Learning is good in and of itself...the mothers of the Jewish ghettos of the east would pour honey on a book so the children would know that learning is sweet.. And the parents who settled hungry Kansas would take their children in from the fields when a teacher came.\!George Bush, Acceptance Speech, Republican Party Convention. Aug. 1988
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The Congress will push me to raise taxes and I'll say no, and they'll push, and I'll say no, and they'll push again. And I'll say to them, read my lips, no new taxes.\!George Bush, Republican Party Convention. Aug 1988
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We meet on democracy's front porch, a good place to talk as neighbors and as friends. For this is a day when our nation is made whole, when our differences, for a moment, are suspended.\!George Bush
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We know what works: Freedom works. We know what's right: Freedom is right. We know how to secure a more just and prosperous life for man on Earth: through free markets, free speech, free elections, and the exercise of free will unhampered by the state.\!George Bush
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This is the age of the offered hand. We can't turn back clocks, and I don't want to. But when our fathers were young, Mr. Speaker, our differences ended at the water's edge.\!George Bush
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A President is neither prince nor pope, and I don't seek a window on men's souls. In fact, I yearn for a greater tolerance, an easy-goingness about each other's attitudes and way of life.\!George Bush
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Today we celebrate the mystery of American renewal. This ceremony is held in the depth of winter, but by the words we speak and the faces we show the world, we force the spring. A spring reborn in the world's oldest democracy\!William Jefferson Clinton
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Though we march to the music of our time, our mission is timeless.\!William Jefferson Clinton
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There is nothing WRONG with America that cannot be cured by what is RIGHT with America.\!William Jefferson Clinton
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Anyone who has ever watched a child's eyes wander into sleep knows what posterity is. Posterity is the world to come, the world for whom hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and to whom we bear sacred responsibilities.\!William Jefferson Clinton
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Because of what America is and what America has done, a firmer courage, a higher hope, inspires the heart of all humanity.\!Calvin Coolidge
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The narrow fringe of States along the Atlantic seaboard advanced its frontiers across the hills and plains of an intervening continent until it passed down the golden slope to the Pacific.\!Calvin Coolidge
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We believe that we can best serve our own country and most successfully discharge our obligations to humanity by continuing to be openly and candidly, intensely and scrupulously, American.\!Calvin Coolidge
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We can not permit ourselves to be narrowed and dwarfed by slogans and phrases. It is not the adjective, but the substantive, which is of real importance. It is not the name of the action, but the result of the action, which is the chief concern.\!Calvin Coolidge
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a display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations\!Calvin Coolidge
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Peace will come when there is realization that only under a reign of law, based on righteousness and supported by the religious conviction of the brotherhood of man, can there be any hope of a complete and satisfying life. Parchment will fail, the sword will fail, it is only the spiritual nature of man that can be triumphant.\!Calvin Coolidge
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Economy is idealism in its most practical form.\!Calvin Coolidge
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The property of the country belongs to the people of the country. Their title is absolute.\!Calvin Coolidge
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Those who disregard the rules of society are not exhibiting a superior intelligence, are not promoting freedom and independence, are not following the path of civilization, but are displaying the traits of ignorance, of servitude, of savagery, and treading the way that leads back to the jungle.\!Calvin Coolidge
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Why wouldn't an enhanced deterrent, a more stable peace, a better prospect to denying the ones who enter conflict in the first place to have a reduction of offensive systems and an introduction to defensive capability. I believe that is the route this country will eventually go.\!Dan Quayle
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Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.\!Dan Quayle
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Mars is essentially in the same orbit... somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.\!Dan Quayle
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Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is IN the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.\!Dan Quayle
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What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.\!Dan Quayle
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I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.\!Dan Quayle
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One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.\!Dan Quayle
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If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.\!Dan Quayle
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It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America.\!Dan Quayle
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Target prices? How that works? I know quite a bit about farm policy. I come from Indiana, which is a farm state. Deficiency payments - which are the key - that is what gets money into the farmer's hands. We got loan, uh, rates, we got target, uh, prices, uh, I have worked very closely with my senior colleague, (Indiana Sen.) Richard Lugar, making sure that the farmers of Indiana are taken care of.\!Dan Quayle on being asked to define the term "target prices."
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I not going to focus on what I have done in the past what I stand for, what I articulate to the American people. The American people will judge me on what I am saying and what I have done in the last 12 years in the Congress.\!Dan Quayle
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I want to be Robin to Bush's Batman.\!Dan Quayle
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We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.\!Dan Quayle
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The US has a vital interest in that area of the country. Dan Quayle referring to Latin America.\!Dan Quayle
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Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself.\!Dan Quayle
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Who would have predicted... that Dubcek, who brought the tanks in Czechoslovakia in 1968 is now being proclaimed a hero in Czechoslovakia. Unbelievable.\!Dan Quayle. Actually, Dubcek was the leader of the Prague Spring.
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May our nation continue to be the beakon of hope to the world.\!The Quayle's 1989 Christmas card.
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Well, it looks as if the top part fell on the bottom part.\!Dan Quayle referring to the collapsed section of the 880 freeway after the San Francisco earthquake of 1989.
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getting [cruise missiles] more accurate so that we can have precise precision.\!Dan Quayle
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I can identify with steelworkers. I can identify with workers that have had a difficult time.\!Dan Quayle
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[I will never have] another Jimmy Carter grain embargo, Jimmy, Jimmy Carter, Jimmy Carter grain embargo, Jimmy Carter grain embargo.\!Dan Quayle
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Certainly, I know what to do, and when I am Vice President and I will be there will be contingency plans under different sets of situations and I tell you what, I'm not going to go out and hold a news conference about it. I'm going to put it in a safe and keep it there! Does that answer your question?\!Dan Quayle when asked what he would do if he assumed the Presidency,1988
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Lookit, I've done it their way this far and now it's my turn. I'm my own handler. Any questions? Ask me ... There's not going to be any more handler stories because I'm the handler ... I'm Doctor Spin.\!Dan Quayle responding to press reports his aides having to, in effect, "potty train" him.
