The most important political office is that of the private citizen.
Louis D. Brandeis

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
Oscar Levant

The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?
Dan Quayle

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
John Stuart Mill

The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.
Clare Boothe Luce

The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive.
Dan Quayle

The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.
Maureen Murphy

The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.
Fidel Castro

The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
Fidel Castro

The secret of getting things done is to act!
Dante Alighieri

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
Erich Fromm

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.
Herbert Hoover

The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.
Deng Xiaoping

The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.
Bill Vaughan

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.
John Foster Dulles

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.
Robertson Davies

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
Gertrude Stein

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
Alexis de Tocqueville

There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
Will Rogers