Famous Quotes

"Politics is an act of faith you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public."

George McGovern 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 George McGovern

• "My dad was a Methodist minister."

• "Politics is an act of faith you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public."

• "I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society."

• "Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner."

• "I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government."