Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Politicians

Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

For many, the American dream has become a nightmare.

Good governance with good intentions is the hallmark of our government. Implementation with integrity is our core passion.

Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.

Leadership can not be measured in a poll or even in the result of an election. It can only be truly seen with the benefit of time. From the perspective of 20 years, not 20 days.

We need to remain a nation that doesn't just welcome but that celebrates legal immigrants who come here seeking to pursue the American Dream.

Most police officers are good cops and good people.

Putin's Russia is our adversary and moral opposite. It is committed to the destruction of the post-war, rule-based world order built on American leadership and the primacy of our political and economic values.

We really need a public-interest government that is not taking marching orders from the fossil-fuel industry and the banks and the war profiteers. We really need a government that is acting on our behalf.

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong.

Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together.

This death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. This is what makes it so frightening. This is what causes so many to engage in a sort of mental diversion. They don't want to confront this horror. So they rush off in search of more comprehensible things to hate.

I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.

Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.

I've been so blessed to be part of a family that has dedicated its life to public service.

If you are willing to look at another person's behavior toward you as a reflection of the state of their relationship with themselves rather than a statement about your value as a person. then you will, over a period of time, cease to react at all.

Patriotism is love of country. But you can't love your country without loving your countrymen and countrywomen. We don't always have to agree, but we must empower each other, we must find the common ground, we must build bridges across our differences to pursue the common good.

I think life is sacred, whether it's abortion or the death penalty.

We will rebuild, renew and remain the capital of the free world.

Don't underestimate your opponent, but don't overestimate them, either.

Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat.

We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.

And the greatest lesson that mom ever taught me though was this one. She told me there would be times in your life when you have to choose between being loved and being respected. Now she said to always pick being respected.

Multicultural societies are multi-conflict societies.

Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.

The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it's all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it.

National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.

When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up. You have to say something; you have to do something.

A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian. And you devalue the citizenship of every Canadian in this place and in this country when you break down and make it conditional for anyone.

There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know.

Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.

I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of my life, really, since I was a child, but at 16 years of age, I fully surrendered my life over to Christ. At that point, as a teenager, I began to grasp the concept of Christ's true love and forgiveness.

To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.

If we want an international trade deal that advances the interests of our own people, then perhaps we don't need a 'fast-track' but a regular track: where the president sends us any proposal he deems worthy, and we review it on its own merits.

Globalization can be a great opportunity.

The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomings for his greater good. I am humbled by my own limitations. But where I am weak, He is strong.

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.

I believe that in life, you have to give things your best shot, do your best. You have to focus on what needs to be done, do the right thing, not the popular thing.

It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.

When we talk about the kind of folks whose lives will be made better by raising the minimum wage, we're not talking about a couple teenagers earning extra spending money to supplement their allowance. We're talking about providers and breadwinners. Working Americans with bills to pay and mouths to feed.

The rise in world oil prices has been larger than anyone forecast.

Climate change is crap.

I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization, or both.

The Obama administration now has regulations that tells them that they can no longer promote marriage to these young girls. They can no longer promote marriage as a way of avoiding poverty and bad choices that they make in their life. They can no longer even teach abstinence education. They have to be neutral with respect to how people behave.

Europe is my home, Europe is my continent. Europe is where we live. The European Union is a political bureaucratic organization that took away our identity and our national sovereignty. So, I would get rid of the European Union and be a nation-state again.

I think people involved in politics make good actors. Acting and politics both involve fooling people. People like being fooled by actors. When you get right down to it, they probably like being fooled by politicians even more. A skillful actor will make you think, but a skillful politician will make you never have to think.

I consider myself a selfie specialist.

Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.

If we had decided on January 5, in the new House of Representatives, to make no new spending bills, the debt ceiling would've still been hit, because, those are bills that are coming in as a result of purchases and commitments made by the administration and the previous Congress.

NATO is the most important military alliance in world history.

Not voting is not a protest. It is a surrender.

If you poke the Russian bear with a stick ,he will respond.

Democracy is like a streetcar. When you come to your stop, you get off.

Advances in automation, artificial intelligence and robotics, while increasing productivity, will also cause major upheavals to the workforce.

Reversing deforestation is complicated; planting a tree is simple.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

I hate prejudice, discrimination, and snobbishness of any kind - it always reflects on the person judging and not the person being judged. Everyone should be treated equally.