The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
George Stephanopoulos quotes

I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
Will Rogers quotes

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
Abraham Lincoln quotes

One thing I can say about George...he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.
Barbara Bush quotes

I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
George Bush quotes

To those of you who received honors, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you too may one day be president of the United States.
George W. Bush quotes

If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as "candle making industry threatened".
Newt Gingrich quotes

Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to vote for Colonel Sanders.
Bob Inglis quotes

If elected, I will win.
Pat Paulsen quotes

Never vote for the best candidate, vote for the one who will do the least harm.
Frank Dane quotes

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
Clarence Darrow quotes

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge where there is no river.
Nikita Khrushchev quotes

The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.
P.J. O'Rourke quotes

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
George Bernard Shaw quotes

Politics makes estranged bedfellows.
Goodman Ace quotes

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.
Alben W. Barkley quotes

Ninty percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad name.
Henry Kissinger quotes

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Lester Pearson quotes

There ought to be one day -- just one -- where there is open season on senators.
Will Rogers quotes

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes

The best reason I can think of for not running for president of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.
Adlai Stevenson quotes

Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
Ambrose Bierce quotes

In Mexico, an air conditioner is called a 'politician,' because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.
Len Deighton quotes

For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.
Gilbert K. Chesterton quotes

When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton quotes

It is terrible to contemplete how few politicians are hanged.
Gilbert K. Chesterton quotes

The trouble with Senator Long is that he is suffering from halitosis of the intellect. That's presuming Senator Long has an intellect.
Harold L. Ickes quotes

Mick Jagger and I just really liked each other a lot. We talked all night. We had the same views on nuclear disarmament.
Jerry Hall quotes

If you liberals keep gettin' your way - we're all gonna hear one big loud flush. The sound of the U.S. of A. goin' straight down the toilet. - Archie Bunker
Carroll O'Connor quotes

It's our fault. We should have given him better parts.
Jack Warner quotes

When I was on my way to the podium a gentleman stopped me and said I was as good a politician as I was an actor. What a cheap shot!" (2004 Republican National Convention, August 31, 2004)
Arnold Schwarzenegger quotes

To those critics who are so pessimistic about our country, I say: Don't be economic girly men. (2004 Republican National Convention, August 31, 2004)
Arnold Schwarzenegger quotes

One of my movies was called "True Lies." It's what the Democrats should have called their convention.
Arnold Schwarzenegger quotes

It's the most important decision I've had to make since 1978 when I decided to get a bikini wax. [On his running for California Governor]
Arnold Schwarzenegger quotes

Today, the L.A. Times accused Arnold Schwarzenegger of groping six women. I'm telling you, this guy is presidential material.
David Letterman quotes

The first Presidential debate was down in Florida. Residents spent all day putting plywood on their televisions.
David Letterman quotes

My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference.
Harry S. Truman quotes

If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog.
Harry S. Truman quotes

If you can't convince them, confuse them.
Harry S. Truman quotes

Politicians are wonderful people as long as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living.
P. J. O'Rourke quotes

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
P. J. ORourke quotes

The American political system is like fast food - mushy, insipid, made out of disgusting parts of things and everybody wants some. (Parliament of Whores, 1991)
P. J. O'Rourke quotes

Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his. (During 1980 presidential campaign)
Ronald Reagan quotes

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
Ronald Reagan quotes

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 quotes

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
H. L. Mencken quotes

Folk who don't know why America is the Land of Promise should be here during an election campaign.
Milton Berle quotes

In Washington, a man gets up to speak and doesn't say a thing, and the other men disagree with him for three hours.
Milton Berle quotes

You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think.
Milton Berle quotes

I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power.
Jeffrey Archer quotes

Run for office? No. I've slept with too many women, I've done too many drugs, and I've been to too many parties.
George Clooney quotes

A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.
Texas Guinan quotes

The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.
Claude Pepper quotes

We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.
Kin Hubbard quotes

Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.
Kin Hubbard quotes

Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.
Kin Hubbard quotes

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
Will Rogers quotes

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
Will Rogers quotes

The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
Will Durant quotes

In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap.
Napoleon Bonaparte quotes

