Politician Quotes

There was reason to fear that the Revolution, like Saturn, might devour in turn each one of her children.

Pierre Vergniaud

In our warm climate, we have not got the same incentive to exertion and we may never be able to attain the same level of prosperity as Western people.

Mokshagundam Visveshvaraya

If any man will draw up his case, and put his name at the foot of the first page, I will give him an immediate reply. Where he compels me to turn over the sheet, he must wait my leisure.

John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich

The parliamentary system is the most responsive and responsible system of government. Let us not allow it to go into disuse.

The horse on the treadmill may be very discontented, but he is not disposed to tell his troubles, for he cannot stop to talk.

You can't demand generational change on the one hand and expect 40 years of experience on the other.

Federica Mogherini

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.

India has been a friend of Sri Lanka for a long time. That is why I selected India for the first state visit after my election as the President

Maithripala Sirisena

The problem with guns that are hidden is you can't see their smoke.

I ask you to remember that the Japanese troops are a strictly disciplined force and perform their duties with as little harmfulness as possible.

The British had a poor record of retreating from colonies. There are more than ten years of transition period before our resumption of sovereignty. Will the British be irresponsible and "mess up" Hong Kong like comrade Deng Xiaoping said? We should be on guard. This is our major consideration for setting up the Joint Liaison Group. Surely, it will be beneficial for both countries, as other things may need to be settled by the two sides.

In a meeting with Xu Jiatun

To be told that mathematics is good training for the mind does not insure either the intelligent or ardent pursuit of this branch of science.

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

No man should live where he can hear his neighbor's dog bark.

Nathaniel Macon

Method is everything in archaeology, my boy. Why, we always deal with our finds in order.

Sir Joseph Scott, 1st Baronet

I am against this Treaty not because I am a man of war but because I am a man of peace. I am against this Treaty because it will not end the centuries of conflict between the two nations of Great Britain and Ireland.

Éamon de Valera

Australians will stand beside our own to help and defend her to our last man and our last shilling.

He was of opinion that we should be able to convince the general English public, the working man particularly, that the reforms that I advanced would be far more beneficial to the English nation, particularly to the working man... If India is prosperous and rich, she would buy far more English produce and give work proportionately to the working man.

Dadabhai Naoroji

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

We are talking about the biggest foreign policy mistake since Suez.

On the Iraq war

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.

The Labour Party owes more to Methodism than to Marxism.

Morgan Phillips

I have always perceived, or nearly so, the defects of those I love; and such defects are the only ones I can see clearly. But for the want of archangels, we must love imperfect creatures.

Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

We ceased to deal seriously with mobile combat. We relegated to oblivion the fundamentals of combat-in-depth tactics and of combined arms maneuvers which had been widespread before the Finnish campaign.

Sergei Biriuzov

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