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“I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.”

“If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'”

“There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.”

Ifs Way Political Politics President Deals Congress One Way Going To Work Interruptions Incessantly

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“Some people would believe anything, especially if it eliminates awkward social and political problems.”

People Ifs Believe Problem Political Politics Social Awkward

Author:Thomas Balogh, Baron Balogh

“If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.”

Ifs Politics Produce Promise Officials Propose Public Officials

Author:Barbara Jordan

“Questions of such gravity go down to the very foundations of the government. If the provisions of the Constitution can be set aside by an act of Congress, where is the course of usurpation to end?”

Ifs Ends Government Political Courses Politics Constitution Foundation Congress Gravity Provision Usurpation

Author:Stephen Johnson Field

“If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.”

“Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.”

Ifs Political Politics Football Holes Motivational Sports Daylight

Author:John F. Kennedy

“I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.”

Ifs Politics Pay Vote Election Dear Following Generous Daddy Wire Dear God Landslides

Author:John F. Kennedy

“All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.”

Ifs World Might Political Opportunity Politics Wish Difficult Challenges Filled Our Time 4th Of July Tranquil

Book:The Quotable Robert F. Kennedy

Source: The Quotable Robert F. Kennedy

“People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.”

People Ifs Men Political Politics Calling Ruthless

Author:Robert Kennedy

“If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.”

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Book:Essays in persuasion

Source: Essays in persuasion

“If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.”

Ifs Political Politics Advice Bird Paradise Wet Hens

Author:Nikita Khrushchev

“If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents.”

Ifs Politics President Cost Like Me Cents Governors Bucks Don't Like Me Albany Picket Fences You Don't Like Me If You Don't Like Me

Author:Ed Koch

“If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.”

Ifs Wanted Funny Politics Given Politician Vote Candidates Voting Election Day Elections And Voting Political Wisdom Political Candidates

Author:Jay Leno

“If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.”

Ifs Should Politics Business Taxes Debt Spending Representation Taxation Income Tax Taxation Without Representation

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Motivational Political Politics Judging Planning Stubborn Future Plans Future Planning House Divided

Book:The Lincoln-Douglas Debates

Source: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates

“At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”

Ifs Dies Politics Nations Answers Danger Approach Spring Destruction Suicide Expected All Time Civil War Discernment Freeman Finishers

Book:The Portable Abraham Lincoln

Source: The Portable Abraham Lincoln

“They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.”

Ifs Knows Men Politics Women Too Much Congress Memorable Filibuster

Author:Clare Boothe Luce

“Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.”

Ifs Men War Done Political Politics Ought Destroyed Injury Vengeance

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.”

Ifs Want States America Political Asks Politics United United States Election Britain United States Of America Asia Observers Free Elections

Author:Nelson Mandela

“If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.”

“In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.”

Ifs Reason Seems Politics Military Politician Consideration Ethical Honorable Retreat Shameful

Author:Mary McCarthy

“If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.”

Ifs Political Found Politics Politician Promise Taxes Dinner Debt Spending Missionary Constituents Cannibal

Author:H. L. Mencken

“If Clinton had only attacked terrorism as much as he attacks George Bush we wouldn't be in this problem.”

Ifs Problem Politics Clinton Terrorism

Author:Dennis Miller

“If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.”

Ifs Political Politics Confused Hopeless I Am Confused

Author:Walter F. Mondale

“So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.”

Ifs Mean Long Art Lasts Political Dies Politics Goes On Civilization Art Is Competition Productions Doomed Degradation Aggravation Life Goes On

Book:The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris

Source: The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris

“The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it.”

People Ifs Ideas Enough Whole Government Together Politics Pay Concerts Get Together

Book:Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government

Source: Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government

“It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.”

Ifs Kind Country Might Political Politics Felt Democracy Claims Praise Democratic Thrive Regimes Tied Defenders

Book:The collected essays, journalism, and letters of George Orwell

Source: The collected essays, journalism, and letters of George Orwell

“He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.”

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Book:THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…

Source: THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…

“If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.”

Ifs Littles Country Politics Water Sacrifice Journey Politician Desert

Author:Ross Perot

“The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly embarrasses the operations of the Government. They create offices by their own votes and then seek to fill them themselves.”

Ifs Government Political Passion Politics Members Office Vote Congress Operations Patriotic

Book:The Diary of James K. Polk During His Presidency

Source: The Diary of James K. Polk During His Presidency