Famous Quotes About politics

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

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.

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.

In government you carry each hope each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.

My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all.