top of page
Politics Quotes


"Many of America's and New York's sons and daughters are around the world fighting for the freedoms that the Statue of Liberty stands for."


"Politicians were famous for double-speak and were consummate liars. That's why George W. Bush had to be their favorite president. It's easier to commit a fraud when the actor believes his lie to the point of a conviction."


"Politics is a people business. I like people."


"I do care about the mercury contamination which this country will be experiencing because of the attempted sellout by this administration to special interests which will result in more mercury in the blood of young children in America."


"I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course."



"If a trip is worth taking, members of Congress should be prepared to justify paying for it out of their office accounts."


"The attack of John Brown upon Harper's Ferry came upon Virginia like a clap of thunder out of a clear sky."


"We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation."


"Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics."


"First, the firearms industry has been around and has been respected for generations. They provide a valuable service and a highly desirable product to millions of sportsmen and supporters of those second amendment rights."



"I call it people-to-people politics and that's what politics should be about, reaching out and helping one another and touching one another about what we're going to do."


"Banning guns addresses a fundamental right of all Americans to feel safe."



"I didn't want to engage in a campaign where I was defending myself on those issues at every turn, so I just decided that I'd switch and run as a Republican."



"I'm disappointed that Senator DeWine once again chose to go along with his party leaders and their big corporate lobbyist supporters. Ohio deserves a Senator who will be more than a rubber stamp."


"There was no testimony of conspiracy - Oswald's efforts to get in touch with the Soviets and with the Cuban Fair Play groups in New York were rebuffed, rebuffed at every step."


"What's going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We're getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when you're in charge."


"If there is a ground zero in the cultural wars, it is Missouri, a state where pro-life groups are strong and well organized and their agenda dominates local politics."


"I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the pay for use binary shareware programs."


"He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls."


"When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man."


"We have drained common sense out of our politics. The more we focus on tactics and games, the more good people check out and give up."


"Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise."


"Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions."


"I had hoped that the current presidential campaign debates might educate the public as to what is really involved in the ongoing controversy over campaign financing."



"To me, to be a conservative means to conserve the good parts of America and to conserve our Constitution."


"But I make the observation that no one of us would do things exactly alike."


"And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians."


"We welcome, we welcome this good cooperation between Russia and NATO."


"The important things that in a campaign we talk about, let us not forget that once the election is over."


"I had taken on the color of the climate around me and had driven back all the emotion that rose from the Brooklyn streets so that I could belong to the exclusive club of Congress."


"It is my absolute intent to hold the line on taxes."


"Working Americans who believe in our country and who believe in our Constitution are saying, 'Enough is enough!'"


"There was a very convincing argument made that the extremists have won and the aggression is now supported by the majority, therefore fighting until surrender was the only alternative."


"There have been major disagreements within the European Union."
bottom of page
