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| Democrats are the only reason to vote for Republicans | | Will Rogers | |
| Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics. | | Wendell Phillips | |
| Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week. | | Will Rogers | |
| Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House. | | John Fitzgerald Kennedy | |
| each candidate behaved well in the hope of being judged worthy of election. However, this system was disastrous when the city had become corrupt. For then it was not the most virtuous but the most powerful who stood for election, and the weak, even if virtuous, were too frightened to run for office. | | Niccolo Machiavelli | |
| Every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution | | Mark Twain | |
| Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is growing or swelling. | | Woodrow T. Wilson | |
| Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented. | | Molly Ivins | |
| Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action. | | George Washington | |
| He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past. | | George Orwell | |
| He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future. | | George Orwell | |
| I am for free commerce with all nations; political connection with none; and little or no diplomatic establishment | | George Washington | |
| I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting. | | Winston Churchill | |
| I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races - I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, | | Abraham Lincoln | |
| I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat. | | Will Smith | |
| I can not deny that all may be swept away. Broken by it, I, too, may be; bow to it I never will. The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause that we believe to be just; it shall not deter me. | | Abraham Lincoln | |
| I don't know a lot about politics, but I can recognise a good party man when I see one | | Mae West | |
| I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. | | Adlai E. Stevenson | |
| I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. | | Charles de Gaulle | |
| I have come to the conclusions that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. | | Charles de Gaulle | |
