A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
Woodrow Wilson
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they’re dead.
Leo Rosten
A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
Caskie Stinnett
A fool and his money are soon elected.
Will Rogers
A free America… means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
Frank Lloyd Wright
A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.
Charles W. Pickering
A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman
A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
Leonard Bernstein
A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else’s money.
Carter Glass
A politician will do anything to keep his job – even become a patriot.
정치인이란 자신의 자리를 지키기 위해 뭐든지 하는(do anything to keep his job) 사람들이다. 심지어 애국자가 되는 것도 한다(even become a patriot).
A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.
Albert Pike
After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.
George C. Wallace
All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
Harry S. Truman
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
John Quincy Adams
America’s present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.
Warren G. Harding
An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
행동을 수반하지 않는 생각(an idea not coupled with action)은 뇌세포 크기보다 결코 더 커질 수 없다(never get any bigger than the brain cell).
And after I make a lot of money, I’ll be able to afford running for office.
Christy Romano
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
Gore Vidal
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
민주주의란 아무런 이슈 없이 서로 맞바꿔도 그만인 후보자들을 두고 엄청난 비용을 들여(at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates) 수많은 선거가 치러지는(numerous elections are held) 장소다.
As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
Daniel J. Boorstin
Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don’t vote.
나쁜 국회의원들(bad members of the National Assembly)은 투표를 하지 않는 좋은 사람들에 의해(by good people who don’t vote) 국회에 보내진다(be sent to the National Assembly).
Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman’s truncheon over the anarchist’s bomb.
Spiro T. Agnew
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
Ambrose Bierce
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
John Stuart Mill
Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.
George Will
Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
민주주의는 당신이 가장 덜 싫어하는 후보자에게 투표(vote for the candidate you dislike least)함으로써 굴러간다.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
E. B. White
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Aristotle
Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?
Robert Orben
Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.
B. R. Ambedkar
Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.
모든 정치인은 고아로 태어났어야(should have been born an orphan) 하고미혼남으로 남았어야(should haveremained a bachelor)한다.
For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
John W. Gardner
Frankly, I don’t mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.
Edward Kennedy
Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.
William O. Douglas
Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.
Daniel J. Boorstin
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
A. J. Liebling
Give me control of a nation’s money and I care not who makes her laws.
Mayer Amschel Rothschild
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
Gore Vidal
He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
Henry B. Adams
He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
아첨하는 방법을 아는(know how to flatter) 사람이 중상모략 하는 방법도 안다(also know how to slander).
Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
Winston Churchill
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
Milton Friedman
Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.
W. C. Fields
I always voted at my party’s call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
William Gilbert
I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
Margaret Thatcher
I can’t let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.
Gerhard Schroeder
I do have a political agenda. It’s to have as few regulations as possible.
Dan Quayle
I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
Will Rogers
I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn’t want to give up power.
Arthur C. Clarke
I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
Thomas Jefferson
I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish – occasionally I do windows.
Edward Koch
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
Napoleon Bonaparte
I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.
A. N. Wilson
I think it’s a terrible shame that politics has become show business.
Sydney Pollack
I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
대통령보다 더 높은 한 자리(one higher office than president)가 있다. 나는 그 것을 애국자라고 부른다(call it patriot).
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.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Barry Goldwater
I’ve been to war, and it’s not easy to kill. It’s bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.
Oliver Stone
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.
Meg Greenfield
If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
William Tecumseh Sherman
If the United Nations is a country unto itself, then the commodity it exports most is words.
Esther B. Fein
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.
미국이나 영국에 선거가 있을 때 아프리카나 아시아 출신의 옵저버를 요청하지 않는다(do not ask for observers from Africa or from Asia). 그런데 우리가 선거를 치르려고 하면 옵저버를 요구하고 나선다.
If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.
투표가 뭔가를 바꿀 수 있다면(If voting could change anything) 정치인들은 그 것을 불법화할(would make it illegal)것이다.
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
Louis D. Brandeis
If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
Noam Chomsky
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won’t.
관료주의가 아니라 신에게 죄를지었다면 신은 용서해줄(will forgive you) 것이다. 그러나 관료주의는 용서하지 않을(but the bureaucracy won’t) 것이다.
Hyman Rickover
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.
Edward Koch
If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.
Thomas Sowell
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
Winston Churchill
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand.
Milton Friedman
In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
민주주의에선 반대(dissent)도 신념의 행동(an act of faith)이다.
J. William Fulbright
In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it’s a sport.
Dick Gregory
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
정치인들은 주인이 되기 위해(in order to become the master) 하인 시늉을 한다(pose as the servant).
In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
Charles de Gaulle
In politics nothing is contemptible.
Benjamin Disraeli
In politics the middle way is none at all.
John Adams
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
H. L. Mencken
Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.
Ronald Reagan
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
정치인에게 나라의 열쇠를 주는 대신(instead of giving a politician the keys to the country) 자물쇠를 바꿔버리는 것이나을(be better to change the locks)것이다.
It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
It is a measure of the framers’ fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.
Sandra Day O’Connor
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
Mohandas Gandhi
It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.
Sandra Day O’Connor
It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
Joseph Stalin
It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.
