916 quotes found
“Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meannesses for the public good.”
“Politics is war without bloodshed and war is politics with blood.”
“This proves what a purifying effect women would have on politics.”
“Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens then everybody disagrees.”
“This organization (United Nations) is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn't created to take you to heaven.”
“Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.”
“It will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe: Europe will be united by the Chinese.”
“There is no excitement anywhere in the world short of war to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.”
“A dictatorship is a country where they have taken the politics out of politics.”
“Vote for the man who promises least he'll be the least disappointing.”
“Someone asked me... how I felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell - Abraham Lincoln. They asked him how he felt once after an unsuccessful election. He said h...”
“Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.”
“There are two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible.”
“The lady's not for turning.”
“I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interests.”
“In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.”
“In order to become the master the politician poses as the servant.”
“You know very well that whether you are on page one or page thirty depends on whether they fear you. It is just as simple as that.”
“If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches they will take sandwiches.”
“Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by mself.”
