Famous Quotes About politics

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.

I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.

If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job.

After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.

Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois.

You know they say the most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip.

It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.