Politician Quotes

You must remember that we persecute nobody for religion. We regard religion as an error and fight it with education.

Mikhail Kalinin

My mother is a great hunter — she usually shoots our Thanksgiving turkey.

Kirsten Gillibrand

Time after time, on matters great and small, we are still standing on the sidelines, mutely accepting what is decided elsewhere instead of raising our voices and making our own choices. Scotland's much vaunted partnership of Jonah and the whale.

The first and second laws of thermodynamics are of course known to us as well as the Ten Commandments, and probably obeyed more consistently.

The double jeopardy of being black and female in a racist and sexist society may well make one less afraid of the sanctions against success. A non-subservient black woman is by definition a transgressive- she is the ultimate outsider.

Mamphela Ramphele

I have long believed that women should play a much bigger part in our affairs.

I'd like them (Mainland Chinese) to live here (Kinmen) too. I hope someday they can buy property here and their children could come to school here.

Most of the egg production in this country sadly is now infected with salmonella.

Trial by jury, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, will be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.

Thomas Denman, 1st Baron Denman

The main guarantor of Ukraine is the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Petro Poroshenko

It is a common happening that those in power, as their tenure of office continues, find themselves less and less able to contemplate relinquishing it.

They may the better fish in the water when it is troubled.

Richard Grafton

He was uniformly of an opinion which, though not a popular one, he was ready to aver, that the right of governing was not property, but a trust.

Charles James Fox

We don't know the path yet. But that's because we haven't blazed the trail. And I think you all know that I know a little bit about finding one's way through the dark.

What is happening and what may happen in the Nagorno-Karabakh and all the occupied lands is our internal affair. No international organization or country can interfere with our internal affair

Enhanced interactions and cooperation between China and the United States serve the interests of our two peoples and are conducive to world peace and development. We should stay firmly rooted in the present while looking ahead to the future, and view and approach China-U.S. relations from a strategic and long-term perspective. We should, on the basis of the principles set forth in the three Sino-U.S. joint communiqués, respect each other as equals and promote closer exchanges and cooperation. This will enable us to make steady progress in advancing constructive and cooperative China-U.S. relations, and bring more benefits to our two peoples and people of the world.

I offer my noble respects to the heroic Korean people who, despite the difficult living conditions caused by life-threatening sanctions and blockade, have firmly trusted, absolutely supported and dynamically implemented our Party's line of simultaneously promoting the two fronts.

Never give your enemies any more reason than they already have to go on hating you.

This president is a miserable failure on foreign policy and on the economy and he's got to be replaced.

Abolitionism proposes to destroy the right and extinguish the principle of self-government for which our forefathers waged a seven years' bloody war, and upon which our system of free government is founded.

Stephen A. Douglas

Geology stands to engineering in the same relation as faith to works.... The success or failure of an undertaking depends largely upon the physical conditions which fall within the province of geology, and the "works" of the engineer should be based on the "faith" of the geologist.

Local defense will always be important. But there is no local defense which alone will contain the mighty land power of the Communist world. Local defense must be reinforced by the further deterrent of massive retaliatory power.

John Foster Dulles

Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.

I think I can best do my work as a head of a family, as a nurturer, for the family, meaning a nurturer for Pittsburgh, and in that sense what we do here can be applicable in many places in the world.

Teresa Heinz Kerry

Love is meant for husbands, but my love for Hitler is stronger, I would give my life for it.