Famous Quotes

"People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them."

Calvin Trillin 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 Calvin Trillin

• "Health food makes me sick."

• "The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found."

• "The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found."

• "I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still."

• "Health food makes me sick."