Quotes

• "The belief that all wealth comes from stealing is popular in prisons and at Harvard."- George Gilder
• Wealth is based on productivity, and productivity is expandable.  In fact, productivity is fabulously expandable."- P.J. O'Rourke
• Capitalism did not create poverty--it inherited it."-Ayn Rand
•   "The number of poor people who can't afford food for their children is a lot smaller than it used to be -- thanks to capitalism. Capitalism didn't create malnutrition, it reduced it. The globalization of capitalism from 1950 to the present has increased annual average income in the world to $7,000 from $2,000. Contrary to popular legend, poor countries grew at about the same rate as the rich ones. This growth gave us the greatest mass exit from poverty in world history.
     "The parts of the world that are still poor are suffering from too little capitalism. Foreign direct investment in Africa today, although rising, amounts to only 1% of global flows. That's because the environment for private business in Africa is still hostile. There are some industry and country success stories in Africa, but not enough." -- WILLIAM R. EASTERLY
• “Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.~Frederic Bastiat
• "The problem with socialism is eventually you run out of other people's money."- Margeret Thatcher
• "I do not agree with a word you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." -- Voltaire
• "There is a vast difference between living according to one's idea of what it is to be good, and actually being that way." -- C. Terry Warner
• "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend: and inside a dog, it's too dark to read." -- Groucho Marx
• "Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare." -- Japanese Proverb
• "The great thing is, if one can, to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions in one's "own" or "real" life. The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life." -- C. S. Lewis
• "God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed." -- Luis Buquel
• "The content of your mind - your values and ideas - are nobody's business but your own." -- Kerry O'Quinn
• "A fanatic is someone who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." - Winston Churchill
• "To live a single day and hear a good teaching is better than to live a hundred years without knowing such teaching." -- Buddha
• "To action alone have you a right, and never at all to its fruits. Let not the fruits of action be your motive; Neither let there be in you any attachment to inaction" -- Bhagvadgita
• "Everything you can imagine is real." -- Pablo Picasso
• "Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself." -- Harvey Fierstien
• "The limits of my language are the limits of my world." -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
• "There's always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in." -- Graham Greene in 'The power and the Glory'
• "Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction." -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• "Imagination is more important than knowledge." -- Albert Einstein
• "The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved." -- Victor Hugo
• "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." - George Orwell in '1984' 
• "Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? -- Abraham Lincoln
• "I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him." -- Booker T. Washington
• "To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight and never stop fighting." -- e.e cummings
• "And as we wind on down the road our shadows taller than our soul" -- Led Zeppelin \
• "If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice" -- rush
• "The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again." -- Thomas Paine
• "To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. . . A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in." -- C.S. Lewis
• "If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity." - John F. Kennedy
• "The trouble with socialists is that they let their bleeding hearts go to their bloody heads."- Tommy Douglas
• "The world is a dangerous place to live - not because of the people who are evil but because of the people who don't do anything about it." - Albert Einstein
• "There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full." - Henry Kissinger
• "Three people marooned on a desert island would soon reinvent politics." -Mason Cooley
• "What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
• "Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by mself." - Herbert Hoover
• "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - John F. Kennedy
• "Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides." - Margaret Thatcher
• "Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong." - Daniel O'Connell
• "Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country."-Calvin Coolidge
• "Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime."- Adlai Stevenson
• ... ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. -John F. Kennedy
• "A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle."- George William Curtis
• "Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it." -George Bernard Shaw
• "Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land." -Walter Scott
• "A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth."- Henry Ward Beecher
• "Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong." ~Richard Armour
• "Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason." ~Author Unknown
• "There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle." ~Alexis de Tocqueville
• "We'd all like to vote for the best man, but he's never a candidate." ~Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard
• "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough." ~Clarie Sargent, Arizona senatorial candidate
• "Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber." ~Plato
• "Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where they is no river." ~Nikita Khrushchev
• "George Washington is the only president who didn't blame the previous administration for his troubles." ~Author Unknown
• "Truth is not determined by majority vote." ~Doug Gwyn
• "An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry." ~George Eliot, Felix Holt, Chapter 5 (Thanks Julie!)
• "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy." ~Ernest Benn
• "We have, I fear, confused power with greatness." ~Stewart Udall
• "Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel." ~John Quinton
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  "Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians." ~Charles Krauthammer
• "Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks." ~Doug Larson
• "The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces." ~Maureen Murphy
• "There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen." ~Author Unknown
• "Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you. "~Author Unknown
• "I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians." ~Charles de Gaulle
• "Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork."
• "Mankind will never see an end of trouble until... lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power... become lovers of wisdom." ~Plato, The Republic
• "The problem with political jokes is they get elected." ~Henry Cate, VII
• "There are far too many men in politics and not enough elsewhere." ~Hermione Gingold
• "Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party." ~Winston Churchill
• "The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery. They're the kind of people who'd stop to help you change a flat, but would somehow manage to set your car on fire. I would be reluctant to entrust them with a Cuisinart, let alone the economy. The Republicans, on the other hand, would know how to fix your tire, but they wouldn't bother to stop because they'd want to be on time for Ugly Pants Night at the country club." ~Dave Barry
• "History is gossip but scandal is gossip made tedious by morality." ~Oscar Wilde
• "Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first." ~Ronald Reagan
• "Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage." ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary,1911
• "Politics, n: [Poly "many" + tics "blood-sucking parasites"] ~Larry Hardiman
• "Midas, they say, possessed the art of old
  
  Of turning whatsoe'er he touch'd to gold;
  
  This modern statesmen can reverse with ease -
  
  Touch them with gold, they'll turn to what you please.~John Wolcot
• "We have plenty of Confidence in this country, but we are a little short of good men to place our Confidence in." ~Will Rogers
• "Politics - I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from one another, while nature is always and ever making efforts to bring us together." ~Sean O'Casey
• "One ought to recognize that the present political chaos is connected with the decay of language, and that one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end. If you simplify your English, you are freed from the worst follies of orthodoxy. You cannot speak any of the necessary dialects, and when you make a stupid remark, its stupidity will be obvious, even to yourself. Political language - and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. One cannot change this all in a moment, but one can at least change one's own habits, and from time to time, one can even, if one jeers loudly enough, send some worn-out and useless phrase - some jackboot, Achilles' heel, hotbed, melting pot, acid test, veritable inferno or other lump of verbal refuse - into the dustbin where it belongs. ~George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language," Shooting an Elephant, 1950
• "Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct."
  ~Thomas Jefferson
• "It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen." ~George E. MacDonald
• "They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men." ~Clare Booth Luce
• "During a campaign the air is full of speeches - and vice versa." ~Author Unknown
• "If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide." ~Meg Greenfield
• "When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators." ~P.J. O'Rourke
• "Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote." ~George Jean Nathan
• "Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least." ~Robert Byrne
• "Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster." ~James Harvey Robinson, The Human Comedy, 1937
• "A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation." ~James Freeman Clarke, Sermon
• "Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times." ~Winston Churchill
• "When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale." ~John Gardner
• "Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed." ~Mao Zedong
  
  
  
Sources
• http://www.famous-quotes-and-quotations.com/patriotic-quotes.html
• http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com/topics/politics_quotes.html
• http://www.quotegarden.com/politics.html