politics Quotes. politics Quotations Interactive Database.

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"The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary."	Alexis de Tocqueville
"In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships."	Alexis de Tocqueville
"Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer but the right answer."	John F. Kennedy
"The days of looking the other way while despotic regimes trample human rights, rob their nations' wealth, and then excuse their failings by feeding their people a steady diet of anti-Western hatred are over."	Dick Cheney
"Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative."	Kurt Vonnegut
"The more you read and observe about this Politics thing you got to admit that each party is worse than the other."	Will Rogers
"Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with."	Will Rogers
"If you look back on the '60s and think there was more good than harm, you're probably a Democrat. If you think there was more harm than good, you're probably a Republican."	Bill Clinton
"The Vice Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does."	Bill Vaughan
"One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'."	Dan Quayle
"Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process."	John F. Kennedy
"There is -- in world affairs -- a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly."	Dwight Eisenhower
"The White House: I don't know whether it's the finest public housing in America or the crown jewel of the prison system."	Bill Clinton
"It takes a long time to turn a big country around."	Bill Clinton
"One thing I have learned about the presidency is that whatever shortcomings you have, people are going to notice them -- and whatever strengths you have, you're going to need them."	George W. Bush
"A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth."	Adlai Stevenson
"Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary."	Robert Louis Stevenson
"Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"	Ronald Reagan
"Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence."	Ronald Reagan
"You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream -- the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order -- or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism."	Ronald Reagan