Politician Quotes

No nation has the right to make decisions for another nation; no people for another people.

My only counsel to Ireland is that in order to become deeply Irish, she must become European.

For six years profound silence was mistaken for profound wisdom.

Alben W. Barkley

A government should do what it should be doing, and act when it should be acting in critical circumstances.

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

Ronald Reagan…is attempting a great breakthrough in political technology—he has been perfecting the Teflon-coated Presidency. He sees to it that nothing sticks to him.

Patricia Schroeder

The first phase of the communist social formation, socialism, is not an embodiment of lifeless historical canons, nor is it a realm of absolute harmony. Socialism is a dynamic and progressively developing social organism.

No other troops in the world but German paratroops could have stood up to such an ordeal and then gone on fighting with such ferocity.

Harold Alexander

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

Knowledge has always been important, of course. The ancient Egyptians did not raise the stones for the pyramids relying on the incantations of their gods. The waters in the irrigation canals of the great Indus Civilisation did not flow according to the laws of ignorance. Knowledge has always been power and wealth.

Mahathir bin Mohamad

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.

How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the test of ridicule? - Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury

When I was a high school government teacher, I used to remind my students that TO VOTE IS TO HAVE A VOICE. That simple idea is the cornerstone of our democratic process. During my eight years as secretary of state, nothing has made me more proud than the fact that we have set all-time records for both voter registration and voting. … As Election Day approaches, I urge every Iowan to use your voice, to make yourself heard as a citizen of the United States and a proud Iowan. Please vote today. You truly hold the key to leading this state forward.

Tonight, I also want to say that I'm also thinking about my mother and father. I know my mother would be completely over the moon about this. I think my dad would too. I'm sorry he couldn't see this. This really was his life's work but I can say this: I know how proud he'd be of the province we all love.

Good government is good politics and politics is good government.

Richard J. Daley

The archbishop [Archbishop Runcie] is usually to be found nailing his colors to the fence.

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

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

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

Scipio Africanus

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

Missiles may kill terrorists. But I am convinced that good governance is what will kill terrorism.

Those corporations that continue to invest in new fossil fuel exploration, new fossil fuel exploitation, are really in flagrant breach of their fiduciary duty because the science is abundantly clear that this is something we can no longer do.

Christiana Figueres

In our country, we do sex. But we don't want to talk about it and that is why we have a billion population.

Anbumani Ramadoss

Nurses, as the key health professionals, are in a unique position to act as powerful advocates for a healthy planet.... As nurses and midwives already constitute up to 80% of the qualified health workforce in most national health systems, they represent a potentially powerful force for bringing about the necessary changes to meet the needs of Health for All in the 21st century. Indeed, their contribution to health services covers the whole spectrum of health care... It is clear that nurses are the backbone of most health care teams.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

Recalling some of the most spectacular horrors of history - the burning of heretics and witches at the stake, the wholesale massacre of heathens, and other no less repulsive manifestations of Christian civilization in Europe and elsewhere - modern man is filled with pride in the progress accomplished, in one line at least, since the end of the dark ages of religious fanaticism.