In Washington , D.C. there can never be a building of greater height than the Washington Monument. On the aluminum cap, atop the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., are displayed two words: Laus Deo.
No one can see these words. In fact, most visitors to the monument are totally unaware they are even there and for that matter, probably couldn’t care less. Politics is an inexact science. - Otto von Bismarck A week is a long time in politics. - Harold Wilson Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. - Londo Molari Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. - Henry Brooks Adams English Wrestling Champion: A lord of the ring - Daffynitions joe-ks.com Bulldozing: Going to sleep during a political speech. - 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 Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. - Albert Einstein An honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere. - Mark Twain Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors. - Ralph Waldo Emerson It's a terrible shame that politics has become show business. - Sydney Pollack To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, he has no experience with it. - Greek Proverb Every woman dreams of her own political career and her own place in life. - Raisa M. Gorbachev American Politics: A form of socialism for the rich, including the politicians. - Gregory Nunn A filmmaker we almost lost to politics... my friend and colleague, Warren Beatty. - Jack Nicholson Personally, I'm against political jokes. Too often they get elected to office. - Henny Youngman Work for the Lord. The pay isn't much, but the retirement plan is out of this world. - Unknown That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves. - Thomas Jefferson If I had only three years to serve the Lord, I would spend two of them studying and preparing. - Donald G Barnhouse In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination. - Irving Layton The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. - Daniel P Moynihan If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. - Milton Friedman At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. - Shirley Chisholm I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me. Nothing. Zero. - George Carlin “But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord." "It might to keep it open.” - Ursula K. Le Guin I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other. - Napoleon Bonaparte Very few of these panic-mongers have any personal knowledge of the countries that are already under blackshirt government. - Lord Rothermere Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. - Ambrose Bierce The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. - Plato Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. - Ronald Reagan The man who invented the zip fastener was today honoured with a lifetime peerage. He will now be known as the Lord of the Flies. - Ronnie Corbett The workers' and peasants' government proposes to all warring peoples... negotiations leading to a just, democratic peace. - Lenin 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 In this year, King Aethelstan, Lord of Warriors, ring-giver to men... won eternal glory, in battle with sword edges, around Brunaburh. - Unknown I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper's wounds, I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience? - Mother Teresa I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice? - C S Lewis 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 Our ancestors believed in magic, prayers, trickery, browbeating and bullying. I think it would be fair to sum that up as 'Irish politics'. - Flann O'Brien 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 see also Government & Religious Sections |
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