Politics Quotes

Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

One thing I have learned about the presidency is that whatever shortcomings you have, people are going to notice them -- and whatever strengths you have, you're going to need them.

It takes a long time to turn a big country around.

The White House: I don't know whether it's the finest public housing in America or the crown jewel of the prison system.

There is -- in world affairs -- a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.

The Vice Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.

If you look back on the '60s and think there was more good than harm, you're probably a Democrat. If you think there was more harm than good, you're probably a Republican.

Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.

The more you read and observe about this Politics thing you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.

The days of looking the other way while despotic regimes trample human rights, rob their nations' wealth, and then excuse their failings by feeding their people a steady diet of anti-Western hatred are over.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer but the right answer.

In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.