William Howard Taft on Politics

"We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement."

-- William Howard Taft, President of the United States.
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Lewis H. Lapham on Politics

"Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?"

-- Lewis H. Lapham, American author.
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Henry Fountain Ashurst on Politics

"When I have to choose between voting for the people or the special interests, I always stick with the special interests. They remember. The people forget."

-- Henry Fountain Ashurst, United States senator.
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Plato on Politics

"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."

-- Plato, philosopher.
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David Broder on Politics

"Anybody who 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, American journalist.
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Molly Ivins on Politics

"The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion."

-- Molly Ivins, American author.
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American Reform Party

"If we are ever successful in this effort, our philosophy will then be "populist" thereby, and more representative of the Democratic Republic we profess ourselves to be a government, "of the people, by the people, and for the people."

-- American Reform Party.
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