Politics Quotes

The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's name.

One of the statistics that always amazes me is the approval of the Chinese government, not elected, is over 80 percent. The approval of the U.S. government, fully elected, is 19 percent. Well, we elected these people and they didn't elect those people. Isn't it supposed to be different? Aren't we supposed to like the people that we elected?

Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.

Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics.

What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.

Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor.

No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

The presidency, even to the most experienced politicians, is no bed of roses.

Though I now sink out of view, and shall be forgotten, I believe I have made some marks which will tell for the cause of civil liberty long after I am gone.

The cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred, defeats.

Just think of such a sucker as me as President!

Has it not got down as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to Death ?

We have enough objects of charity at home, and it is our duty to take care of our own poor, and our own suffering, before we go abroad to intermeddle with other people's business.

Douglas is playing cuttlefish, a small species of fish that has no mode of defending itself when pursued except by throwing out a black fluid, which makes the water so dark the enemy cannot see it.

I would despise myself if I supposed myself ready to deal less liberally with an adversary than I was willing to be treated myself.

When a man hears himself somewhat misrepresented, it provokes him - at least, I find it so with myself; but when the misrepresentation becomes very gross and palpable, it is more apt to amuse him.

Wise councils may accelerate or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later the victory is sure to come

The Union, in any event, won't be dissolved. We don't want to dissolve it, and if you attempt it, we won't let you.

Cruelty impresses, people want to be afraid of something. They want someone to whom they can submit with a shudder, the masses need that. They need something to dread.