Envy is the basis of democracy.
—Bertrand Russell, 1930Quotes
I’m president of the United States, and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli!
—George H. W. Bush, 1990If you must take care that your opinions do not differ in the least from those of the person with whom you are talking, you might just as well be alone.
—Yoshida Kenko, c. 1330Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged.
—John Wilkes Booth, 1865All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.
—Al Smith, 1933In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1830I work for a government I despise for ends I think criminal.
—John Maynard Keynes, 1917Politics is the art of the possible.
—Otto von Bismarck, 1867The most hateful torment for men is to have knowledge of everything but power over nothing.
—Herodotus, c. 425 BCI am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.
—George Borrow, 1843You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.
—Mario Cuomo, 1985A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.
—Martin Luther King Jr., c. 1967Why has the government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
—Alexander Hamilton, 1787