Politics
Arthur C. Clarke on Science Fiction
“Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower on Television
“I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.”
Benjamin Franklin on Government
“There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.”
Thomas Jefferson on Peace
“Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.”
Nancy Astor on Change
“The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything – or nothing.”
Ernest Benn on Politics
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
Herbert Hoover on Honor and Politics
“Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.”
John F. Kennedy on Politics
“The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.”
Winston Churchill on Business
“I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.”
Lester J. Pourciau on Politics
“There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee.”
Charles de Gaulle on Politics
“In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.”
Paul Valery on Politics
“Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.”
George Carlin on Nature
“Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.”
George Carlin on Freedom
“Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?”
Johnny Carson on Politics
“Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn’t grow up can be vice president.”
Daniel Webster on Politics
“A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.”
Mogens Jallberg on Democracy vs. Feudalism
“In democracy it’s your vote that counts; In feudalism it’s your count that votes.”
Douglas Adams on Politics
“Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
George Jean Nathan on Patriotism
“Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.”
Lord Acton on Power
“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
Larry Hardiman on Politics
“The word ‘politics’ is derived from the word ‘poly’, meaning ‘many’, and the word ‘ticks’, meaning ‘blood sucking parasites’.”
Dan Rather on Americans
“Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn’t block traffic.”
Robert Bakker on Taxes
“I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator and name it after the IRS.”
Winston Churchill on Democracy
“It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.”
Aristotle on Democracy
“If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.”