Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [161-180] of 769 Politics quotesPolitics QuotesPolitics Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?~ Marcus Tullius Cicero The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.~ Marcus Tullius Cicero The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.~ Marcus Tullius Cicero Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings.~ Quintus Tullius Cicero Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.~ Arthur C. Clarke The best results in the operation of a government wherein every citizen has a share largely depend upon a proper limitation of the purely partisan zeal and effort and a correct appreciation of the time when the heat of the partisan should be merged in the patriotism of the citizen. ... At this hour the animosities of political strife, the bitterness of partisan defeat, and the exultation of partisan triumph should be supplanted by an ungrudging acquiescence in the popular will and a sober, conscientious concern for the general weal. ... Public extravagance begets extravagance among the people.~ Grover Cleveland There's just no such thing as truth when it comes to him. He just says whatever sounds good and worries about it after the election.~ Bill Clinton We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans...~ Bill Clinton We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans...~ Bill Clinton Every time Bush talks about trust it makes chills run up and down my spine. The way he has trampled on the truth is a travesty of the American political system.~ Bill Clinton If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government's ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees.~ Bill Clinton It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is.~ Bill Clinton The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people.~ Bill Clinton When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans, it was assumed that the Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly.... [However, now] there's a lot of irresponsibility. And so a lot of people say there's too much freedom. When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it.~ Bill Clinton It depends on what the meaning of the word is. If the– if he– if "is" means is and never has been, that is not– that is one thing. If it means there is none, that was a completely true statement.... Now, if someone had asked me on that day, are you having any kind of sexual relations with Ms. Lewinsky, that is, asked me a question in the present tense, I would have said no. And it would have been completely true.~ Bill Clinton No one wants to get this (Lewinsky) matter behind us more than I do, except maybe all the rest of the American people,~ Bill Clinton God bless the America we are trying to create.~ Hillary Clinton I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president.~ Hillary Clinton This is a tremendous opportunity to restructure things to fit our vision.~ James Clyburn Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.~ Mark B. Cohen Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print