Politics Quotes

We must consult our means rather than our wishes.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

We know we only have about half of our population that’s voting.

If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else’s expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.

There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.

Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.

Those who made the decisions with imperfect knowledge will be judged in hindsight by those with considerably more information at their disposal and time for reflection.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.

No professional politician is ever actually in favor of public economy. It is his implacable enemy, and he knows it. All professional politicians are dedicated wholeheartedly to waste and corruption. They are the enemies of every decent man.