American Politician Quotes

A lot of my measures were embraced in other bills. I don't want to be (like) Kennedy, Rostenkowski … (and) put bad legislation on the books.

Leo Ryan's life and his deeds are about a life that was so much more than Guyana. He was relentless in his search for answers, answers that were not readily available by just asking questions... We remember him today because his story is so much like those of most Americans; we want to believe the best and we sometimes hear the worst.

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

Of the WorldCom collapse:

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

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.

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.

My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden leg after a horse.

John Quincy Adams

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

Nathaniel Macon

... reports about very innocent people being thrown into detention where they could be held for years without any representation or charges is distressing.

When the Republican Party is no longer the party of fiscal conservatism then clearly I would argue that we've lost our way.

We must proceed with a full realization that no statute enacted by man can repeal the inexorable laws of nature.

Warren G. Harding

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'

The countries of the American continent and the adjacent islands are for the United States the natural marts of supply and demand.

Chester A. Arthur

The greatest curse that can befall a free people, is civil war.

Alexander H. Stephens

The Diet Mentality has come about because there is agreement in our society that the only way to lose weight is by dieting. But dieting produces absolutely no permanent, positive results. In fact, it makes you feel worse about yourself and probably does more damage than good to your health.

Fundamentalists tell us to fear the specter of special rights for gay citizens, though of course gay Americans aren't after special rights - merely equal rights. The irony is that special rights actually do exist in this country-for religious groups.

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

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

It was the first airplane... that could make money just by hauling passengers.

Like the turbulent crowd at the rim of an arena, the sea surrounds the lands and awaits the issue of combat. Fretfully the colossus chafes at the margins of battlefields it is eager but impotent to enter.

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