916 quotes found
“He's like a football coach who's smart enough to win the game and dumb enough to think it's important.”
“I pledge you I pledge myself to a new deal for the American people. Let us all here assembled constitute ourselves prophets of a new order of competence and courage. This is a call to arms.”
“A statesman is an easy man He tells his lies by rote A journalist makes up his lies And takes you by the throat So stay at home and drink your beer And let the neighbours vote.”
“Politics is more dangerous than war for in war you are only killed once.”
“As a politician he does everything to keep out of trouble often by not asking questions. However it does bother him that every time the doorbell rings his maid hides in the dryer.”
“Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city it might be better to change the locks.”
“When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become president. I'm beginning to believe it.”
“Unlike Churchill I have no plans to shape history. . . . Socrates gave advice - and they poisoned him.”
“Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.”
“The public is very fickle as I was saying to my cabdriver Gerald Ford.”
“A politician thinks of the next election a statesman of the next generation.”
“Damned Neuters in their Middle way of Steering Are neither Fish nor Flesh nor good Red Herring.”
“Like an armed warrior like a plumed knight James G. Blaine marched down the halls of American Congress and threw his shining lance full and fair against the brazen foreheads of the defamers of his ...”
“Politics is but the common pulsebeat of which revolution is the feverspasm.”
“The statesman shears the sheep the politician skins them.”
“If nominated I will not accept if elected I will not serve.”
