Quotes About Politics

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The time is always right to do what is right.

Martin Luther King, Jr

Cowardice asks the question- Is it safe? Expediency asks the question- Is it politic? Vanity asks the question- Is it popular? But conscience asks the question- Is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position That is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; But one must take it because it is right.

Martin Luther King, Jr

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Margaret Thatcher

Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

Monty Python

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter.

Martin Luther King, Jr

I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it.

Mitch Hedberg

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.

George Washington

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.

Mark Twain

Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.

Kurt Vonnegut