Political quotes http://www.e4tips.com Political quotes from www.e4tips.com en-us "To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles." Anon. http:// Engineering Adventures Ltd 2007-03-25 "The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark." Jack Anderson http:// Engineering Adventures Ltd 2007-03-25 "The office of president is a bastardised thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit." Jimmy Breslin http:// Engineering Adventures Ltd 2007-03-25 "Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office." David Broder http:// Engineering Adventures Ltd 2007-03-25 "You really have to experience the feeling of being with the president in the oval office. ... It's a disease I came to call Ovalitis." John Dean http:// Engineering Adventures Ltd 2007-03-25 "Oh, that lovely title, ex-president." Dwight D Eisenhower http:// Engineering Adventures Ltd 2007-03-25 "Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it." Lyndon B. Johnson http:// Engineering Adventures Ltd 2007-03-25 "Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process." John Fitzgerald Kennedy http:// Engineering Adventures Ltd 2007-03-25 "All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway." Harry S Truman http:// Engineering Adventures Ltd 2007-03-25 "Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top." Timothy Leary http:// Engineering Adventures Ltd 2007-03-25 "From each, according to his ability; to each, according to his need." Karl Marx http:// Engineering Adventures Ltd 2007-03-25 "Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice." George Orwell, A Collection of Essays http:// Engineering Adventures Ltd 2007-03-25 "Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die." Salvador Dali http:// Engineering Adventures Ltd 2007-03-25 "Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being." Kahlil Gibran, "The Voice of the Poet" http:// Engineering Adventures Ltd 2007-03-25 "Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind." John Fitzgerald Kennedy http:// Engineering Adventures Ltd 2007-03-25 "I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in." George McGovern http:// Engineering Adventures Ltd 2007-03-25 "War does not determine who is right - only who is left." Bertrand Russell http:// Engineering Adventures Ltd 2007-03-25 "The revolution ... is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters." Fidel Castro http:// Engineering Adventures Ltd 2007-03-25 "The most heroic word in all languages is revolution." Eugene Debs http:// Engineering Adventures Ltd 2007-03-25 "To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power." Jane Fonda http:// Engineering Adventures Ltd 2007-03-25 "It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man." David Harris http:// Engineering Adventures Ltd 2007-03-25 "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." Abbie Hoffman http:// Engineering Adventures Ltd 2007-03-25 "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." John Fitzgerald Kennedy http:// Engineering Adventures Ltd 2007-03-25 "The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it." Mignon McLaughlin http:// Engineering Adventures Ltd 2007-03-25 "By the end, everybody had a label -- pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary ... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary." Jerry Rubin http:// Engineering Adventures Ltd 2007-03-25 "Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering." Tom Stoppard http:// Engineering Adventures Ltd 2007-03-25