The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood – rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky – they all turn out in one day.
David ByrneI have been a firm believer in the federal structure of our country as enshrined in the Constitution.
Narendra ModiBefore I became a chief minister, I never thought that one day I’d be the chief minister.
Narendra ModiIt’s been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: ‚I’m going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.‘ You’ve just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.
John KennedyThe artist part of me always wants to be appreciated. I read every review. But I never wanted to seek validation by awards or anything controlled by politics.
Nipsey HussleUnlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.
Nelson MandelaNobody is above the law. Imagine if there allegations against Modi and he is the Prime Minister. Should the case not be pursued just because he has become the PM. It should not be so that it should be stopped. I am not above the law.
Narendra ModiBy what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?
Abraham LincolnPeople make a big fuss over you when you’re President. But I’m very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn’t go to my head.
Jimmy CarterIf Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
James MadisonBehind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.
Theodore RooseveltI’m not a politician. And I don’t want to be.
Dolly PartonPolitical necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.
George Bernard ShawFree government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.
Herbert HooverI have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.
Vivienne WestwoodTo announce that there must be no criticism of the president… is morally treasonable to the American public.
Theodore RooseveltWar is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.
Carl von ClausewitzThe United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.
Fidel CastroTo suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
James MadisonThe White House is the finest prison in the world.
Harry S. TrumanPoliticians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
AristotleAt the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
Booker T. WashingtonA government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
George Bernard ShawIn the same way the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream of flowing, it is God’s nature to keep His promises. Therefore, go immediately to His throne and say, ‚Do as You promised.‘
Charles SpurgeonI told y’all I didn’t vote, right? But if I would’ve voted, I would’ve voted for Trump.
Kanye WestThe practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
Benjamin DisraeliNo man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent.
Abraham LincolnI kept a very full diary of my relationship with Nixon, for some strange reason, until he became president.
Billy GrahamI believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.
Franklin D. RooseveltYou can’t just have slogans, you can’t just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it’s going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in.
Colin PowellA good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can govern. But what is the best that we can offer to those who govern? Prayer!
Pope FrancisGovernment’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.
Ronald ReaganOnce upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.
Herbert HooverI found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.
Narendra ModiDemocracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
AristotleI don’t like politicians, and I don’t like politics. I definitely don’t want to be associated with any of them.
Steven WrightPolitics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
Winston ChurchillNow that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
Oscar WildeThere’s no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
Will RogersA politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
E. E. CummingsLoyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.
Mark TwainLife in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.
Thomas SowellIt is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Douglas AdamsBut do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no.
Barack ObamaA lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.
Clint EastwoodThe more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.
Thomas SowellI do have a political agenda. It’s to have as few regulations as possible.
Dan QuayleReal politics are the possession and distribution of power.
Benjamin DisraeliNo party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy – well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I’m President, I never will.
Barack ObamaI’m going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you’re not going to believe it.
George H. W. BushSocialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
Thomas SowellI think our democracy has it exactly right: two terms, eight years. It’s enough. Because it’s important to have one foot in reality when you have access to this kind of power.
Michelle ObamaNobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we’ve got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.
Barack ObamaI can’t ever remember sitting around and saying, ‚gosh let’s hurry up and get these debates going, that’ll win it for me.‘ Nope.
George H. W. BushIt is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.
Dalai LamaWhat Britain needs is an iron lady.
Margaret ThatcherOne of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.
Margaret ThatcherA politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who’s been dead for 15 years.
Harry S. TrumanI think the American people, with some justification, think that most politicians live in la-la land.
John KennedyI don’t like to see a president who is just out campaigning all year long or for the last four years. I’d like to see somebody who’s going in the office. In fact, I’d like to not see them because that way you’d be sure that they’d be working.
Clint Eastwood