Politician Quotes

Defense is not like other discretionary spending.

A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book.

Mother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesn't work.

The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Some things are too important to be left to the private sector.

MRSA, which is a kind of super bug mutant, is killing 10,000 people a year in Britain.

It's clear enough that there was substantial fraud in Ohio, thus delivering the Electoral College vote for President Bush.

I've never had a penny through oil deals and no one has produced a shred of evidence that I have.

I've had more than 12,000 emails from the United States. It's not easy in the United States to find out the email address of a British parliamentarian.

I'm demanding to be prosecuted. I'm begging to be prosecuted for perjury.

I think that both men, Bush and Blair, will be damned in history. Both men have made their respective countries the two most hated countries in the world.

I have never solicited nor received money from Iraq for our campaign against war and sanctions. I have never seen a barrel of oil, never owned one, never bought one, never sold one.

I came to declare that I am a friend to Arabs, at a time when it is not easy to be friend to Arabs, because nowadays those who have ambitions and interests would not befriend Arab.

George Bush doesn't represent any civilization!

Even if you only counted the votes that actually made it through the hoops in order to be cast, the president was really Al Gore.

Anyone will say anything under torture.

We say here that if you fall down in the United States, the ambulance man must feel for your wallet before he feels for your pulse.

There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.

I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Henry Kissinger is the greatest living war criminal in the world today, with the blood of millions of people in Vietnam and Cambodia and Laos and Chile and East Timor on his hands. He will never appear in a court or be behind bars.

Tony Blair will be remembered for nothing other than that he followed George W. Bush over a cliff; took the rest of us with them, and we haven't yet reached the bottom, I'm afraid.

It is only losers that are prosecuted.

I am an opponent of Saddam Hussein, but an opponent also, of the sanctions that have killed a million Iraqi children and an opponent of the United States' apparent desire to plunge the Middle East into a new and devastating war.

The big tyrants never face justice.

Socialism can only arrive by bicycle.

While a strong presence on our southern border is imperative, the border cannot be secured unless we enforce our internal laws and stop ignoring the open complicity of U.S. companies and foreign nations to promote illegal activities.

We are a nation of immigrants, but we are also a nation of laws.

The fifth amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees that no private property shall be taken for a public use without the payment of just compensation.

Since achieving their independence in 1992, the people of Croatia have built a democratic society based on the rule of law, respect for human rights, and a free market economy.

President Reagan is now at rest. We mourn his passing, but we are grateful for the gifts he gave us: a safer world, strong economic base, and a renewed belief in America's greatness.