Reply #8: Political Quotes [View All]

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One night last year he called about 1 a.m, ranting and raving about something. And I said, 'Sir, are you watching Fox again?'
-Julia Payne, Bill Clinton's spokeswoman

I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone’s teeth get cleaner?
-Frank Zappa’s reply to Tipper Gore’s claim that rock lyrics incited deviant behavior

Don't vote. You'll only encourage them

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
-Sir Winston Churchill

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it.
-Clarence Darrow

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap
-Napoleon Bonaparte

Politicians are those who deal with the problems which would not exist if they didn't exist

Politicians and diapers have one thing in common. They should both be changed regularly and for the same reason.

Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a congressman can.
-Mark Twain

Never have I seen a word as accurate as politics. Poly meaning many, and tic being a blood-sucking thing.

People who are willing to rely on the government to keep them safe are pretty much standing on Darwin's mat, pounding on the door, screaming, 'Take me, take me!

I have tried to give Oliver North the benifit of the doubt after hearing his testimony that he knew right from wrong, but that he didn't know that lying to congress was illegal.
-Art Buchwald

If I were in the President's place I would not get a chance to resign. I would be lying in a pool of my own blood hearing Mrs. Armey standing over me saying, "How do I reload this damn thing?"
-Representative Dick Armey, on what he would be doing in Clinton's place.

Capital punishment is our societies recognition of the sanctity of human life.
-Orrin Hatch, Senator from Utah.

"I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy. But that could change."
-Dan Quayle

If we do not succeed, we run the risk of failure.
-Dan Quayle

Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.
-Dan Quayle

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history... this century's history.... We all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-Dan Quayle

It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.
-George Bush

I want to make sure everybody who has a job wants a job.
-George Bush, during his first Presidential campaign

"This is a great day for France!"
Richard Nixon, while attending Charles De Gaulle's funeral


"I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes."
-Richard Nixon

If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-Harry Truman

"I've tried everything else to convince you. Now I'm going to be sensible."
-unnamed congressman


Well, if you can't take people's money and then screw them over you have no business being in this line of work.
-Mayor of San Francisco, after being asked how he could pass a wide range smoking ban after accepting large campaign contribution from the tobacco lobby.

I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes.


Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, DC