"When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency."

Politics, Presidency

26

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency."

Exlpore more Politics quotes

"There is no single truth in a world ruled by many political parties."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Politics, Truth, Power, Regret, Wisdom

"Democracy is good, but it is not good for an uneducated dogmatic society. Often, that society does not know how to choose wisely."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Politics, Democracy, Society, Education, Wisdom

"A country that publicly threatens to completely destroy another nation should not be surprised when a preemptive surprise attack occurs from that nation and their allies."

Steven Magee, British Author

Politics, War, Defense, Conflict

"If a politician obtained a great wealth after he has been elected, his being an immoral corrupt man is not a possibility but it is a self-evident reality!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Politics, Truth, Regret, Power, Inspirational

"The mass communications that could enable our politics for good have instead turned it into a bland conglomeration of stinted opinion cloaked in the occasional media frenzy of blame or denial."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

Politics, Media, Blame, Opinion

"We are a little land. And little lands on the borders of a great empire were always hateful to the lords of the great empire. He longs to blot them out, gobble them up."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Politics, Land, Empire, Hatred, Longing

"If a country is not governed well, all sort of disasters will become a routine of that country!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Politics, Truth, Regret, Power, Inspirational

"Some politicians are much noisier than the dogs! Just like teaching a dog how to hush, public must likewise teach those politicians to shush!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Politics, Truth, Power, Regret, Today

"Is your country under great dangers? Light is gone and the darkness is everywhere? You don't know whom to trust and what to do? Read the history of your country! There you will find out the best map for the way out!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Politics, Truth, Inspirational, Wisdom, Power

"Here is a tragicomic reality of all the regimes: People work hard to feed their thief politicians, their thief kings and thief queens or their thief presidents! And therefore the tragicomic reality of all the times is this: There can exist no thieves without the support of people!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Politics, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Regret

Explore more quotes by Harry S. Truman

"A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants."

Office

"Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place."

Politics

"You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break."

Man

"It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours."

Economy

"A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader."

Leadership

"It sure is hell to be president."

Hell

"Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever apologize for anything."

Battle

"Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art."

Life

"Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend."

Friendship

"I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount."

Nation