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I would guess that there's adequate low-income housing in this country.\!Dan Quayle
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Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.\!Dan Quayle
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The real question for 1988 is whether we're going to go forward to tomorrow or past to the to the back!\!Dan Quayle
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We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.\!Dan Quayle
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We'll let the sunshine in and shine on us, because today we're happy and tomorrow we'll be even happier.\!Dan Quayle
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We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world.\!Dan Quayle
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This election is about who's going to be the next President of the United States!\!Dan Quayle
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First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.\!Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Plenty is at our doorstep, but a generous use of it languishes in the very sight of the supply.\!Franklin D. Roosevelt
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When there is no vision the people perish.\!Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Democratic government has innate capacity to protect its people against disasters once considered inevitable, to solve problems once considered unsolvable... We refused to leave the problems of our common welfare to be solved by the winds of chance and the hurricanes of disaster.\!Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The essential democracy of our Nation and the safety of our people depend not upon the absence of power, but upon lodging it with those whom the people can change or continue at stated intervals through an honest and free system of elections.\!Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Shall we pause now and turn our back upon the road that lies ahead? Shall we call this the promised land? Or, shall we continue on our way? For "each age is a dream that is dying, or one that is coming to birth."\!Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live.\!Franklin D. Roosevelt
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A nation, like a person, has a body that must be fed and clothed and housed, invigorated and rested, in a manner that measures up to the objectives of our time.\!Franklin D. Roosevelt
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A nation, like a person, has a mind that must be kept informed and alert, that must know itself, that understands the hopes and the needs of its neighbors all the other nations that live within the narrowing circle of the world.\!Franklin D. Roosevelt
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And a nation, like a person, has something deeper, something more permanent, something larger than the sum of all its parts. It is that something which matters most to its future which calls forth the most sacred guarding of its present.\!Franklin D. Roosevelt
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In the days and in the years that are to come we shall work for a just and honorable peace, a durable peace, as today we work and fight for total victory in war.\!Franklin D. Roosevelt
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We can and we will achieve such a peace.\!Franklin D. Roosevelt
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We have learned that we cannot live alone, at peace; that our own well-being is dependent on the well-being of other nations far away. We have learned that we must live as men, not as ostriches, nor as dogs in the manger.\!Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.\!W.C. Fields
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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.\!Gustave Flaubert
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Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.\!Milton Friedman
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Governments never learn. Only people learn.\!Milton Friedman
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A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.\!Robert Frost
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The politician is someone who deals in man's problems of adjustment. To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.\!Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Justice is incidental to law and order.\!J. Edgar Hoover
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.\!Victor Hugo
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The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.\!Hubert H Humphrey
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Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.\!Thomas Huxley
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Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.\!Thomas Jefferson
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I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing...\!Thomas Jefferson
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Most bad government has grown out of too much government.\!Thomas Jefferson
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.\!Thomas Jefferson
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A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither.\!Thomas Jefferson
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Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on them [public offices], a rottenness begins in his conduct.\!Thomas Jefferson
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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it and then misapplying the wrong remedies.\!Groucho Marx
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There is only one way to kill capitalism - by taxes, taxes, and more taxes.\!Karl Marx
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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.\!Karl Marx
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A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.\!H L Mencken
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.\!H L Mencken
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Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage.\!H L Mencken
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Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of jackals by jackasses.\!H L Mencken
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Economic independence is the foundation of the only sort of freedom worth a damn.\!H L Mencken
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Government under democracy is thus government by orgy, almost by orgasm.\!H L Mencken
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I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.\!H L Mencken
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In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.\!H L Mencken
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It has been the scheme of the Christian Church, and of all the other invented systems of religion, to hold man in ignorance of the Creator, as it is of Governments to hold man in ignorance of his rights. The systems of the one are as false as those of the other, and are calculated for mutual support.\!Thomas Paine
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No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other poor bastards die for their country.\!General George S Patton
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Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.\!Laurence J. Peter
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Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.\!Plato
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The rulers of the State are the only ones who should have the privilege of lying, whether at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the State.\!Plato
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...But when he [the people's champion] has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.\!Plato
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Once a ruler becomes religious, it [becomes] impossible for you to debate with him. Once someone rules in the name of religion, your lives become hell.\!Colonel Moamar al Qaddafi
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Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.\!John Quinton
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Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.\!Ronald Reagan
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A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.\!James Reston
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The more you observe politics, the more you've go to admit that each party is worse than the other.\!Will Rogers
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I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.\!Will Rogers
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Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.\!Will Rogers
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There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.\!Will Rogers
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Government investigations have always contributed more to our amusement than they have to our knowledge.\!Will Rogers
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The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice.\!Washington DC Mayor Marion Barry
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I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law in the 1600's. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and he was not a Republican.\!Washington DC Mayor Marion Barry
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What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?\!Washington DC Mayor Marion Barry
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People blame me because these water mains break, but I ask you, if the water mains didn't break, would it be my responsibility to fix them then? WOULD IT!?!\!Washington DC Mayor Marion Barry
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I am a great mayor; I am an upstanding Christian man; I am an intelligent man; I am a deeply educated man; I am a humble man.\!Washington DC Mayor Marion Barry
