Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around. – Gilbert K. Chesterton
All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway. – Harry S. Truman
A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip. – Caskie Stinnett
He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander. – Napoleon Bonaparte
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. – Gore Vidal
Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society. – Pope John Paul II
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. – Milton Friedman
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. – Lord Acton
Oh, that lovely title, ex-president. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas. – Lewis Black
In politics nothing is contemptible. – Benjamin Disraeli
I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish – occasionally I do windows. – Edward Koch
You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord. – Barbara Bush
You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt. – Daniel Hannan
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. – R. Buckminster Fuller
Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class. – B. R. Ambedkar
If nominated, I will not run if elected, I will not serve. – William Tecumseh Sherman
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal – that you can gather votes like box tops – is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. – Adlai E. Stevenson
A politician will do anything to keep his job – even become a patriot. – William Randolph
The secret of getting things done is to act! – Dante Alighieri
