Frases célebres en inglés Politica y politicos

“Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren’t for the goddamned people.”
Richard M. Nixon

“That government is best which governs least.”
Henry David Thoreau

“Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.”
Cicero

“The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them which we are missing.”
Gamel Nassar

“Nobody believes an official spokesman… but everybody trusts an unidentified source.”
Ron Nesen

“Governments view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: if it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.”
Ronald Reagan

“The president has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.”
George Stephanopolous (Clinton aide)

“In America, anybody can be president. That’s one of the risks you take.”
Adlai Stevenson

“Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by traffic from both sides.”
Margaret Thatcher

“Being in power is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.”
Margaret Thatcher

“Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.”
Harry S. Truman

“If you can’t convince them, confuse them.”
Harry S. Truman

“Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.”
Sir Winston Churchill

“If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?”
Abraham Lincoln

“Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.”
Abba Eban

“Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions – it only guarantees equality of opportunity.”
Irving Kristol

“Leaders who win the respect of others are the ones who deliver more than they promise, not the ones who promise more than they deliver.”
Mark A. Clement

“I’m responsible only to God and history.”

Francisco Franco

“Good leaders must first become good servants.”
Robert Greenleaf

“The great masses of the people… will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.”
Adolf Hitler

“In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.”
Norman Cousins

“The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference and under nourishment.”
Robert Hutchins

“The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.”
Cicero

“I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.”
George Burns

“In politics stupidity is not a handicap.”
Napoleon Bonaparte

“A leader is a dealer in hope.”
Napoleon Bonaparte

“No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.”
Andrew Carnegie

“A little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.”
Thomas Jefferson

“That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.”
Thomas Jefferson

“The ‘C’ students run the world.”
Harry S. Truman

"When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world and you knew exactly who they were. It was us versus them and it was clear who them was. Today we are not so sure who the they are, but we know they're there."
George W. Bush