Famous Quotes

"A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future."

Leonard Bernstein 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 Leonard Bernstein

• "Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors."

• "A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future."

• "To achieve great things, two things are needed a plan, and not quite enough time."

• "This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before."

• "Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable."