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Politics Quotes by John F. Kennedy
- Political action is the highest responsibility of a citizen.
- Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if the future holds…
- Just as I went into politics because Joe died, if anything happened to me tomorrow, my brother Bobby would run for my seat in the…
- In addition, the United States Delegation will suggest a series of steps to improve the United Nations machinery for the peaceful settlement of disputes... -…
- I do not belive that Washington should do for the people wha they can do for themselves through local and private effort.
- All of us in the Senate live in an iron lung-the iron lung of politics, and it is no easy task to emerge from that…
- Dont teach my boy poetry, an English mother recently wrote the Provost of Harrow. Dont teach my boy poetry; he is going to stand for…
- 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…
- My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
- A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of…
- The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
- If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
- Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
- We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
- Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.
- My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.
- Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.
- When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they…
- I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or…
- I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if…
- All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days . .…
- If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.
- I am the one person who can truthfully say, I got my job through the New York Times.
- Politics is a jungle-torn between doing the right thing and staying in office.
- I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute - where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he…
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- Under every stone lurks a politician. — Aristophanes
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle