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American Politician Inspirational Quotes (833)

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Having now reached a point where danger might be reasonably apprehended from strolling war parties of Indians, spies were kept in advance and strict diligence observed in the duty of sentinels.
William Henry Ashley
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I had the Big Horn river explored from Wind River mountain to my place of embarkation.
William Henry Ashley
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If we taught children to speak, they'd never learn.
William Hull
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One problem with ideas, however valid, is that they are static and impersonal, whereas a person is active and dynamic.
William Hull
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The greater the hold of government upon the life of the individual citizen, the greater the risk of war.
John Hospers
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Looking long term, a stronger, wealthier, and more stable Central America next door benefits the United States' own safety, security, and economy.
James T. Walsh
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When a child can be brought to tears, not from fear of punishment, but from repentance for his offence, he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from grief at one's own conduct, be sure there is an angel nestling in the bosom.
Horace Mann
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Jesse ain't running nothin' but his mouth.
Marion Barry
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We conceive of immortality as having a beginning, but no end but we conceive of eternity as having neither beginning nor end. Hence it is proper to speak of eternity as the attribute of God, but of immortality as the attribute of man.
Horace Mann
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As a society we're always so quick and able to spend money on lawyers for someone for incarceration, but we don't make the corresponding commitment to the preventative components of it.
Matt Gonzalez
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
B. Carroll Reece
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Go after the illegal employers. No free stuff. Take the handcuffs off law enforcement. They'll go home! They'll self-deport! The problem today is they break the law. They come across the border. And again, what's coming across that border today are bad guys!
Russell Pearce
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America's Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world.
John Doolittle
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Iran has long sponsored terrorists who carry out homicide bombings in Israeli cities. However, it is a mistake to believe the danger Iran poses is directed at Israel alone.
John Doolittle
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I had this notion that I could convince people who were skeptical of national Democrats to vote for me because I could bring home the bacon, or because I could find some personal pitch to them.
Brad Carson
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Why is it that there's more indignation over a photo of a prisoner with underwear on his head than over the video of a young American with no head at all?
Zell Miller
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Once upon a time, the most successful Democratic leader of them all, FDR, looked south and said I see one third of a nation ill-housed, ill clad, ill nourished. Today our national Democratic leaders look south and say, I see one third of a nation and it can go to hell.
Zell Miller
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Twenty years of votes can tell you much more about a man than twenty weeks of campaign rhetoric. Campaign talk tells people who you want them to think you are. How you vote tells people who you really are deep inside.
Zell Miller
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Will someone please explain to me the logic that says we can trust someone with a Boeing 747 in bad weather, but not with a Glock 9mm?
Zell Miller
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It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.
Zell Miller
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[T]ax cuts are not just something that all taxpayers deserve, but also the best way to curb government spending. It is the best kind of tax reform. If the money never reaches the table, Congress can't gobble it up.
Zell Miller
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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.
Marion Barry
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Regardless of the difficulties we may face individually, in our families, in our communities and in our nation, the old adage is still true - you can make excuses or you can make progress, but you cannot make both! The America I know doesn't make excuses.
Mia Love
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I want to be a better Chris Quinn. I don't want to be a different Chris Quinn.
Christine Quinn
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