Category: Famous Quotes

We hang petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.Aesop, Greek slave & fable author

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.Plato, ancient Greek Philosopher

Politicians are the same all over.  They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.~Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet Union politician

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I’m beginning to believe it.~Quoted in ‘Clarence Darrow for the Defense’ by Irving Stone.

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.~John Quinton, American actor/writer

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, “the Mark Twain of American Socialism.”

I offered my opponents a deal: “if they stop telling lies about me, I will stop telling the truth about them”.~Adlai Stevenson, campaign speech, 1952..

A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.~Texas Guinan. 19th century American businessman

I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.~Charles de Gaulle, French general & politician

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. ~ Doug Larson (English middle-distance runner who won gold medals at the 1924Olympic Games

I am reminded of a joke:  What happens if a politician drowns in a river?  That is pollution. What happens if all of them drown?  That is solution!!!I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two are lawyers and three or more are the government. ~John Adams (1735 – 1826)

Suppose you were an idiot.  And suppose you were a member of Government. But then I repeat myself. Mark Twain (1835- 1910)

I don’t make jokes. I just watch the Government and report the facts! ~ Will Rogers (1879- 1935) 

I contend that for a nation to try and tax itself into prosperity, is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. ~ Winston Churchill (1874 – 1965)

A Government which robs Peter to pay Paul, can always depend on the support of Paul!~ Will Rogers (1879- 1935)

The problem we face today is because the people that work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living.~ George Bernard Shaw (1856- 1950)

Any TV commentator today who uttered these words that Andy did on ’60 minutes’, would be fired immediately 

At the end of ’60 Minutes’ Andy usually had his own 10-minute segment that, unbelievably, was never censored by CBS. Whether you agreed with him or not, he stated a number of things that most people would not have the guts to say.  He’s probably the only one who could have gotten away with this. May he rest in peace. 

 Andy Rooney once said, “I don’t think being a minority makes you a victim of anything except numbers. The only things I can think of that are truly discriminatory are things like the United Negro College Fund, Jet Magazine, Black Entertainment Television, and Miss Black America.

Try to have things like the United Caucasian College Fund, Cloud Magazine, White Entertainment Television, or Miss White America; and see what happens.  Jesse Jackson will be knocking down your door with Al Sharpton in tow.

Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.

I believe they are called the Boy Scouts for a reason, which is why there are no girls allowed.  Girls belong in the Girl Scouts! ARE YOU LISTENING MARTHA BURKE?

I think that if you feel homosexuality is wrong, it is not a phobia, it is an opinion

I have the right ‘NOT’ to be tolerant of others because they are different, weird, or tick me off.

When 70% of the people who get arrested are black, in cities where 70% of the population is black, that is not racial profiling. It is the Law of Probability.

I believe that if you are selling me a milkshake, a pack of cigarettes, a newspaper or a hotel room, you must do it in English!  As a matter of fact, if you want to be an American citizen, you should have to speak English!

My father and grandfather didn’t die in vain so you can leave the countries you were born in to come over and disrespect ours.

I think the police should have every right to shoot you if you threaten them after they tell you to stop. If you can’t understand the word ‘freeze’ or ‘stop’ in English, see the above lines.

I don’t think just because you were not born in this country, you are qualified for any special loan programs, government sponsored bank loans or tax breaks, etc, so you can open a hotel, coffee shop, trinket store, or any other business.

We did not go to the aid of certain foreign countries and risk our lives in wars to defend their freedoms, so that decades later they could come over here and tell us our constitution is a living document; and open to their interpretations.

I don’t hate the rich; I don’t pity the poor. I know pro wrestling is fake, but so are movies and television. That doesn’t stop you from watching them.

I think Bill Gates has every right to keep every penny he made and continue to make more.  If it ticks you off, go and invent the next operating system that’s better, and put your name on the building.

It doesn’t take a whole village to raise a child right, but it does take a parent to stand up to the kid; and smack their little behinds when necessary, and say ‘NO!’

I think tattoos and piercing are fine if you want them, but please don’t pretend they are a political statement. And, please, stay home until that new lip ring heals. I don’t want to look at your ugly infected mouth as you serve me French fries!

I am sick of ‘Political Correctness.’  I know a lot of black people, and not a single one of them was born in Africa; so how can they be ‘African-Americans’?  Besides, Africa is a continent. I don’t go around saying I am a European-American because my great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather was from Europe.  I am proud to be from America and nowhere else, and if you don’t like my point of view, tough shit and leave…”

By Dr. Adrian Rogers – 1931

“You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom.  What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.  The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.  When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for. That my dear friend, is about the end of any nation.  You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.”