Your FAVORITE Political QUOTES....

[Moooooo]

What are your favorite political quotes divided into these categories.

1.)  Your favorite political quote of all time...

2.)  Your favorite political quote in recent time... (1990-2005)

3.)  Funniest political quote...

4.)  Dumbest political quote...

[Dr. Cynic]

1. Favorite--

"Behind Every Great Man Is A Proud Wife, And Stunned Mother-In-Law" -- Hubert Humphrey

2. Favorite Modern--

"Only Real Democrats Don't Tell Lies" -- Howard Dean

3. Funniest--

"I've Learned The Difference Between A Cactus And A Caucus... On a Cactus, The Pricks Are On The Outside." -- Morris Udall

4. Dumbest --

"My Opponents Have Misunderestimated Me." -- George W. Bush

[Moooooo]

1. Favorite--

"My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you: Ask what you can do for your country." - President John F. Kennedy 

2. Favorite Modern--

"You will determine whether rage or reason guides the United States in the struggle to come. You will choose whether we are known for revenge or compassion.  You will choose whether we, too, will kill in the name of God, or whether in His name, we can find a higher civilization and better means of settling our differences" - General Wesley K. Clark


3. Funniest--

"France is like an aging actress of the 1940's. She's still dining out on her looks, but doesn't have the face for it." - Sen. John McCain


4. Dumbest --

"Trees cause more pollution than automobiles do." -  President Ronald Reagan

[A18]

"If Lincoln were alive today, he would roll over in his grave." -- Jerry Ford

Hmm... what's it supposed to be?

[J-Mann]

"If Lincoln were alive today, he would roll over in his grave." -- Jerry Ford

Hmm... what's it supposed to be?

Something like "Lincoln must be rolling over in his grave."

[A18]

What was Jerry Ford talking about when he made the quote?

[J.G.H.]

1. Favorite-- "Read My Lips: No New Taxes!" -George H.W. Bush

2. Modern-- "I did not have sexual relations with that woman" --Bill Clinton

3. Funniest-- "This is the man who wants to be the commander in chief of our U.S. Armed Forces? U.S. forces armed with what? Spit balls?" --Zell Miller (This is probably my favorite actually, but I just had to file it under funniest.)

4. Dumbest-- "I actually did vote for the 87 billion--before I voted against it." --John Kerry

[CARLHAYDEN]

Welcome to the forum Zeus.

Good choices.

[J-Mann]

What was Jerry Ford talking about when he made the quote?

I don't know for sure....but "rolling over in his grave" is a common expression when signifying how much things have changed and how such changes would disappoint a respected elder who has passed on.  Like Ford sometimes did, it seems he goofed on this one.

[J.G.H.]

Welcome to the forum Zeus.

Good choices.

Thanks--  I've been here awhile, I've just always been more of a lurker than a poster

[J. J.]

Welcome to the forum Zeus.

Good choices.

Thanks--  I've been here awhile, I've just always been more of a lurker than a poster

It's still good to see you post.

[Keystone Phil]

1. Favorite-- "Read My Lips: No New Taxes!" -George H.W. Bush

It's unfortunate but I'd put that in the Dumbest category. Very, very bad move by H.W.

[Silent Hunter]

Most of these are British

1. A week is a long time in politics- Harold Wilson
2. Collective action is not an excuse for inaction- Jack Straw
3. That part of his speech was rather like being savaged by a dead sheep.- Dennis Healey on Geoffrey Howe
4. The Howard Dean 'I have a scream' speech

[CARLHAYDEN]

What was Jerry Ford talking about when he made the quote?

I don't know for sure....but "rolling over in his grave" is a common expression when signifying how much things have changed and how such changes would disappoint a respected elder who has passed on.  Like Ford sometimes did, it seems he goofed on this one.

Ford was notorious for his malapropisms.

I think that LBJ tagged him correctly in say something to the effect that 'he played too much football without a helmet.'

[Alcon]

Welcome to the forum, Zeus. Nice to see another South Dakotan, despite your being in the wrong party.

My favorite quote in general is probably "The people have spoken. The bastards." Although a lot Mo Udall has said is great.

[George W. Bush]

1.  We've done our part. And as I walk off into the city streets, a final word to the men and women of the Reagan revolution, the men and women across America who for 8 years did the work that brought America back. My friends: We did it. We weren't just marking time. We made a difference. We made the city stronger, we made the city freer, and we left her in good hands. All in all, not bad, not bad at all.

And so, goodbye, God bless you, and God bless the United States of America.
                                -Ronald Reagan's Farewell adress.
     (Im not sure what it is about that speach, but it gives me chills)


2. We know smoking tobacco is not good for kids, but a lot of other things aren't good. Drinking's not good. Some would say milk's not good.

3. "I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself." -- Ronald Reagan
AND
Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement. -Ronald Reagan

4. "Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country." —President George W. Bush

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"I was shooting Nazis when you damn hippies were still in diapers!" -Governor George Wallace

[The Duke]

Funniest- "If I could be the condom queen and get every young person who is engagin in sex to use a condom, I would wear a crown on my head with a condom on it."

-Joycelyn Elders

[dazzleman]

"Recession is when your neighbor is out of a job.
Depression is when you're out of a job.
Recovery is when Carter is out of a job." 

-Ronald Reagan, 1980

"Let us not be satisfied with a foreign policy that seems to have as its major objective obtaining the rights to sell Pepsi-Cola in the Soviet Union."

-Ronald Reagan, 1976 [attacking the "Kissinger-Ford" foreign policy]

"When I look at the world situation, I see what the rest of the world sees - the collapse of American will, and the retreat of American power."

-Ronald Reagan, 1976

[J. J.]

To of my favorites, though I don't agree with them:

1.  You see one slum, you've seen them all.

2.  "... the nattering nabobs of negativism..."

Spiro Agnew

[dazzleman]

To of my favorites, though I don't agree with them:

1.  You see one slum, you've seen them all.

2.  "... the nattering nabobs of negativism..."

Spiro Agnew

I have heard both of these quotes.  I have to say that there's truth to them, though like most things, not absolute truth.

[Joe Republic]

"I could think of no worse example for nations abroad, who for the first time are trying to put free electoral procedures into effect, than that of the United States wrangling over the results of our presidential election, and even suggesting that the presidency itself could be stolen by thievery at the ballot box."

- Richard Nixon, on his decision not to contest the results of the 1960 election against John F. Kennedy.  It was topical four years ago.  Now it's not.  Still, I like it.

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"I hear you hippies screaming four letter words at me! Well I have two four letter words for you! B-A-T-H and W-O-R-K!"

-George C Wallace

[JohnG]

1. Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom, and then lost it, have never known it again. - Ronald Reagan

2. You're either with us or against us in the fight against terror. – George W. Bush

3. Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."
- Ronald Reagan
And
“My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.”
- Ronald Reagan – ok this may not really fit here, but I love the quote.

4. If you think that rape should be legal, then don't vote. - Cameron Diaz

[M]

1. The only thing necessary for Evil to triumph is for Good men to stand by idly and do nothing.
-Edmund Burke

2. Freedom is not America's gift to the world. Freedom is G-d's gift to humanity.
-George W. Bush

3. Need some wood?
-George W. Bush.

4. http://real.usatoday-na-central.speedera.net/ramgen/real.usatoday-na-central/040122_dean_yeah.ra
-Howard Dean