Famous Quotes

"Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country."

Ambrose Bierce on Politics

More quotes about Politics

• "Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future."

  John F. Kennedy on Politics

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

  Mark Twain on Politics

• "One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."

  Plato on Politics

• "If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."

  Milton Friedman on Politics

• "It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything."

  Joseph Stalin on Politics

More quotes by Ambrose Bierce

• "Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age."

• "Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age."

• "Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret."

• "Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic."

• "Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."