What's one of your favorite political quotes?

I did not have sexual relations with that woman ( – on Monica Lewinsky)
Bill Clinton

“I am not a crook” ~ Richard Nixon.

“The federal gov’t gets it’s power from us, not the other way around.”
—Aaron Russo

AKA:

A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.
—Thomas Jefferson

@boots sort of like “A people should not be afraid of their government. Their government should be afraid of it’s people.” Adams

@ABoyNamedBoobs03 yup yup!

I think…therefore I vote [insert your political party here]

“Wir sing ein Volk” (we are one Nation) said by a West German to East German comedian J.Krebbs. And the response: “Ja, wir auch” (yeah, we too).

Lady Aston to Winston Churchill: “If you were my husband, I’d put poison in your tea”
Winston Churchill: “If you were my wife, I’d drink it”

And on a more serious level, the whole “I have a dream…” speech, which is inspiring even if you’re a white guy living on the other side of the Atlantic 40 years later.

A government big enough to supply you with everything you need, is a government big enough to take away everything that you have…. Gerald Ford

Anyone knows who was elected President? Well, who cares. Whoever you are, read my lips: DON’T TAX BEER! Al Bundy

Hasta la victoria siempre

“Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.”

John Dalberg-Acton

So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. – Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1st Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933.

I say to the House as I said to ministers who have joined this government, I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat. – Winston Churchill, 1st Speech to the House of Commons, May 13, 1940

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. – Martin Luther King, Letter From Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963

“Ask NOT what your country can do for you but what YOU can do for your country”

JFK

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule where fifty-one percent of the population takes away the rights of the other forty-nine. – Thomas Jefferson

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies—in the final sense—a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. Dwight D. Eisenhower

The same speech goes on to say:

This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

Sometimes you just have to bloom where you are planted.
Hilary Clinton

“I am a Jelly Donut”—- John Kennedy, mispronouncing “Ich bin ein Berliner”

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending to too much liberty than to those attending to a too small degree of it. Thomas Jefferson

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you’re talking about real money. Everett Dirksen

If Voting changed anything, they’d abolish it.

Anon. Sometimes used by Tony Benn.

Revolutionary ideas cannot be spread by a government. The government can only act on an idea when it has been generally accepted – and then it is compelled to act on it. If it does not, it will be replaced. In a democracy, the government is the servant and the people are the masters. When you want to get an idea accepted, do you explain it to the servant or to the master?

Vinoba Bhave. From his book – ’ The Intimate and the Ultimate ’ p41

Donald Rumsfeld’s ability to speak without saying anything never ceases to amaze, amuse, and horrify me all at once. Some examples:

- “What we are doing is that which is doable in the way we’re currently doing it.” (2001)
– “In Afghanistan, people who are friendly [to the United States] and unfriendly are constantly meeting together. Indeed, sometimes the same people can be friendly and later unfriendly within a relatively short period of time. There are also people who can pretend they’re friendly and who, in fact, are not very friendly.” (2002)
– “There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. These are things we don’t know we don’t know.” (2002)
– “I believe what I said yesterday. I don’t know what I said, but I know what I think, and I assume it’s what I said.” (2002)
– “If something is going to happen, there has to be something for it to happen with that’s interested in having it happen.” (2002)
– “The plan [in Iraq] is to prevent a civil war, and, to the extent one were to occur, to have the, from a security standpoint, have the Iraqi security forces deal with it to the extent they’re able to.” (2006)
– “The United States isn’t going to do anything that it’s not capable of doing. And if we do something, we’ll be capable of doing it.” (2002)
– “I’m not into this detail stuff. I’m more concept-y.” (2002)
– “Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.” (2004)
– “Stuff happens!” (2003)

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And… 2 Things Rumsfeld Said We Know For Sure About Osama Bin Laden:

- “We do know of certain knowledge that he is either in Afghanistan, or in some other country, or dead.” (2001)
– “He is either alive and well or alive and not too well or not alive.” (2002)

“Tippacanoe and Tyler too!” 19th century election slogan.

Another favorite, “54-forty or fight!”

And then there’s the famous anti-Andrew Jackson slogan, “Ma, Ma, Where’s our Pa? Gone to the White House, hah, hah, hah!”

They don’t make ‘em like they used to.

“fuck politics, i just wanna burn shit down”
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