Great Political Quotes From Around the World

[KillerMuffin]

"We Americans live in a free world, a world where we can stand as individuals, where we can go to the church of our own choice and worship God as we please, each in his own fashion, where we can freely speak our opinions on any subject or on any man. "

Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, April 6, 1954

 

[TN_Vixen]

Now post a not-so-American quote from McCarthy

 

[KinkyKat]

"Never, never, never give up!!" - Winston Churchill

 

[KillerMuffin]

From the BBC:

"[South African President] Mbeki is one of Africa's great AIDS deniers. At a closed session of his party lastyear, he blamed the AIDS problem on a CIA conspiracy."

 

[KinkyKat]

"The buck stops here" - Harry Truman

 

[KinkyKat]

"The buck stops here" - NBC reporter from the White House lawn concerning the Clintons selling nights in the Lincoln Bedroom for political contributions.

 

[KinkyKat]

"...since men landed on Mars" - Shiela Jackson Lee, floor of Congress during Clinton impeachment debate

 

[KinkyKat]

"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom: it is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves." William Pitt, "The Younger”, British Prime Minister

"We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate." Thomas Jefferson

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin

"A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election." Bill Vaughan