politics

"The Democracy are given to 'bushwhacking'. After having their errors and mis-statements continually thrust in their faces, they pay no heed, but go on howling about Seward and the 'irrepressible confl…"

"Our time is Gothic in its spirit. Unlike the Renaissance, it is not dominated by a few outstanding personalities. The twentieth century has established the democracy of the intellect. In the republic …"

"It should not be a federal crime to charge low prices to American consumers."

"The intervening time to my first inauguration was filled up with wranglings between Congress and the new Executive as to the best mode of "reconstruction," or, to speak plainly, as to whether the cont…"

"Of course we have to vote Republican! The worst Republicans is better than the best Democrat – put that on Youtube! ...If we win the Senate we win the world. If the Republicans lose the House, we lose…"

"When one person can initiate war, by its definition, a republic no longer exists."

"In these conditions, our people can make miracles. I have often had the opportunity to realize that the sense of duty of our villagers is authentic. It is a sign of awareness. One call by the National…"

"Women might be, and were, duly suppressed when, by the mouth of Olympe de Gouges, they claimed a "right to concur in the choice of representatives for the formation of the laws"; but in her person, to…"

"Ambition can never be naked in a political campaign, it must be clothed in deceit."

"The strange thing is that it's always in Europe that dictatorships and totalitarian regimes spring up, yet it's always America that is "fascist."

"Today there is a new class hostile to business in general, and especially to large corporations. As a group, you find them mainly in the very large and growing public sector and in the media. They sha…"

"We’d all like t’vote fer th’best man, but he’s never a candidate."

"Are we out of step with the administration because we do not comport completely to their political point of view?... So they criticize us for it. It goes with the territory, and if we get a groundswel…"

"The success of our popular government rests wholly upon the correct interpretation of the deliberate, intelligent, dependable popular will of America."

"I fear we've ended up in this situation because of irresponsible politicians trying to use rhetoric against immigration in order to make political points, for example for Brexit. But we've opened a ca…"

"Finality, Sir, is not the language of politics."

"All you've ever asked of your government is to stand on your side and not in your way. And that's what I intend to do: stand on your side and fight for your future."

"He laid into me with the same gusto as a right-wing political pundit on the O'Reilly Factor defending President's Bush right to vacation six days out of the week."

"You've got a Leave population and a Remain Parliament."

"What is our aim, aim of the people is to eradicate this current government. That happens then the aim is fulfilled or else there is no win."