“It is legal because I wish it.”
Louis XIV
“Speak softly and carry a big stick, and you will go far.”
Teddy Roosevelt
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies.”
Groucho Marx
“You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.”
Abraham Lincoln
“In inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this: the party organization substitutes itself for the party, the central committee substitutes itself for the organization, and, finally, a ''dictator'' substitutes himself for the central committee.”
Leon Trotsky
“To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities - that is not to be taken seriously in politics.”
Voltaire
“A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.”
David Lloyd George