George MacDonald
It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
Abba Eban
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
Daniel Webster
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
John F. Kennedy
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
William E. Gladstone
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
Khalil Gibran
Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
Thomas B. Macaulay
My brother Bob doesn’t want to be in government – he promised Dad he’d go straight.
John F. Kennedy
My hope is that 10 years from now, after I’ve been across the street at work for a while, they’ll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote.
Sandra Day O’Connor
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
Henry A. Kissinger
No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution… revolution is but thought carried into action.
Emma Goldman
Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
투표 참여 거부의 벌책 중 하나(one of the penalties for refusing to participate invoting)는 결국 당신보다 못한 사람들의 지배를 받게 된다는(end up being governed by your inferiors) 것이다.
Plato
One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician’s objective. Election and power are.
사람들이 정치를 증오하는 이유 중 하나(one of the reasons people hate politics)는 진실이 정치인의 목표인 경우가 거의 없기(be rarely a politician’s objective) 때문이다. 그들의 목표는 당선과 권력이다.
Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.
Milton Friedman
Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois.
Dick Durbin
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men’s minds.
Thurgood Marshall
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
Newt Gingrich
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
Aristotle
Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
Will Rogers
Politics have no relation to morals.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
Winston Churchill
Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Charles de Gaulle
Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.
정치는 유혈사태 없는 전쟁(war without bloodshed)이고, 전쟁은 유혈사태가 있는 정치(politics with bloodshed)이다.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
정치는 옳으냐 그르냐 대신에(instead of right or wrong) 오른쪽이냐 왼쪽이냐에만 신경을 쓰는(be only concerned with right or left) 것 같다.
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
Ambrose Bierce
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
권력은 부패하기 쉽다(tend to corrupt). 절대권력(absolute power)은 절대적으로 부패한다(corrupt absolutely).
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
Mark Twain
Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.
Pope John Paul II
Reporters thrive on the world’s misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
Russell Baker
Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.
Jimmy Carter
Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas.
Lewis Black
Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.
Grover Cleveland
So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we’ll be called a democracy.
자신의 권리를 위해 투쟁하고자 하는(be willing to fight for their rights)사람들이 이 나라에많이 있기에민주주의라고 불릴 수 있는 것이다.
Roger Nash Baldwin
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.
Mark Twain
Television is democracy at its ugliest.
Paddy Chayefsky
The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.
Ross Perot
The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.
Neal Barnard
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
지독의 가장 어두운 곳(the darkest places in hell)은 도덕적 위기 시기에도 중립성을 고수하는(maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis) 이들을 위해 예약돼 있다(be reserved for them).
The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work and then they get elected and prove it.
P. J. O’Rourke
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
R. Buckminster Fuller
The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.
정치에 쏟아져 들어오는 돈의 범람(the flood of money that gushes into politics)은 민주주의의 오염 공해(a pollution of democracy)다.
The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you’re rich.
P. J. O’Rourke
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal – that you can gather votes like box tops – is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
Adlai E. Stevenson
The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It’s the party of non-voters.
Robert Reich
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
John Kenneth Galbraith
The most important political office is that of the private citizen.
Louis D. Brandeis
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
Oscar Levant
The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
John Stuart Mill
The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.
Clare Boothe Luce
The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.
Fidel Castro
The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
Fidel Castro
The secret of getting things done is to act!
Dante Alighieri
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
Erich Fromm
The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.
Herbert Hoover
The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.
Deng Xiaoping
The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won’t take it, but somebody always does.
Bill Vaughan
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken
The world is governed by opinion.
William Ellery Channing
The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.
John Foster Dulles
Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don’t know what they are conserving.
Robertson Davies
There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
Gertrude Stein
There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
Alexis de Tocqueville
They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
Clare Boothe Luce
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
Alexander Hamilton
‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Thomas Paine
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.
Ralph Nader
Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.
가장 적게 공약하는 사람에게 투표하라(Vote for the man who promises least). 그러면 그는 가장 적게 실망시키는 사람이 될(willbe the least disappointing)것이다.
Voters don’t decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.
George Will
Voting is a civic sacrament.
Theodore Hesburgh
We didn’t actually overspend our budget. The health Commission allocation simply fell short of our expenditure.
Frank Howard Clark
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
Stewart Udall
We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.
Martin L. Gross
We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.
Kin Hubbard
What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again.
Estelle Morris
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Edmund Burke
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
P. J. O’Rourke
When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.
Maggie Gallagher
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I’m beginning to believe it.
어렸을 때 아무나 대통령이될 수 있다는 이야기를 듣고(be told that anybody could become President) 자랐다. 그걸 이제 믿기 시작했다.
When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.
John W. Gardner
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
Charles de Secondat
When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.
Imelda Marcos
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
Thomas Jefferson
Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
Robert Kennedy
You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don’t get much else in that job.
Thomas P. O’Neill
You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.
Daniel Hannan
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
John Morley
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.
가장 위험한 사람(the most dangerous person)은 3일간 사실확인여행을 하고 막 돌아온 국회의원(a member of the National Assembly just home from a three-day fact-finding trip)이다.
You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.
Barbara Bush
You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.
Harry S. Truman
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
Grover Cleveland
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