Browsing Topic Best Politician Quotes

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

We must never remain silent in the face of bigotry. We must condemn those who seek to divide us. In all quarters and at all times, we must teach tolerance and denounce racism, anti-Semitism and all ethnic or religious bigotry wherever they exist as unacceptable evils. We have no place for haters in America — none, whatsoever.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.

The new nation called Nigeria should be an estate of our great-grandfather, Uthman Dan Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We use the minorities of the North as willing tools and the South as a conquered territory and never allow them to rule over us, and never allow them to have control over their future.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

That government is best which governs least.

I truly believe in my heart most white people and black people are awesome people, but we’re so stupid following our politicians, whether they’re Republicans or Democrats,

The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.

I think there’s people who don’t value truth, they don’t value honesty, I think they just want to win.

The world would have peace if only men of politics would follow the Gospels.

The pro-Israel lobby has been remarkably successful in suppressing criticism. Politicians challenge it at their peril because of the lobby’s ability to influence political contributions.

…Politics is not about facts. It is about what politicians can get people to believe.

You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.

The reason the American debate over Israel-Palestine could shift dramatically and quickly is that many Democratic politicians don’t need to be convinced that what Israel is doing is wrong. They just need to be convinced that they can say so without hurting their careers.

[…] you got a decrepit electoral political system that is colonized by big money, but you still have to be able to intervene and try to stay in contact with those few politicians who are concerned about poor and working people.

It is not the business of politicians to please everyone.

Judging by the statements of [EU] politicians, they are ready to neglect the interests of their citizens, just to please their overseas master.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

I’ve been a politician and so I’m sometimes cynical about what politicians won’t do. When I hear a politician say something that makes no sense whatsoever, I think there’s one of two things there: There’s money or the promise of money.

The most consistent and ultimately damaging failure of political journalism in America (is that it) has its roots in the clubby/cocktail personal relationships that inevitably develop between politicians and journalists.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.