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Plato quotes

To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles.
Anonymus quotes

Half a truth is better than no politics.
Gilbert K. Chesterton quotes

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
Simon Cameron quotes

The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him.
Ernest Bevin quotes

He's a nice guy, but he played too much football with his helmet off. (About Gerald Ford)
Lyndon Baines Johnson quotes

The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.
Konrad Adenauer quotes

As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.
Karl Rove quotes

Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.
Karl Rove quotes

Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.
Karl Rove quotes

Being lectured by the president on fiscal responsibility is a little bit like Tony Soprano talking to me about law and order in this country.
John Kerry quotes

Here I am in the state of New Mexico. George Bush is still in the state of denial. New Mexico has five electoral votes. The state of denial has none. I like my chances.
John Kerry quotes

I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it.
John Kerry quotes

Why am I running for president? Well, my wife, Cindy, says it is because I sustained several severe blows to the head in prison camp.
John McCain quotes

As far as me and the vice presidency is concerned ... I spent a number of years in a North Vietnamese prison camp in the dark and (was) fed scraps, and I don't know why I would want to do that all over again -- 2004 July 18, Rally in San Diego, on not wishing to replace VP Dick Cheney
John McCain quotes

The only difference I ever found between the Democratic leadership and the Republican leadership is that one of them is skinning you from the ankle up and the other, from the neck down.
Huey Long quotes

The Republicans are the party of bad ideas. The Democrats are the party of no ideas.
Lewis Black quotes

In my lifetime, we've gone from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. We've gone from John F. Kennedy to Al Gore. If this is evolution, I believe that in 12 years, we'll be voting for plants.
Lewis Black quotes

We lost everything. We even won our own constituency.
Maryon Pearson quotes

Dear Jack. Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide. (in a letter to his son during the 1960 presidential campaign)
Joseph P. Kennedy quotes

My definition of a redundancy is an air bag in a politician's car.
Larry Hagman quotes

There is one sure way of telling when politicians aren't telling the truth?their lips move.
Felicity Kendall quotes

You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on. -- (spoken at a Washington Dinner, March 2001)
George W. Bush quotes

People tell me that Senator Edwards got picked for his good looks, his sex appeal, and his great hair. I say to them, 'How do you think I got the job?
Dick Cheney quotes

I'm not a politician and my other habits are good.
Artemus Ward quotes

The Court made an exception, however, in the case of candidates contributing to their own campaigns because of the rather reasonable presumption that a candidate is incapable of corrupting himself.
James L. Buckley quotes

It is now well known, however, that men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.
C. Northcote Parkinson quotes

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.
David Lloyd George quotes

It is fast approaching the point where I don't want to elect anyone stupid enough to want the job. (on the US presidency)
Erma Bombeck quotes

"[I propose to create a] Commission on Erections and Mounting.
Richard M. Daley quotes

If Governor Fields is right, I am going to stand by him because he is right. If he is wrong, I am going to stand by him because he is a Democrat.
Augustus O. Stanley quotes

I must say the Senator's victory in Wisconsin was a triumph for democracy. It proves that a millionaire has just as good a chance as anyone else.
Bob Hope quotes

On one side you have book burners, Congressional wives and Pat Robertson. On the other side, you have vulgar comedians, foul-mouthed rap groups and Dennis Hopper?all your choices should be so easy.
Sandra Bernhard quotes

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.
Mario Cuomo quotes

He is going around the country stirring up apathy. (on Harold Wilson)
William Whitelaw quotes

I didn't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs. (when asked a political question at a "Just Say No" rally)
Nancy Reagan quotes

I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
Adlai Stevenson quotes

The wind doesn't bother me. I'm in the US Senate.
Bob Dole quotes

Latins for Republicans. It's like roaches for Raid.
John Leguizamo quotes

The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
Adlai Stevenson quotes

He is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
Adlai Stevenson quotes

He who slings mud generally loses ground.
Adlai Stevenson quotes

Since you have chosen to elect a man with a timber toe to succeed me, you may all go to hell and I will go to Texas.
Davy Crockett quotes

I do have certain feelings. My feeling is that whoever is in charge, I want him out. (on his political views)
Lewis Black quotes

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

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
T. S. Eliot quotes

Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.
Bob Edwards quotes

This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.
David Brinkley quotes

The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee.
Roy Acuff quotes

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
Charles de Gaulle quotes