Politician Quotes - Page 18

• As long as we continue to think we will be happy in the future, we will never be happy in the moment, and that is the same as saying that we will never be happy. If we think that our lives will be better when we get that better job or retire, stay or go, gain or lose weight, or when our children grow and leave or come back, we are putting off the happiness that there is in today.

  Aminu Kano

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

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  Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

  Colin Powell

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

  Colin L. Powell (1995). “My American Journey”, Random House Incorporated

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• The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

  Tony Benn

  House, Politics, Lord

  In Observer 4 Feb. 1962

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• I'm not a politician. And I don't want to be.

  Dolly Parton

  Want

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• I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.

  Winston Churchill

  Politics, Opponents, Felt

  Winston Churchill's speech at the Institute of Journalists Dinner in London (November 17,1906), as quoted in "Churchill by Himself: The Definitive Collection of Quotations" edited by Richard Langworth (p. 392), 2008.

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• Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Trying My Hardest, Political

  Mahatma Gandhi (1951). “A Day Book of Thoughts from Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians are to patriotism.

  John Haynes Holmes

  Priests

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  I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Freedom, War, Gun

  Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “Paine and Jefferson on Liberty”, p.89, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Confidence

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• It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.

  Millard Fillmore

  Change, Mistake, Presidential

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• We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Society, Poverty, Poor

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• There are two ideas of government. There are those who believe that, if you will only legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, their prosperity will leak through on those below. The DEMOCRATIC idea, however, has been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous, their prosperity will find its way up through every class which rests upon them

  William Jennings Bryan

  Believe, Government, Class

  Speech at Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Ill., 8 July 1896

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• I accept that people are going to call me awful things every day, and I will always defend their right to do so.

  Barack Obama

  Acceptance, Rights, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got

  Andrew Young

  Political, Saving, Use

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• The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Business, Military

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The ultimate test of a man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.

  Gaylord Nelson

  Sacrifice, Grandchildren, Men

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• Thomas Jefferson once said. He said , "We should never judge a President by his age, only by his works." And ever since he told me that, I've stopped worrying. There are those who say I've stopped working.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Birthday, Patriotic

  "Ronald Reagan".

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• You didn't elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.

  Barack Obama

  Truth, African American, President

  Second Democratic Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 6 September 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina

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• The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Honesty, Integrity, Philosophy

  "Stop the Madness". "The Globe and Mail" Newspaper, July 6, 2002.

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  Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.

  Winston Churchill

  Business, Humorous, Hypocrite

  Winston Churchill (1952). “War Speeches: From September 11, 1943 to August 16, 1945”

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• When our memories outweigh our dreams, it is then that we become old.

  William J. Clinton

  Life, Inspiring, Dream

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• A guy named Adolf Hitler won an election in 1932 ... and 50 million people died as a result ... what I learned as a little kid is that politics is, in fact, very important.

  Bernie Sanders

  Kids, People, Political

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• World events do not occur by accident. They are made to happen, whether it is to do with national issues or commerce; and most of them are staged and managed by those who hold the purse strings.

  Denis Healey

  Money, Issues, Political

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• I never thought I'd live to see the day that an American administration would denounce the state of Israel for rebuilding Jerusalem.

  Mike Pence

  Israel, America, Political

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Three strikes' laws make no sense as policy. They are more about the politicians responding to the people's desire to see their fury at social dysfunction reflected in the law. Our sentences are way too long. We need to look at the war on drugs, which is to say we need to look and this is easier said than done. Once again, politically, not an easy lift at all. Nevertheless, our policy is self-defeating. We're not keeping people from using the substances. We're creating a huge black market, just like we did under prohibition, which attracts all kinds of criminal enterprise.

  Glenn Loury

  War, Long, People

  Source: bigthink.com

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