Famous Quotes

"Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society."

E. L. Doctorow 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 E. L. Doctorow

• "It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."

• "Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society."

• "One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing."