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. All politics is local. - Thomas P O'Neil Diplomacy: Lying in state. - Oliver Herford Politics is an inexact science. - Otto von Bismarck Politics makes strange red-fellows. - Will Rogers Politics have no relation to morals. - Niccolo Machiavelli The gun is not out of Irish politics. - Ian Paisley English Wrestling Champion: A lord of the ring - Daffynitions joe-ks.com The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia. - Otto von Bismarck There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand. - Annie Besant Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets. - Ronald Reagan The Lord is with me; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me? - Bible Show me the right path, O Lord; point out the road for me to follow. - Bible Ultimatum: In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions - Daffynitions joe-ks.com To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. - Will Durant I thank the Lord for the great principle of repentance and forgiveness. - Gordon B Hinckley The secret of political bargaining is to look more strong than what you really are. - Subhash Bose The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth; and he that is wise will not abhor them. - The Bible I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government. - Woody Allen A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. - Robert Frost Officialese: A government language where you can understand the words, but not the sentences - Daffynitions joe-ks.com In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination. - Irving Layton Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented. - Molly Ivins Politics, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. - Richard Armour 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 One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government. - Donald Trump The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. - Theodor Adorno Politics is the only business where doing nothing other than making the other guy look bad is an acceptable outcome. - Mark Warner Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers. - Jamie Farr In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. - Charles de Gaulle Trust God for the impossible - miracles are His department. Our job is to do our best, letting the Lord do the rest. - David Jeremiah I thank the Lord I no longer have to go to work. I just get out of bed in the morning, and there it is - all around me. - Unknown “But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord." "It might to keep it open.” - Ursula K. Le Guin When it comes to politics, I sit down on a sofa and grab some popcorn - or sometimes I crouch down in order not to get shot. - Sergey Galitsky Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people. - Joe Biden Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. - Oscar Ameringer Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. - Aristotle Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the Lord God is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation. - Unknown 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 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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