Politics Quotes

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.

I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.

The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.

So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.

I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.

Voting is a civic sacrament.

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world's premier space exploration agency, and we are well served by politicians working to keep it that way, instead of turning it into a mere jobs program, or worse, cutting its budget.

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

Man is by nature a political animal.

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

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.