"I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat." - Will Rogers
"In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it." - Harry S. Truman
"I must say acting was good training for the political life which lay ahead for us." - Nancy Reagan
"I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself." - Ronald Reagan
"If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'" - Lyndon Johnson
"Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber." - Plato
"And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups." - Wendell Willkie
"Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening." - Bill Clinton
"I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning." - Adlai E. Stevenson
"If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks." - Doug Larson
"Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times." - Winston Churchill
"Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports." - George Washington
"An empty stomach is not a good political adviser." - Albert Einstein
"Political necessities sometimes turn out to be political mistakes." - George Bernard Shaw
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it." - Mark Twain
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies." - Groucho Marx
"A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away." - Barry Goldwater
"No man is free who depends on his government for his sustenance, job, home, or hope." - John Perkins
"Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for a President. One hopes it is the same half." - Gore Vidal
"A politician thinks of the next election - a statesman of the next generation." - James Freeman Clarke
