Concession Speech

Good government is good politics. - Richard J. Daley

Politics is the art of the possible. - Otto von Bismarck

The gun is not out of Irish politics. - Ian Paisley

Speech is the small change of silence. - George Meredith

One cannot govern with "buts." - Charles de Gaulle

Don't vote; it only encourages them. - Unknown

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs. - Isaiah Berlin

Feudalism: It's your Count that votes - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith. - J. William Fulbright

Man is not free unless government is limited. - Ronald Reagan

Tears at times have all the weight of speech. - Ovid

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. - Henry Brooks Adams

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty. - Terence

I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics. - Molly Ivins

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. - Charles de Talleyrand

Politics is the art of controlling your environment. - Hunter S. Thompson

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. - James Madison

Political War: One in which everyone shoots from the lip - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Government cannot and must not replace private initiative. - Kim Campbell

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party. - Herbert Hoover

A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves. - Bertrand de Jouvenel

How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese? - Charles de Gaulle

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. - Reinhold Niebuhr

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future. - Jimmy Carter

Men are governed only by serving them; the rule is without exception. - V. Cousin

We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate. - Kin Hubbard

Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech. - Evangel

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for. - Will Rogers

Democrats haven't been this upset since Republicans freed their slaves. - Unknown

A filmmaker we almost lost to politics... my friend and colleague, Warren Beatty. - Jack Nicholson

To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation. - Madeleine Albright

My sheer existence is like a political act to a lot of people. It's not to me. - Grimes

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people. - Oscar Wilde

Speak when you're angry and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret. - L.J. Peter

By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over. - Gore Vidal

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. - P.J. O'Rourke

Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me. - Harry S Truman

In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman. - Margaret Thatcher

I am on your Walk of Fame in Toronto. My sense of humour is Canadian. But I can't vote. - Donald Sutherland

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy. - Bertrand Russell

Passover affirms the great truth that liberty is the inalienable right of every human being. - Morris Joseph

Officialese: A government language where you can understand the words, but not the sentences - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education. - Jules Michelet

In a democracy, the one thing that cannot be done is to destroy its trust, its hope, its idealism. - Teresa Heinz

It's our experience that political leaders don't always mean the opposite of what they say. - Abba Eban

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented. - Molly Ivins

Democracy is very different in U.S. and A. from Kazakhstan. In America, woman can vote, but horse cannot! - Borat Sagdiyev

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

Love, like democracy, can survive almost any attack - except neglect, indifference and maybe an arrow in the back. - Unknown

Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry. - Joseph Heller

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. - Charles de Gaulle

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin

He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks. - Douglas Jerrold

It's especially hard if the government is not providing services, or is even conducting ethnic cleansing against you. - Paul Harvey

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. - Groucho Marx

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

Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends. - Mary Catherwood

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are,
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. - John W. Gardner

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. - Aristotle

The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed. - Publilius Syrus

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

In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise. - Malcolm Muggeridge

Regarded simply as a politician, and compared with the other leading political figures of our time, how clean a smell he has managed to leave behind. - Mahatma Gandhi