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Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.
Will Rogers1879–1935Daily Telegram #1538, The First Good News of the 1928 Campaign! Mr. Rogers Says He Will Not Run For Anything (28 June 1931)
The more you read and observe about this Politics thing you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
Will Rogers1879–1935The Illiterate Digest (1924), “Breaking into the Writing Game”
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.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969State of the Union Address (February 2, 1952)
It takes a long time to turn a big country around.
Bill Clintonborn 1946
One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is ‘to be prepared’.
Dan Quayleborn 1947
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.
Dick Cheney1941–2025
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer but the right answer.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963Remarks at “Loyola College Alumni Banquet, Baltimore, Maryland (18 February 1958)
The Vice Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won’t take it, but somebody always does.
BVBill Vaughan1915–1977
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.
?UnattributedOften credited to Alexis de Tocqueville
- America
- Economics
A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
Alexis de Tocqueville1805–1859Democracy in America, Volume I (1835), Chapter XIII.
- Democracy
- Economics
The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.
Alexis de Tocqueville1805–1859France Before The Consulate, Chapter I: “How the Republic was ready to accept a master”, in Memoir, Letters, and Remains, Vol I (1862), p. 266
In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
Alexis de Tocqueville1805–1859Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville, p. 96
Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God’s children.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Speech to the Negro American Labor Council (May 1965), as quoted in From Civil Rights to Human Rights : Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Economic Justice (2009), by Thomas F. Jackson, p. 230
- Economics
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchill1874–1965Speech in the House of Commons (October 22, 1945) “Demobilisation”
- Economics
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.
Winston Churchill1874–1965BBC broadcast (“The Russian Enigma”), London, October 1, 1939 (partial text, transcript of the “First Month of War” speech).