Politician Quotes

Some political leaders were trying to spread the poison of regionalism and casteism for narrow political gain.

He [Nicolae Ceaușescu] was a hard man who really wanted to win, all the time. He wanted to win at chess. It's well known that in chess when you touch a piece, you've got to move it. That's in the rules. But Ceausescu would touch a piece and see that it was a bad move and say, "No, no, wait, wait. I haven't thought long enough."

Gheorghe Apostol

Chicago has been characterized as the most segregated city in the United States, a city they said could never change.

Harold Washington

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

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

My hon. Friend must be aware of the words used by the Chancellor on Tuesday, when he said that, this year, the Government expect to make a surplus of £14 billion—part of which will be used to pay off the national debt. In those circumstances, would it not be more appropriate and beneficial to the rest of the world if more money were given for overseas aid and to assist the very poor countries in the usary levels of debt repayments that they are forced into at present?

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.

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.

If the present White House leadership runs the gauntlet of common sense and the people's will for peace and challenges us by starting MX missile deployment, then the Soviet Union will respond by deploying a new intercontinental ballistic missile of the same class, with its characteristics in no way inferior to those of the MX.

Dmitriy Ustinov

We are Republicans and don't propose to leave our party and identify ourselves with the party whose antecedents are rum, Romanism, and rebellion.

Samuel Dickinson Burchard

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

Cameron's empty idea seems to be 'let's hug a hoodie', whatever they have done.

Of the text of a forthcoming speech by David Cameron

I've always found that you can control people better if you don't see too much of them.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Natural dignity of mind or manners can never be concealed; it ever commands our respect: assumed dignity, or importance, excites our ridicule and contempt.

Joseph R. Bartlett

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.

In distinguishing between Islamic teachings and social taboos, we must remember that Islam forbids injustice; Injustice against people, against nations, against women. It shuns race, color, and gender as a basis of distinction amongst fellowmen. It enshrines piety as the sole criteria for judging humankind.

It is only the fear of God, can deliver us from the fear of man.

John Witherspoon

…Inner peace is important, but I have always felt that living a daily life with peace is the end. So in reality individual peace and global peace are not separate. They are one and the same.

Ideas that are at odds with the inherited collective wisdom of antiquity are always, on their face suspect.

Andrew Thomas (American politician)

We believe the problem between ourselves and Eritrea will have to be resolved through dialogue, but it takes two to tango.

Why should I tell you where I am going to get funds from? If I were to do that then all the vested interests would get alerted. You must be aware that railways are full of such elements and my fight is against them.

Lalu Prasad Yadav

I have no regret that someone openly identified with terrorist organisations and activities meets his death the same way.

The dominion of the sea, as it is an ancient and undoubted right of the crown of England, so it is the best security of the land…The wooden walls are the best walls of this kingdom.

Wooden walls = ships

Thomas Coventry

Tax reductions of the poor is an hollow idea. The critics of the decrease in taxation is based on harmful envy.

Culture is a more effective weapon than guns for the purpose of domination. For it was scientific, technical and technological culture which produced the guns. The prerequisite of any domination, exploitation and oppression is the denial to the oppressed man or people of his or their human attributes and therefore, in the first instance, cultural activities.

Ahmed Sékou Touré