Famous Quotes

"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 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 Bill Vaughan

• "Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to."

• "Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking."

• "Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college."

• "Muscles come and go flab lasts."

• "Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem."