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Quotes by Politician


"We must make a radical turn, at 360 degrees."


"Some guys spend days looking for something they lost. I never seem to have anything that if I lost it I'd care too much."

"Probably my worst quality is that I get very passionate about what I think is right."

"We use a lot of source music on some shows and none on others."

"Important principles may, and must, be inflexible."

"My view is that while you do occasionally have differences you ought to have a process where you can sit down and talk about things. How else do you solve problems?"


"If the massive invasion is not stopped, we are going to be flooded to the extent that we will drift into third world status. For our children and for our grandchildren, we cannot fail on this issue."

"If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work."

"I'm carrying so much pork, I'm beginning to get trichinosis."

"Globalisation makes it clear that social responsibility is required not only of governments, but of companies and individuals. All sources must interact in order to reach the MDGs."

"Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail."

"I think the elections have gone well, although there is so much insecurity in Iraq. So far during the counting of ballots, there has not been a significant complaint. We have to wait to see what the outcome of the counting is."

"Global warming is not a conqueror to kneel before - but a challenge to rise to. A challenge we must rise to."

"We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices."

"In a way, the popularity of Corona came too fast for its own good, initially. We took a few steps back."


"The USA experiences the crisis of ideological and moral values."

"A farce or comedy is best played, a tragedy is best read at home."

"I'm tired of the whole anti gun thing. Saying that Guns cause Murders is like saying Steering Wheels cause car wrecks."

"Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters."

"In my experience of these things, parties which shout about dirty tricks and the like tend to do so because they fear a direct hit in some vulnerable part of their political anatomy."


"Christian virtues unite men. Racism separates them."

"So I think that I can say, as the President of Poland, we're proud that I am coming from Poland, which is different and what's more important, much better than before."

"I have always been honest about my recollection of events."

"In terms of development of the company, the vast majority of our sales are in the Far East and we will expect to strengthen our activities there, perhaps even moving some of our engineering activities abroad."

"What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again."

"I have grown up in the bright light of America."


"This Congress has promised all manner of border security and port security to the tune of billions of dollars... yet we have - to date - funded our promises for port security at only $900 million. That's quite a distance between what we say and what we actually do."

"By analogy, if we were to develop a soccer team, then we would not invite basketball and volleyball players to the try outs. We would invite soccer players to apply."

"Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty."

"We are also looking to Canada as we continue to integrate the North American energy market."


"Being accused of enthusiasm is something I'll never live down."

"I have always advocated for funding and programs that increase our productivity and competitiveness."

"Iraq may get peace and stability through restoring it's sovereignty under participation of all Iraqi factions and sectarian groups, who must rebuild a new democratic, free and independent Iraq."

"A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people."

"Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed."


"I support non-discrimination for homosexuals, but I think, or at least I have the right to think - without saying whether I think it or not - I have the right to think, along with the catechism of the Catholic Church, that homosexuality is morally wrong."


"It is always the village women who drive these things."

"Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will."

"We should remember the campaign advertising will be only a smaller portion of the President's total exposure."

"We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women's rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics. No, this movement also contains a more profound spiritual and moral aspect."

"I am resigning because my secret leaves the governor's office vulnerable."

"In this generation, the issue pressing that question on our consciences is the issue of abortion."

"I don't want anybody suspecting I am some sheep and part of the Washington D.C. establishment."

"African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college."

"Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi."

"Nothing in life and nothing that we do is risk-free."

"The U.S. cannot impose freedom, security, and unity in Iraq by force."
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