“He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.”
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“The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.”
“So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.”
“Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.”
“They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.”
“When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.”
“Voting is a civic sacrament.”
“I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.”
“Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.”
“When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.”
“Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.”
“It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.”
“And after I make a lot of money, I'll be able to afford running for office.”
“I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.”
“I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.”
“We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.”
“Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.”
“I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.”
“If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.”
“We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.”
“You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job.”
“After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.”
“Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois.”
“You know they say the most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip.”