What is your favorite political quote of all time?

[WI wide body]

Actaully, I have three that top the list of my favorites. Here they are in no particular order of importance or sense!

The first is by Adlai Stevenson who most of the kids on this board probably never heard of. He was a man of impeccable character and morals along with having a great wit. Naturally, he lost twice in bids for the presidency.

Once after an election Stevenson was asked by a dimwit reporter what he thought of how the people had voted. Stevenson paused for only an instant and replied:

"Your public servants serve you right!"

The second one is by Mark Twain and needs no introduction:

"Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."

And last is one by Ronald Reagan, the guy who is invoked at every opportunity by the GOP frontrunners in this years' primary. (they must not be aware of what Reagan's record really was)

President Reagan was asked if nuclear war could be limited to tactical weapons and Ronnie was not able to get his handlers to write something for him so he relied:

"Well, I would---if they realized that we---again if---if we led them back to that stalemate only because that our retaliatory power, our seconds, or strike at them after our first strike, would be so destructive that they couldn't afford it, that would hold them off."

It is just a rumor that after hearing what President Reagan had said 5 of his aides collapsed and everyone in the room developed a headache!

[Mule]

"Your right to swing your arm stops where my nose starts," Thomas Jefferson

[Rick Lee]

There are so many!

"A billion here, a billion there. Pretty soon you're talking real money." - Everitts Dirksen

"If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog" - Harry Truman

"I hated eating broccoli as a kid. My mother made me eat it. Now I'm president of the United States and I don't have to eat broccoli anymore." - George H.W. Bush

"We gonna raise enough money to burn a wet mule." - Haley Barbour

[tabs]

"We start Bombing in five minutes"
"If you have seen one Redwood Tree you have seen them all."

BY my fav is

"You won't have Dick Nixon to kick around anymore."

[tabs]

"It depends upon what you definition of "is" is."

[frogger]

"I am not a crook." - Richard Nixon

[legion]

"If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." - Ronald Reagan.

"The nine scariest words in the English language are: 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan

[kstar]

(It's) time for the human race to enter the solar system.
Dan Quayle


What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
Dan Quayle


Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.
Dan Quayle

[widebody911]

"Mandela is dead" - GWB

[craigster59]

"I never had sex with that woman" - Bill Clinton
Alright, JeremyD quoted it right. That sucks (pun intended).

[JeremyD]

"I did not have sex with that woman..."

[Mo_Gearhead]

"Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President."
_______________________

The President that micro-managed 'my' war from the basement of the White House.

[silverc4s]

"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time. That's good enough for me."

--Tip O'Neill

[JeremyD]

HAHA Craigster - seconds apart...

"Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground" - Theodore Roosevelt

[Porsche-O-Phile]

"Let them eat cake"

(Attributed to Marie Antoinette, but debated as to whether or not she actually said it)

I like it because it accurately sums up how I believe politicians and the "power elite" actually see the rest of the world.

[CurtEgerer]

"It's important to rescue the frog", Al Gore.

[frogger]

Yes, it is.

[sammyg2]

"The President has kept all the promises he intended to keep."
Clinton aide George Stephanopolous.

It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."
Dan Quayle

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

"I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers, We are the president."
Hillary Clinton.

"I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming."
Jimmy Carter.

"I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say."
Richard Nixon.

"People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like."
Abraham Lincoln.

"Things are more like they are now than they ever were before."
Dwight D. Eisenhower.

[pwd72s]

"The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government, they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can't get and promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten, that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time is made good by looting A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is a sort of advance auction of the sale of stolen goods."

-H.L. Mencken

[Porsche-O-Phile]

"Need some wood?"
-GWB

"I know how hard it is to put food on your family"
-GWB

"You work three jobs? Uniquely American, isn't it?"
-GWB