"Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust."
"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"Though the people support the government the government should not support the people."
"A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves."
"The lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the Government, Government should not support the people."
"Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government."
"A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil."