“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
Plato
“If you can't convince them, confuse them.”
Harry S Truman
“There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.”
Margaret Thatcher
“I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.”
“The most terrifying words in the English langauge are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.”
Ronald Reagan
“Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in the courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.”
Abraham Lincoln
“The country needs change but we also have to have the courage to acknowledge what is good," he said, insisting this was part of the mentality change the party had to undergo. "It is easy to say no; more difficult to say yes. But change is our lifeblood,"”
Joseph Muscat