Politician Quotes

The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure and pleasure my business.

No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.

Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell

No Western nation has to build a wall round itself to keep its people in.

Margaret Thatcher

Of the multitude who throughout history have spoken for human dignity in times of great suffering and loss, no voice is more compelling than that of Anne Frank.

John F. Kennedy

In general I esteem it a good maxim, that the best way to preserve the confidence of the people durably is to promote their true interest

George Washington

There are only two sorts of people in life you can trust – good Christians and good Communists.

It is with regret that I pronounce the fatal truth: Louis must die that the country may live.

Maximilien Robespierre

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.

Whoever refuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to new risks of infection.

Richard von Weizsäcker

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is—the power of lighting its own fire.

Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought of half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

Charlotte Whitton

Now, at a time of Russian aggression against everything that has made Europe peaceful and united, everyone sees how important it is to maintain alliances and partnerships, to strengthen our own security and to take care of the security of neighbors.

Volodymyr Zelensky

As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.

Since we are not in the League of Nations in any case, we do not devote our attention to reflecting on its internal reforms.

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

Endorsing Kamala Harris for president:

Michelle and I couldn't be prouder to endorse you and to do everything we can to get you through this election and into the Oval Office.

If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.

Alan K. Simpson

The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.

A large percentage of those living in developed societies are told what brand of soda they should drink, what cigarettes they should smoke, what clothes and shoes they should wear, what they should eat and what brand of food they should buy. Their political ideas are supplied in the same way. Every year a trillion dollars is spent on advertising.

The only way I can lose this election is if I'm caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy.

Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.

Ibrahim Babangida

Peace, like war, can succeed only where there is a will to enforce it, and where there is available power to enforce it.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Something is wrong with America. I wonder sometimes what people are thinking about or if they're thinking at all.

We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.