Madeleine Albright
Shedding light on U.S. politics
On being a woman and a diplomat
Madeleine Korbelová Albright (born May 15, 1937 in Prague). The first woman to become the United States Secretary of State. Nominated by U.S. President Bill Clinton on December 5, 1996
QuotaBillsThere is no gambling like politics. - Benjamin Disraeli
Politics have no relation to morals. - Niccolo Machiavelli
Man is not free unless government is limited. - Ronald Reagan
There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand. - Annie Besant
You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook. - Harry S Truman
A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. - James Reston
Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest thing in the nicest way. - Isaac Goldberg
The most important political office is that of the private citizen. - Louis D. Brandeis
I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat. - Will Rogers
To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, he has no experience with it. - Greek Proverb
The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government. - Edward Abbey
Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week. - Will Rogers
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. - Mao Zedong
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. - Will Rogers
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. - Jacob Bronowski
Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. - Bill Moyers
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. - P.J. O'Rourke
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it. - Mark Twain
In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination. - Irving Layton
So, if we lie to the government, it's a felony.
But if they lie to us, it's politics. - Bill Murray
The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. - Daniel P Moynihan
Animals are like little children a bit. They're simple. They don't have politics driving them. - Annabelle Sabloff
Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support. - Mikhail Gorbachev
A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you will look forward to the trip. - Caskie Stinnett
When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves. - George Pataki
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. - Thurgood Marshall
Taxpayer - someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. - Ronald Reagan
Canada's political parties spend a few years in opposition and then govern as if it's permanent payback time. - Bob Rae
It's especially hard if the government is not providing services, or is even conducting ethnic cleansing against you. - Paul Harvey
Very few of these panic-mongers have any personal knowledge of the countries that are already under blackshirt government. - Lord Rothermere
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. - Thomas Jefferson
It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen. - George MacDonald
We're at a point in history where everyone needs to pay attention to politics. Too much is at stake for us to be apathetic. - Kevin Costner
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are,
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan
I am quite sure now that often in matters concerning religion and politics, a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkeys. - Mark Twain
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. - Aristotle
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my country. I make up for lost time when I am at home. - Winston Churchill
Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him, better take a closer look at the American Indian. - Henry Ford
I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.' - Ralph Nader
Being in politics is like being a football coach; you have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important. - Eugene McCarthy