Politics(235)

"Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society."
Pope John Paul II

"My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised."
Jesse Jackson

"Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct."
Thomas Jefferson

"I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office."
Thomas Jefferson

"Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor."
Lady Bird Johnson

"It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms."
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

"Most of us are honest all the time, and all of us are honest most of the time."
Charles McC Mathias, Jr.

"I cannot help but wonder whether, by continuing and expanding the school lunch program, we aren't witnessing, if not encouraging, the slow demise of yet another American tradition: the brown bag. Perhaps we are beholding yet another break in the chain that links child to home."
Charles McC Mathias, Jr.

"My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight."
John F. Kennedy

"Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes."
Robert Kennedy