Famous Quotes

"In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions."

Catherine the Great 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 Catherine the Great

• "I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all."

• "I beg you take courage the brave soul can mend even disaster."

• "I shall be an autocrat, that's my trade and the good Lord will forgive me, that's his."

• "A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache."

• "Power without a nation's confidence is nothing."