Politics(235)

"Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving."
Robertson Davies

"I am not anti-American. But I am strongly pro-Canadian."
John G. Diefenbaker

"The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place."
John G. Diefenbaker

"A billion here and a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money."
Everett Dirksen

"Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance."
William O. Douglas

"The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith."
John Foster Dulles

"Beguiled by George S. Bush's easy smile and casual indifference to the details, we are on the brink of electing him to office. This isn't choosing a president, it's casting the lead in a sitcom about the presidency."
Roger Ebert

"The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them."
Albert Einstein

"All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field."
Albert Einstein

"Oh, that lovely title, ex-president."
Dwight D. Eisenhower