Politician Quotes

They're pushing credit cards. They don't take Visa, but they do take American Express, or they don't take this one, but they take that one, or you'd better bring this one, or if you forget who you are, look on your credit card; it will be there.

The rest of the world wants our cash; we like plastic.

The deal we made was that if we would change our law to invite them to come to South Dakota - that's what they wanted, the invitation - if we would change our law to invite them to come to South Dakota, he would guarantee South Dakota 400 Citibank jobs.

So people ought to be free to leave here, but there ought to be opportunity for them to come home.

If you knew the upward mobility that South Dakota's kids have gotten from the opportunity to intern and to work and to be employed and to have upward mobility in that company and move on, it's been phenomenal for South Dakota.

I like practicing law.

I bought a railroad during this period of time.

Folks can't carry around money in their pocket. They've got to go to an ATM machine, and they've got to pay a few dollars to get their own dollars out of the machine. Who ever thought you'd pay cash to get cash? That's where we've gotten to.

Citibank had nothing to do with getting reelected.

There's a world out there, and you've got to look at both sides of the mountain in your lifetime.

My fate is in the hands of almighty Allah. I will deliver to the Gambian people and if I have to rule this country for one billion years, I will, if Allah says so.

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.

Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.

The training of the schools should be extended to the heart as well as the mind and hand.

The teacher who would be true to his mission and accomplish the most good, must give prominence to moral as well as intellectual instruction.

The night cometh when no man can work.

I must work the works of Him Who sent me while it is yet day.

Among those best known, their highest ambition is to build American homes, possess American furniture, dress in American clothes, adopt the American style of living and be American citizens.

If you don't like affirmative action, what is your plan to guarantee a level playing field of opportunity?

Politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live.

Behind closed doors they had what were legendary battles I hear but when the doors opened there was absolute unity. Not a crack could be found. No separation whatsoever. They were locked together for the good of the community.

The president's decision yesterday to set into motion the development of the hydrogen bomb... has placed us on the knife-edge of history.

The best politics is no politics.

Those people who want to express their religious beliefs on public property should enjoy the same rights that we provide to those protesting the war in Iraq.

There's a lot of exaggerated talk about CAFTA, but it's actually a fairly routine trade agreement. Although it involves fairly small nations, they're still more important trade partners than places like Australia or many other larger nations.

There are many alternatives to embryonic stem cell research, alternatives with great potential. We need to support these and oppose creating life for the sole purpose of destroying it.

The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion.

The birth of democracy in Iraq is one of the great positive changes of our era.

Research and development needs permanent tax credits to build the technology that spurs our growth. But no government programs alone can get America's students to study more science and math; parents must push and help their children to meet this goal.