Famous Quotes

"We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is."

Adlai E. Stevenson on Politics

More quotes about Politics

• "Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future."

  John F. Kennedy on Politics

• "Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress but I repeat myself."

  Mark Twain on Politics

• "One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."

  Plato on Politics

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

  Milton Friedman on Politics

• "It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything."

  Joseph Stalin on Politics

More quotes by Adlai E. Stevenson

• "Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age."

• "Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be."

• "Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them."

• "Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them."

• "A beauty is a woman you notice a charmer is one who notices you."