Famous Quotes

"I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power."

Arthur C. Clarke 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 Arthur C. Clarke

• "This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one."

• "Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering."

• "The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale."

• "Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software."

• "The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale."