Sayings ( Page 9 of 12 )

Malcolm Forbes June 26, 2014 00:00

It’s clear that something must be done about the effectively disruptive tactics of anarchistic handfuls [at political rallies]. Handling the occasional heckler is a storied, valuable art in politics; but a militant group of grubs…

B. C. Forbes June 25, 2014 00:00

Accuse American businessmen of being responsible for radicalism and they would indignantly deny the accusation. Yet, in one fundamental sense, they are responsible. They are responsible in the sense that they have utterly neglected to…

Will Durant June 24, 2014 00:00

The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.

William O. Douglas June 23, 2014 00:00

Political controls in the sense that we think of bureaus or departments of government can never operate to produce collaboration between groups in the inner wheels of our industrial organization. It must come from inner…

Bob Dole June 22, 2014 00:00

Sure, losing an election hurts, but I’ve experienced worse. And at an age when every day is precious, brooding over what might have been is self-defeating. In conceding the 1996 election, I remarked that “tomorrow…

James Freeman Clarke June 21, 2014 00:00

A politician thinks of the next election; a statement of the next generation. A politician looks for the success of his party; a statesman for that of his country. The statesman wishes to steer, while…

Winston Churchill June 20, 2014 00:00

I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.

G. K. Chesterton June 19, 2014 00:00

When [a politician] is in opposition, he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it. In short, when he…

Simon Cameron June 17, 2014 00:00

An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

George Burns June 16, 2014 00:00

Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair

Edward Bulwer-Lytton June 15, 2014 00:00

It is the misfortune of all miscellaneous political combinations, that with the purest motives of their more generous members are ever mixed the most sordid interests and the fiercest passions of mean confederates.