Famous Quotes

"It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy."

Stephen Leacock 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 Stephen Leacock

• "It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required."

• "I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."

• "Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica."

• "Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it."

• "Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl."