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"Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides."
Margaret Thatcher
"How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheeses?"
Charles de Gaulle
"Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall."
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad."
Henry Kissinger
"It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellow men."
George MacDonald
"Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book."
Ronald Reagan
"A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter facts of life in bandages of self-illusion."
Henry Mencken
"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
"A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues."
Theodore Roosevelt
"The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to."
Thomas Jefferson
"The reformer is always right about what is wrong. He is generally wrong about what is right."
GK Chesterton
"The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary."
Alexis de Tocqueville
"Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God."
Benjamin Franklin
"In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman."
Margaret Thatcher
"In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office."
Ambrose Bierce
"Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend."
Margaret Thatcher
"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer, but imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master."
Jesse Jackson
"Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence."
Ronald Reagan
"The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery."
Dave Barry
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