Politician Quotes - Page 14

• I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops.

  Tom Clancy

  Baby, Liars, Mean

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• It is not defeat that destroys you,it is being demoralized by defeat that destroy you.

  Imran Khan

  Deep Thought, Defeat, Destroying

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• It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.

  Jesse Jackson

  Life, Christian, Religious

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  I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Money, Believe, Army

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• In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.4, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I will make such a wonderful India that all Americans will stand in line to get a visa for India

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Powerful, Patriotic

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• If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else's expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves

  Thomas Sowell

  Giving, Voting, Promise

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• The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Inspirational, Country, Believe

  Nods and Becks (1944) p. 74

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• Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.

  Oscar Ameringer

  Life, Witty, Art

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  Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

  Xunzi

  Inspiring, Leadership, Teacher

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• Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Trust, Country, Witty

  "Common Ground: How to Stop the Partisan War that is Destroying America". Book by Cal Thomas and Bob Beckel, 2007.

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• Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

  Abraham Lincoln

  4th Of July, Patriotic, America

  Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pa., 19 Nov. 1863.

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• The only difference between dreams and achievements is hard work.

  Chris Bollwage

  Motivational, Dream, Work

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• I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Running, Respect, Romance

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• Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers.

  Ron Paul

  Mean, Simple, Generations

  "Deficits Make You Poorer" by Ron Paul, www.lewrockwell.com. March 15, 2005.

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• Men must be aggressive for what is right if government is to be saved from men who are aggressive for what is wrong.

  Robert M. La Follette, Sr.

  Men, Evil, Aggressive

  "The Perils of Passive Citizenship". Robert M. La Follette, Sr.'s speech in Washington, D.C., August 11, 1924.

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• You begin your journey not knowing where it will take you. You have plans, you have dreams, but every now and again you have to take uncharted roads, face impassable mountains, cross treacherous rivers, be blocked by landslides and earthquakes. That's the way my life has been.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Dream, Adversity, Journey

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  If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

  Ronald Reagan

  Inspirational, God, Country

  Remarks at a Dallas Ecumenical Prayer Breakfast, delivered 23 August 1984 at Reunion Arena, Dallas, TX

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• Born in the same land, we ought to live as brothers, doing to each other all the good we can, and not listening to wicked men, who may endeavor to make us enemies. By living in peace, we can help and prosper one another; by waging war, we can kill and destroy many on both sides; but those who survive will not be the happier for that.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace, Brother, War

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives!

  Shimon Peres

  Life, Death, Positive Thinking

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• One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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  The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Freedom, Independent

  Sir Winston Churchill (1965). “The Churchill Wit”

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• My main mission when I became Prime Minister, was to keep Singapore going and Singapore has been kept going. So, I'm happy with what I've done for Singapore.

  Goh Chok Tong

  Moving On, Happy, Moving Forward

  Interview With Lorraine Hahn, www.nas.gov.sg. January 24, 2004.

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• Poor Mexico. So far from God and so close to the United States.

  Porfirio Diaz

  God, Usa, United States

  "The Quote Verifier: Who Said What, Where, and When". p. 387. Book by Ralph Keyes, New York City: St. Martin's Griffin, 2006.

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• The interesting thing about coaching is that you have to trouble the comfortable, and comfort the troubled

  Ric Charlesworth

  Funny, Change, Sports

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