Your Favorite Political Quotes

[JWBooth]

[FONT=&quot]Any excuse will serve a tyrant.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]~Aesop[/FONT]

 

[Sky Dancer]

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity. - Robert Anthony

 

[JWBooth]

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. H. L. Mencken

 

[PoliticalChic]

"In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed — they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
From “The Third Man” (Harry Lime)

 

[PLYMCO_PILGRIM]

"I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer." --Benjamin Franklin

 

[PoliticalChic]

Every time the government tries to help the poor it ends up removing the marvelous incentives life provides to do things like buy an alarm clock, get a job, keep your knees together before marriage, and generally become a productive, happy, member of society.
Ann Coulter

 

[George Costanza]

"We will reach out to all of those who share our viewpoints."

George W. Bush on bringing the nation together following his reelection to the Presidency in February, 2004.

 

[jillian]

All politics is local.

Tip O'Neill

 

[Cal]

"I am a Christian and a Democrat, that's all" - FDR
"You put your car in D to go forward. You put it in R to go backwords" - Barack Obama

 

[PLYMCO_PILGRIM]

"You put your car in D to go forward. You put it in R to go backwords" - Barack Obama

This is what happens when you put the car in D with Obama driving

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[PLYMCO_PILGRIM]

"This isn't the Democratic party of our fathers and grandfathers. This is the party of Woodstock hippies. I was at Woodstock -- I built the stage. And when everything fell apart, and people were fighting for peanut-butter sandwiches, it was the National Guard who came in and saved the same people who were protesting them. So when Hillary Clinton a few years ago wanted to build a Woodstock memorial, I said it should be a statue of a National Guardsman feeding a crying hippie." --actor John Ratzenberger

 

[Cal]

"You put your car in D to go forward. You put it in R to go backwords" - Barack Obama

This is what happens when you put the car in D with Obama driving

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZT5mQLy5C4]YouTube - JOEY'S CRASH[/ame]

Clever.

 

[PLYMCO_PILGRIM]

"The White House is defending President Obama's sports activities over the past week, saying that everyone needs leisure time. Thanks to these economic policies, 9.5 percent of Americans have all the leisure time they need." --comedian Jay Leno

 

[PLYMCO_PILGRIM]

"It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good of the United States; and as they would be the sole judges of the good or evil, it would be also a power to do whatever evil they please. Certainly no such universal power was meant to be given them." --Thomas Jefferson

 

[PLYMCO_PILGRIM]

"Well, I, for one, resent it when a representative of the people refers to you and me, the free men and women of this country, as 'the masses.' This is a term we haven't applied to ourselves in America. But beyond that, 'the full power of centralized government' -- this was the very thing the Founding Fathers sought to minimize. They knew that governments don't control things. A government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that, it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose. They also knew, those Founding Fathers, that outside of its legitimate functions, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector of the economy." --Ronald Reagan

 

[johnrocks]

"When I say liberty…I mean liberty of the individual to think his own thoughts and live his own life as he desires to think and live; the liberty of the family to decide how they wish to live, what they wanted to eat for breakfast and for dinner, and how they wish to spend their time; liberty of a man to develop his ideas and get other people to teach those ideas, if he can convince them that they have some value to the world"

Robert A. "Mr. Republican" Taft

 

[Oddball]

"Bite me"...Or something to that effect.

~Rosa Parks

 

[asterism]

Any endeavor to thwart liberty eventually collapses under its own weight.

--asterism

 

[PLYMCO_PILGRIM]

"We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt." --Thomas Jefferson

 

[PLYMCO_PILGRIM]

"Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens." --Joseph Story