politics Quotes

If everybody that voted in 2008 shows up in 2010, we will win this election. We will win this election.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.