Political Quotes

Ann and I will carry out this equivocal message to the world: Markets must be open.

If he's - the inference is that somehow he thinks slavery is a - is a noble institution I would - I would strongly reject that assumption - that John Ashcroft is a openminded, inclusive person.

She's just trying to make sure Anthony gets a good meal - Antonio.

I also have picked a secretary for Housing and Human Development. Mel Martinez from the state of Florida.

I knew it might put him in an awkward position that we had a discussion before finality has finally happened in this presidential race.

If I'm the president, we're going to have emergency-room care, we're going to have gag orders.

It's one thing about insurance, that's a Washington term.

It's going to require numerous IRA agents.

I would have my secretary of treasury be in touch with the financial centers, not only here but at home.

They have miscalculated me as a leader.

This is what I'm good at. I like meeting people, my fellow citizens, I like interfacing with them.

That's Washington. That's the place where you find people getting ready to jump out of the foxholes before the first shot is fired.

The point is, this is a way to help inoculate me about what has come and is coming.

I want you to know that farmers are not going to be secondary thoughts to a Bush administration. They will be in the forethought of our thinking.

You might want to comment on that, Honorable.

There's not going to be enough people in the system to take advantage of people like me.

I hope we get to the bottom of the answer. It's what I'm interested to know.

I've got a great sense of where I want to lead and I'm comfortable with why I'm running. And, you know, the call on that speech was, beware. This is going to be a tough campaign.

The fact that he relies on facts - says things that are not factual - are going to undermine his campaign.

I don't have to accept their tenants. I was trying to convince those college students to accept my tenants. And I reject any labeling me because I happened to go to the university.

Really proud of it. A great campaign. And I'm really pleased with the organization and the thousands of South Carolinians that worked on my behalf. And I'm very gracious and humbled.

How do you know if you don't measure if you have a system that simply suckles kids through?

I've changed my style somewhat, as you know. I'm less - I pontificate less, although it may be hard to tell it from this show. And I'm more interacting with people.

I don't remember debates. I don't think we spent a lot of time debating it. Maybe we did, but I don't remember.

It's my first trip as president of the United States.

Kosovians can move back in.

We say to seniors, we understand how important prescription drug coverage, so prescription drugs will be an ingrinable part of the Medicare plan.

After all, religion has been around a lot longer than Darwinism.

There needs to be debates, like we're going through. There needs to be townhall meetings. There needs to be travel. This is a huge country.

Mr. Vice President, in all due respect, it is-I'm not sure 80 percent of the people get the death tax. I know this: 100 percent will get it if I'm the president.

Quotas are bad for America. It's not the way America is all about.

First, we would not accept a treaty that would not have been ratified, nor a treaty that I thought made sense for the country.

But I also made it clear to him [Vladimir Putin] that it's important to think beyond the old days of when we had the concept that if we blew each other up, the world would be safe.

I don't bring God into my life to - to, you know, kind of be a political person.

It is incredibly presumptive for somebody who has not yet earned his party's nomination to start speculating about vice presidents.

I regret that we weren't able to reform Social Security. The fact that we weren't able to when we had majorities in the House and the Senate I think reflected poorly on our political party.

The question is: How do we succeed in Iraq? And you don't succeed by leaving before the mission is complete, like some in this political process are suggesting.

I think by not participating in the current political debate, hopefully I'm sending a signal that will help set a tone.

Hezbollah is not a state. They're a, you know, supposed political party that happens to be armed.

The liberality of sentiment toward each other, which marks every political and religious denomination of men in this country, stands unparalleled in the history of nations.

The euro currency both presupposes and promotes a fiction - that 'Europe' has somehow become, against the wishes of most Europeans, a political rather than a merely geographic expression.

Political nature abhors a vacuum, which is what often exists for a year or two in a party after it loses a presidential election.

Term limits would make Congress bolder, more independent, and less risk-averse.

I will be a president of all Bulgarians, irrespective of their ethnicity, religion or political affiliations.

There are hundreds of prisons - sexual, political, cultural. But being a prisoner also gives you impetus.

Political means so many things. We are political willy-nilly. Political poetry is an easy invitation to disaster. But then so is love poetry. But we are a little more patient with bad love poetry.

Oppressed persons, oppressed cultures, tend to be more political, obviously, as are those with a rage for justice, or the crazy messianic desire.

I should have had a circuitous answer; that was a non-answer.

Indeed, the creators of the euro envisioned it as an instrument to promote political union.

Mussolini was the greatest political leader of the century.