Politician Quotes

I think it is important for all those young out there, who someday hope to play real football, where you throw it and kick it and run with it and put it in your hands, a distinction should be made that football is democratic, capitalism, whereas soccer is a European socialist sport.

What are we to do then? Shall we remain supine, while these daring strangers are overrunning our fertile plains, and gradually outnumbering and displacing us? Shall these incursions go on unchecked, until we shall become strangers in our own land?

You can't think rationally on an empty stomach, and a whole lot of people can't do it on a full stomach either.

John Reith, 1st Baron Reith

Man is evil, by nature man is a beast. People have to be educated from childhood, from kindergarten, that there should be no hatred.

The politicians of New York…see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy.

William L. Marcy

Ambition is a passion, at once strong and insidious, and is very apt to cheat a man out of his happiness and his true respectability of character

I assumed that some of the gold bars I received were melted gold teeth.

Never less idle than when wholly idle, nor less alone than when wholly alone.

Scipio Africanus

The will of 1.3 billion Chinese people cannot be infringed upon.

There is not, and never was, a greater man than Emil Zatopek.

You don't have to pass an IQ test to be in the Senate.

The stronger his fortresses, the more assiduous must the prince be in protecting them, for on no side does he incur greater risk than on that where he seems most secure.

Giovanni Francesco Lottini

Cadres should be capable of climbing upward and going downward, advancing and retreating, serving as officials and acting as ordinary citizens.

Beware of averages. The average person has one breast and one testicle.

I am told that there is a proverbial phrase among the Inuit: 'a long time ago, in the future.' Let the children see our history, and maybe it will help to shape the future.

Beer does not taste like itself unless it is chasing a dram of neat whisky down the gullet - preferably two drams

Compton Mackenzie

Our epoch has been called the century of work. It is in fact the century of pain, misery and corruption.

I am against driving Israel into the sea. This policy is wrong, illogical, and unreasonable. Why annihilate a people?

Massoud Barzani

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

America betrays its friends. It sets them up and betrays them. I'd rather be America's enemy.

We're going to treat them [FOX News] the way we would treat an opponent. As they are undertaking a war against Barack Obama and the White House, we don't need to pretend that this is the way that legitimate news organizations behave.

It is imperative that there is intervention into our dire situation and treatment... We hope that you will help us. We have been in prison for a long time and we have been cut from our families. No contacts, no phones, no letters. Even the parcels sent to us by our families are not given to us. We need a fair treatment, a fair investigation and finally a fair trial. Please help us

When I pass a belt, I can't resist hitting below it.

As it is our nature to be more moved by hope than fear, the example of one we see abundantly rewarded cheers and encourages us far more than the sight of many who have not been well treated disquiets us.

Francesco Guicciardini

I ask for the movement to continue, for the movement to grow, because last week I got a phone call from Altoona, Pennsylvania, and my election gave somebody else, one more person, hope. And after all, that's what this is all about. It's not about personal gain, not about ego, not about power — it's about giving those young people out there in the Altoona, Pennsylvanias, hope. You gotta give them hope.