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Itch
12 May 2010, 08:36am
As the title states post your favorite quotes made by politicians.


"I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant."
Robert McCloskey, State Department spokesman (attributed)

Drox
12 May 2010, 08:43am
"My job is a decision-making job. And as a result, I make a lot of decisions." --The Decider, George W. Bush


''There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.''
—President George W. Bush, Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002.

SgtJoo
12 May 2010, 08:58am
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. -Charles de Gaulle

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where they is no river. -Nikita Khrushchev

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. -William Gladstone

Delirium
12 May 2010, 09:07am
Anything on this page

http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Dan_Quayle/

Red
12 May 2010, 10:04am
"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government"

-- Thomas Jefferson, 1 Thomas Jefferson Papers, 334


^ anti-second amendment pussy faggots need to read that and realize they weren't just talking about fucking militias

Drox
12 May 2010, 10:21am
"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government"

-- Thomas Jefferson, 1 Thomas Jefferson Papers, 334


^ anti-second amendment pussy faggots need to read that and realize they weren't just talking about fucking militias

"Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth."
George Washington

lol made me think of that qoute

"Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."
George Washington

"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."
George Washington

"If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War."
George Washington

"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty."
George Washington

PotshotPolka
12 May 2010, 11:52am
"You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans." -Ronald Reagan

"A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject." -Winston Churchill

Dracula
12 May 2010, 01:59pm
Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.

I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature.

The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.
-Adolf Hitler

If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference," you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.

Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.
-Joseph Stalin


How I do love my dictators.

Gumpy
12 May 2010, 03:23pm
Mostly anything by Robert McNamara. I loved Fog of War.

Bad Dog
12 May 2010, 03:48pm
"Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream" George W. Bush.

Shadowex3
12 May 2010, 05:13pm
"Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country." -Herman Goering, Nuremberg Trials

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." Theodore Roosevelt, (Republican President, 1901-1909) (note: the Republican party was originally LEFT wing during this time period)

Dracula
13 May 2010, 08:17pm
Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future

-Hitler

TheTruth
13 May 2010, 08:21pm
Not a big politics guy but I like this one:

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

-Winston Churchill

/dev/null
14 May 2010, 11:06am
...Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money. - Margaret Thatcher

"In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem." - Ronald Reagan

"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty, than those attending too small a degree of it." - Thomas Jefferson

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inherent and inalienable Rights; that among these, are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness; that to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

SgtJoo
14 May 2010, 12:12pm
...Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money. - Margaret Thatcher

"In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem." - Ronald Reagan

"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty, than those attending too small a degree of it." - Thomas Jefferson

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inherent and inalienable Rights; that among these, are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness; that to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Funny how you can tell from a few quotes where someone's political affiliations lie. :lol:

Sander Cohen
14 May 2010, 03:52pm
Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship. ...voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country. -Hermann Göring

"War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun." -Mao Zedong

SgtJoo
14 May 2010, 06:38pm
Oh and I'm cheating by putting this but oh well...

General Jack D. Ripper: Mandrake, do you recall what Clemenceau once said about war?

Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: No, I don't think I do, sir, no.

General Jack D. Ripper: He said war was too important to be left to the generals. When he said that, 50 years ago, he might have been right. But today, war is too important to be left to politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought. I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

Shadowex3
15 May 2010, 03:33am
...Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money. - Margaret Thatcher

That's hilarious considering that every first world nation on this earth is a socialist country.

PotshotPolka
15 May 2010, 09:05am
That's hilarious considering that every first world nation on this earth has a welfare state.

Fixed.


Oh and I'm cheating by putting this but oh well...

General Jack D. Ripper: Mandrake, do you recall what Clemenceau once said about war?

Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: No, I don't think I do, sir, no.

General Jack D. Ripper: He said war was too important to be left to the generals. When he said that, 50 years ago, he might have been right. But today, war is too important to be left to politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought. I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

FLUORIDE WATER!!!! Good movie.

SgtJoo
15 May 2010, 09:45am
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Dracula
16 May 2010, 06:58am
Some may question your right to destroy ten million people. But those who understand realise that you have no right to let them live.

Shadowex3
17 May 2010, 09:30pm
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt

Drox
17 May 2010, 09:39pm
"An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows."
Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion."
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Caution
17 May 2010, 09:51pm
"Absolute power corrupts absolutely."

"Let them eat cake."

Shadowex3
18 May 2010, 07:06pm
Let them eat cake is almost universally misunderstood. A more proper translation would actually be "Well then if there is no bread they have our permission to eat cake instead". She was actually attempting to aid the people, and the reason it inflamed them was because it proved she was so out of touch that she had no idea that when she was told the people had no bread it meant they had NOTHING to eat, not that they had no bread but there was plenty of cake.

SgtJoo
18 May 2010, 07:18pm
Let them eat cake is almost universally misunderstood. A more proper translation would actually be "Well then if there is no bread they have our permission to eat cake instead". She was actually attempting to aid the people, and the reason it inflamed them was because it proved she was so out of touch that she had no idea that when she was told the people had no bread it meant they had NOTHING to eat, not that they had no bread but there was plenty of cake.

There's no actual proof Marie-Antoinette ever said it though.

Tcp-Kill
20 May 2010, 09:55am
In the field of human conflict, never was so much owed by so many to so few.

-Churchill

(von dutch) delta force 8
20 May 2010, 11:08am
"It's a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations." - Winston Churchill ;)

Shadowex3
21 May 2010, 12:35am
"When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?" - John Maynard Keynes

Drox
21 May 2010, 12:37am
"Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason." ~Author Unknown

Caution
22 May 2010, 07:42pm
Let them eat cake is almost universally misunderstood. A more proper translation would actually be "Well then if there is no bread they have our permission to eat cake instead". She was actually attempting to aid the people, and the reason it inflamed them was because it proved she was so out of touch that she had no idea that when she was told the people had no bread it meant they had NOTHING to eat, not that they had no bread but there was plenty of cake.

Right.

Killer
23 May 2010, 01:31am
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." George W Bush

lolololol

APenguin
6 Aug 2010, 12:49am
"We got an issue in America. Too many good docs are gettin out of buisness. Too many OBGYN's are unable to practice their, their love, with women all across this country." - George W. Bush

tacosndew
6 Aug 2010, 11:58pm
Let them eat cake is almost universally misunderstood. A more proper translation would actually be "Well then if there is no bread they have our permission to eat cake instead". She was actually attempting to aid the people, and the reason it inflamed them was because it proved she was so out of touch that she had no idea that when she was told the people had no bread it meant they had NOTHING to eat, not that they had no bread but there was plenty of cake.

I've heard another interpretation of that quote in which the "cake" she was referring to is actually the black burnt crap you get in an oven after you bake something. I've heard it both ways too many times.

lolzomgz
7 Aug 2010, 01:25pm
"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." -- Winston Churchill

Boobcake
9 Aug 2010, 04:18am
In the field of human conflict, never was so much owed by so many to so few.

-Churchill


"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." -- Winston Churchill

Read the thread.

Sniper
15 Aug 2010, 04:59pm
"I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." -Robert Oppenheimer
(Not really a political quote but historical nonetheless.)

Focus_
17 Aug 2010, 10:57am
"I don't support abortion, but I support killing babies." - Maddox