Politician Quotes

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

Massoud Barzani

I am king of my own little island, and that's all I've ever wanted to be.

Joseph Roberts Smallwood

In the year 2000, when he said one farm, one farmer, he was vilified. For 20 years they loved Mugabe because they didn't take the land from the whites.

In a thousand years we shall all forget The things that trouble us now.

Adam Lindsay Gordon

I'm a media tart. You tell me one politician that's not a media tart, tell me one that's not.

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

Jesus Christ was not a conservative. That's a racing certainty.

[National Socialism] has survived the flames of war and the tempest of vilification because, when war has done its worst and vilification has run its entire gamut, National Socialism remains, in the final analysis, synonymous with higher man's will to survive, his instinct for health and strength, and his desire for beauty in life; and, as long as that will, that instinct, and that desire remain on this earth, the creed of National Socialism will remain, indestructible.

There are pictures by Titian so steeped in golden splendors, that they look as if they would light up a dark room like a solar lamp.

George Stillman Hillard

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

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

Scipio Africanus

If making sure that workers get out of poverty would severely impact the economy, then maybe we don't need this economy.

The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude.

Too many Oregonians know the heartbreak of a jobless economic recovery. To create new, high-paying jobs, we need investment in Main Street as well as Wall Street.

What I have signed I will stand by, in the belief that the end of the conflict of centuries is at hand.

Arthur Griffith

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

If we enjoy the benefits of peace, it is only because we have an excellent armed force and a fine socialist economy. Let us exert all efforts so that our further development may be strong and mighty, so that our numerous enemies may think well and long before they decide to attack our fatherland, and so that if they attack, they will quickly regret it.

Kliment Voroshilov

To Chris Bryant who posted his photo wearing only underwear on a gay dating website while being a Member of Parliament:

Ah, Bryant, there you are. Nearly didn't recognize you with your clothes on.

Nicholas Soames

History, in a democratic age, tends to become a series of popular apologies, and is inclined to assume that the people can do no wrong.

Albert C. Pollard

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

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

Our so-called Society people, instead of going in for sport, persist in holding conversations in their drawing rooms, generally in a foreign tongue. They engage nurse maids, personal maids and governesses of all nationalities except Italian. They play poker and bridge with the accompanying drinks, certainly not Italian brands!

Achille Starace

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

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

A tired flying bird
Has to perch somewhere to rest.
So should my old knees.

Dilip Sankarreddy