Favorite Political Quotes

[Mojo2]

Favorite Political Quotes

Here's the format.

In the text area list your quotation and who said it and all the commentary you please.

But in the little strip where the thread topic would go, (marked, "Title:") please categorize your quotation so that someone looking for quotations about "Equality and Freedom" for example, will be able to easily find it if they do a thread search.

For example:

Title:

Equality and Freedom

Message:

The society that puts equality before freedom will end up with neither. The society that puts freedom before equality will end up with a great measure of both.

— Milton Friedman

I'll do a second post immediately to provide a template.

 

[Mojo2]

In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control and those dedicated to the goals the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely.

— (Jerry) Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy

 

[KNB]

"We know where they are. They're in the area around Baghdad and east, south, west and north somewhat." - Sec of Def Donald Rumsfeld, answering a question about the location of WMD in Iraq

 

[American4Americ]

I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.

- Joseph Stalin, regarding his beliefs, and atheism.

 

[Mojo2]

“The only time you should look in your neighbor's bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don't look in your neighbor's bowl to see if you have as much as them.”


― Louis C.K.

 

[KNB]

Doonesbury.com: The War in Quotes, by G.B. Trudeau

"They hate things; we love things. They act out of hatred; we don't seek revenge, we seek justice out of love." -- George W. Bush, August 29, 2002

"No one is talking about occupying Iraq for five to ten years."
-- Richard Perle, March 9, 2003

"Should we have to go in, our mission is very clear in Iraq: disarmament."
-- Pres. Bush, March 6, 2003

"Our mission is clear: to train Iraqis so they can do the fighting and make sure they can stand up to defend their freedoms."
--Pres. Bush, June 2, 2005

"Our mission in Iraq is clear: We're hunting down the terrorists. We're helping Iraqis build a free nation that is an ally in the war on terror. We're advancing freedom in the broader Middle East. We are removing a source of violence and instability, and laying the foundation of peace for our children."
--Pres. Bush, June 29, 2005

"We have a new strategy with a new mission: helping secure the population, especially in Baghdad. Our plan puts Iraqis in the lead."
--Pres. Bush, Jan.13, 2007

"It's a new mission. Its goal is to help the Iraqis to build a free nation that respects the rights of its people, upholds the rule of law, and is an ally against the extremists in this war."
--Pres. Bush, June 28, 2007

 

[whitehall]

"We know where they are. They're in the area around Baghdad and east, south, west and north somewhat." - Sec of Def Donald Rumsfeld, answering a question about the location of WMD in Iraq

"Saddam Hussein engaged in the development of WMD's which are a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of weapons inspection process"...Nancy Pelosi 1998

"Hussein has chosen to spend his money on WMD's and palaces for his cronies"...Clinton Secretary of State Albright 1999

"We know Saddam has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country"...Al Gore 2002

 

[KNB]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvKVGmAc54c]Curveball interview - Man whose Lie caused Iraq War tells all. - YouTube[/ame]

 

[S.J.]

Those who vote decide nothing. Those who COUNT the votes decide everything.

Josef Stalin

 

[norwegen]

Democrat honesty

"I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky."

- Bill Clinton

"If you like your healthcare plan, you can keep your healthcare plan."

- The Bearded Marxist

 

[blackhawk]

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”
― Noël Coward

 

[The Rabbi]

"You didnt build that." -Obama, with thanks to Sen Warren, from whom he plagiarized the line.

 

[TemplarKormac]

Miscellaneous Politics:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO2_49TycdE]Reagan's Nashua Moment - YouTube[/ame]

 

[TemplarKormac]

"If you like your plan, you can keep your plan. If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. Period."

-President Barack H. Obama on 36 different occasions

 

[Freewill]

The problem is, is that the way Bush has done it over the last eight years is to take out a credit card from the Bank of China in the name of our children, driving up our national debt from $5 trillion for the first 42 presidents – #43 added $4 trillion by his lonesome, so that we now have over $9 trillion of debt that we are going to have to pay back — $30,000 for every man, woman and child. That’s irresponsible. It’s unpatriotic.

 

[Dutch]

Labor v Management

Henry Ford II: Walter, how are you going to get those robots to pay your union dues?

Walter Reuther: Henry, how are you going to get them to buy your cars?

 

[Bill Angel]

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for -- Will Rogers

Will Rogers' perspective on the government shutdown?

 

[History]

 

[Bill Angel]

"Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.” - Marshall McLuhan.

Acceptance Speech

 

[skye]

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for -- Will Rogers

Will Rogers' perspective on the government shutdown?

and another one from him.....


We have been staggering along now about 155 years under every conceivable horse thief that could get into office, and yet here we are, still going strong.