Famous Quotes

"I was on leave from local and regional politics, as long as I was a Minister."

Emma Bonino 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 Emma Bonino

• "The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature."

• "The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature."

• "A woman must combine the role of mother, wife and politician."

• "My mother's studies stopped with the third year of primary school, my father with the first. They taught me a deep sense of duty. But nobody was involved in politics in my family."

• "I am positive that flexibility is a feminine characteristic."