Politician Quotes

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

We are Indians, firstly and lastly.

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

Life should be great rather than long.

For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.

A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.

In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.

A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

Those of us who are pro-life should demand more from Congress.

Legislation that names a specific private organization to defund (rather than all organizations that engage in a particular activity) is improper and arguably unconstitutional.

In the state of Michigan, where I served in the state Legislature, there was a lot of shuffling of money between one year and the other to balance the budget.

If you're going to vote yes and change the law. You have to know what's in it. You can't depend on other people.

I haven't been in politics too long so that's a good thing.

I follow a set of principles, I follow the Constitution. And that's what I base my votes on. Limited government, economic freedom and individual liberty.

I don't have a particular go-to political blog.

Everyone knows about the substantive issues of concern, like federal health care, but very little is said about the process, the lack of accountability.

As a legislator, I saw how effective I could be by being transparent, posting and explaining all of my votes.

Through their work with fetal tissue, researchers hope to find ways to harness embryonic stem cells which have the ability to become any type of human cell and could provide new treatments for many illnesses.

They don't have special rights because we have civil rights laws that protect them. The laws work both ways.

These kids understood what is not immediately obvious; that they were going to pay the bills for tax cuts that had been passed today or in the last 4 years, and for the war in Iraq, because essentially we are borrowing money to do those things.

The Republicans in the House and the Bush administration are bankrupting this country.

The offshore ocean area under U.S. jurisdiction is larger than our land mass, and teems with plant and animal life, mineral resources, commerce, trade, and energy sources.

The mercury rule writers also ignored mercury's special qualities.

The argument on the other side of special rights is completely bogus. It's bogus because you could make exactly the same claim about racial or ethnic or religious minorities.

Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of diseases.