Political Quotes.

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

"In a recent fire Bob Dole's library burned down. Both books were lost. And he hadn't even finished colouring one of them."

‘Poor Neville Chamberlain believed he could trust Hitler. He was wrong. But I don’t think I’m wrong to trust Stalin.’

Winston Churchill

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

Any government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always rely upon the support of Paul.

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."

Winston Churchill

"An empty taxi pulled up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Atlee climbed out of it. " Sir Winston Curchill.

Denis Healey said that being attacked by Howe(?) was like "being savaged by a dead sheep".

''They misunderestimated me.''

—President George W. Bush, Nov. 6, 2000

''We do know of certain knowledge that he [Osama Bin Laden] is either in Afghanistan, or in some other country, or dead.''

—former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, 2003

''Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.''

—Marion Barry, former mayor of Washington, D.C.

“Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian”

Robert Orben

“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies”

Groucho Marx

''My fellow Americans. I'm pleased to announce that I've signed legislation outlawing the Soviet Union. We begin bombing in five minutes.''

—Ronald Reagan, joking during a mike check before his Saturday radio broadcast

'It was absolutely involuntary. They sank my boat.''

—President John Kennedy, answering a little boy on how he became a war hero

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."

"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"

"Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves."

"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues."

"Avoid popularity if you would have peace."

“If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will."

“In politics, stupidity is not a handicap”

Napoléon Bonaparte

"I have never voted in my life...I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so its certain they will win."

- Louis-Ferdinand Celine.

I don't remember the exact quote from Reagan but it was something like:

The most terrifying words in the English language are I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

Here's a quote that should send a chill down the spine of anyone foolish enough to contemplate voting Labour in the General Election.

"I'm afraid to tell you there's no money left".  (Liam Byrne 2010, as Labour depart office)

This is a famous quote that could apply today to the SNP leadership.

‘Power without responsibility – the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.’

It was made famous by Baldwin though it was coined by Kipling.