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"Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a world-wide depression all by myself."
Herbert Clark Hoover
"It is a curious fact that when we get sick we want an uncommon doctor... When we get into a war, we dreadfully want an uncommon admiral and an uncommon general. Only when we get into politics are we content with the common man."
Herbert Clark Hoover
"The hardest job for a politician today is to have the courage to be a moderate. It's easy to take an extreme position."
Hubert H. Humphrey
"All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake."
Indira Gandhi
"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist."
Indira Gandhi
"All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake."
Indira Nehru Gandhi
"Anything that keeps a politician humble is healthy for democracy."
Irish Blessing
"In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination."
Irving Layton
"Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon."
Irving Layton
"Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments."
Isaac Asimov
"A politician is a person who can make waves and then make you think he's the only one who can save the ship."
Ivern Ball
"No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power."
Jacob Bronowski
"You can't divorce religious belief and public service ... I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other."
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.
"One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat."
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.
"The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom."
Jean Bodin
"I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me-toasted and buttered on both sides."
Jesse Jackson
"If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart."
Jesse Jackson
"The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt."
Jesse Jackson
"We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up."
Jesse Jackson
"A politician is a person who thinks twice before he says nothing."
Joe Moore
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