American Politician Quotes

The prosperity of a nation requires the protection of a senate. Hereafter a national senate may require the protection of a national army.

Thomas Francis Meagher

One of the reforms to be carried out during the incoming administration is a change in our monetary and banking laws, so as to secure greater elasticity in the forms of currency available for trade and to prevent the limitations of law from operating to increase the embarrassment of a financial panic.

William Howard Taft

Those not favorable to the money trust could be squeezed out of business and the people frightened into demanding changes in the banking and currency laws which the Money Trust would frame.

Charles August Lindbergh

We come from not being and march toward not being: nothing between two nothings, zero between two zeros, and since between two nothings nothing can be, let's drink to the splendor of not being our bodies.

Julia de Burgos

Christianity depends f1nally on consciousness and experience. From other departments of the mind she may retire at times or seem to, but never from this. Sitting here, if allowed to, on the throne of the soul, she occasionally walks into the other rooms and sets them in order; and accustomed lo her presence, sooner or later the soul finds every department flooded with her light.

Erastus Otis Haven

Political society wants things simple. Political scientists know them to be complex... One could argue that, in part, the leftist impulse is so conspicuous among the educated and well-to-do precisely because they are exposed to more information, and are accordingly forced to choose between living with the strains of complexity, or lapsing into simplism.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Voting and participating in the democratic process are key. The vote is the most powerful nonviolent change agent you have in a democratic society. You must use it because it is not guaranteed. You can lose it.

'Vote early and vote often,' the advice openly displayed on the election banners in one of our northern cities.

William Porcher Miles

They love him most for the enemies he has made.

Edward S. Bragg

One key to successful leadership is continuous personal change. Personal change is a reflection of our inner growth and empowerment.

Robert E. Quinn

You get to the point in your life where everything isn't black and white and good and bad, and you try to do the right thing. Now, you might not like that. You might think me very cynical about that. Well f—- it; I don't care what you think.

No man should live where he can hear his neighbor's dog bark.

Nathaniel Macon

To engage in war is always to pick a wild card. And war must always be the last resort, not a first choice. I truly must question the judgment of any president who can say that a massive, unprovoked military attack on a nation which is over fifty percent children is 'in the highest moral traditions of our country.'

After being asked to stop his long and tedious speech because no one was listening to him:

Never mind, I'm talking to Buncombe.

Buncombe, in North Carolina, was the place Felix represented. He coined the word 'bunk'

This is destined to be a very wealthy portion of the United States, and, if to this we can add the most temperate, nothing will prevent our rising, and becoming a valuable acquisition to the union. Much power now lies in your hands, and, I sincerely hope, we may commence our new career with a law in our statute books, prohibiting the manufacture and sale of ardent spirits in Oregon territory.

George Abernethy

The quality that made him great is that he loved greatly

Whatever theoretical merit there may be to the argument that there is a "right" to rebellion against dictatorial governments is without force where the existing structure of the government provides for peaceful and orderly change.

The man's father is a wonderful human being. I think this guy is a loser.

I believe that every human being has the right to his life and to his liberty, and to act in this world so as to secure his own happiness.

If we have a heart for the magnitudes of life, it will not seem vain to believe that God Himself should guard it.

George A. Smith

I've told Rudy that as long as he returns my phone calls, I'm here to stay. The day he doesn't, I'm gone.

I believe that two of the most essential pillars that prop up totalitarian regimes are the secret police and propaganda. Yet for the sake of market share and profits, leading U.S. companies like Google, Yahoo, Cisco and Microsoft have compromised both the integrity of their product and their duties as responsible corporate citizens. They have aided and abetted the Chinese regime to prop up both of these pillars, propagating the message of the dictatorship unabated and supporting the secret police in a myriad of ways, including surveillance and invasion of privacy, in order to effectuate the massive crackdown on its citizens.

Chris Smith (New Jersey politician)

Of the WorldCom collapse:

In many respects, this case appears to be eerily similar to the accounting hocus-pocus that occurred at Enron.

The American people have the Constitutional right to be wrong.

When you're dealing with people who think that Sponge Bob Square Pants is more important than social security, you have a problem.

Christine Todd Whitman