Politics Quotes - Page 4

To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

It is by the goodness of god that in our country we have those 3 unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible to any public office of trust or profit in the Republic. But I do not repine, for I am a subject of it only by force of arms.

The French have a new president, the British will soon have a new P.M., and we envy them as we endure the endless wait for this small dim man to go back to Texas and resume his life.

When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it'll be called rent-a-spine

No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Guns are our friends because in a country without guns, I'm what's known as "prey." All females are.

I'm a Christian first, and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don't you ever forget it. You know who else was kind of "divisive" in terms of challenging the status quo and the powers-that-be of his day? Jesus Christ.

Listen, Peaches, trickery is what humans are all about," said the voice of Maurice. "They're so keen on tricking one another all the time that they elect governments to do it for them.

People often ask me where I stand politically. It's not that I disagree with Bush's economic policy or his foreign policy, it's that I believe he was a child of Satan sent here to destroy the planet Earth. Little to the left.

Sir, pay no attention to the people who say the glass is half empty, because 32% means it's 2/3 empty. There's still some liquid in that glass is my point, but I wouldn't drink it. The last third is usually backwash.
(Said to President Bush at the White House Correspondents Dinner)

I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.