Favorite political quote (Democrats only)

Here's some also-rans:
A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular. - Adlai Stevenson. Adlai was a quote machine; more here: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/adlai_e_stevenson.html

Poor Darrell Hammond. What's he going to do when I leave office? - Bill Clinton

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business. - LBJ

asking His help and His blessing, but knowing that here on earth, God's work must truly be our own."

J. F. Kennedy, January 20, 1961

"Mr. Eeeban...Y'know ah was just sittin' here scratching mah balls and thinkin' about Israel..."

Lloyd Bentsen, said to Dan Quayle, VP debate, 1988

Imagine that sentiment coming out of the current administration...

Impossible.

until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest" --Denis Diderot

We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.

He was addressing them via closed circuit tv from Hawaii. Coleman was great for the profane quotes.

A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.

I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.

I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

This the first time I ever heard it said that the crime is not the burglary, but the discovery of the burglar.

We mean by "politics" the people's business - the most important business there is.

You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.

- Adlai E. Stevenson

Thanks for the reminder. :)

Supporter: "Adlai, every thinking man is behind you!"
Stevenson: "That's not enough, madam, we need a majority!"

"Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be."

"After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquillity of a political convention."

"In America any boy may become President, and I suppose that's just one of the risks he takes."

"That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another."

"All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions."

"There ain't nothin' in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos." :)

I'm also fond of "George Bush was born on third and thinks he hit a triple", but I don't remember who said it.

I'm surprised a Texan doesn't know that. Ann Richards is the one who came up with the famous, "George H.W. Bush was born with a silver foot in his mouth." Unlike his petulant son, the old man at least has a sense of humor - he gave Ann Richards a silver pin of a foot which she often wears.

I knew John Kennedy, John Kennedy was a friend of mine, and you, senator, are no John Kennedy."

so we can claim him.

I've been a fan of Franklin's since elementary school.

"To those who say, my friends, to those who say, that we are rushing this issue of civil rights, I say to them we are 172 years late! To those who say, to those who say this civil-rights program is an infringement on states’ rights, I say this: the time has arrived in America for the Democratic party to get out of the shadow of states' rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights!" - 1948 Democratic Convention

Drove Strom Thurmond out of the party...Thank God!!!

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

John F. Kennedy

The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

We must adjust to change and still hold to unchanging principles.

I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.