Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American politician Michael Dukakis.
Last updated on April 15, 2025.
Michael Stanley Dukakis is an American retired lawyer and politician who served as Governor of Massachusetts from 1975 to 1979 and again from 1983 to 1991. He is the longest-serving governor in Massachusetts history and only the second Greek-American governor in U.S. history, after Spiro Agnew. He was nominated by the Democratic Party for president in the 1988 election, losing to the Republican nominee, Vice President George H. W. Bush.
Like a good general, I treated everyone who wasn't with me as against me.
I do not believe in people owning guns. Guns should be owned only by the police and military. I am going to do everything I can to disarm this state.
Like a good general, I treated everyone who wasnt with me as against me.
Yes, I'm proud to be a liberal.
The students at Gallaudet University deserve our congratulations. They educated the nation about deafness, and won a long overdue victory for all disabled people.
Our greatest strength comes not from what we possess, but from what we believe; not from what we have, but from who we are.
What do you do if youre in a room with Muammar Qaddafi, Saddam Hussein, and John Sununu, and you have a gun with only two bullets? Shoot Sununu twice.