Political Meeting Quotes

#1. Never miss a political meeting if you think there's the slightest chance you'll wish you'd been there.

Morton Blackwell

#2. As for Hitler, his professed religion unhesitatingly juxtaposed the God-Providence and Valhalla. Actually his god was an argument at a political meeting and a manner of reaching an impressive climax at the end of speeches.

Albert Camus

#3. A greater Quantity of some things may be eaten than of others, some being of lighter Digestion than others.

Benjamin Franklin

#4. This is what I'm good at. I like meeting people, my fellow citizens, I like interfacing with them.

George W. Bush

#5. I know I'm gonna die so my revenge is living well.

Robbie Williams

#6. I think everybody reacts to entertainment with a different kind of visceral way, probably mostly based on their own personal experiences. I think everybody reacts to entertainment with a different kind of visceral way, probably mostly based on their own personal experiences.

Kevin Bacon

#7. Whenever I have to do an emotional scene, I just take my contacts out and it means I can't see anything.

Laurie Holden

#8. Really, running an underdog, insurgent political campaign against an opponent many folks think can't be beat, and going out and meeting folks and talking about your ideas for America and Washington, is a lot of fun and a real privilege.

Michael Baumgartner

#9. They did it quite a lot after that first encounter" ... when Jill remembers first meeting the dashing Baron.

Lisa McKnight

#10. Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#11. Victory did not come to the one who played by the rules; it came to the one who made the rules and imposed them on his enemy.

Jack Weatherford

#12. Second Timothy is clear that we have a distinct, demanding body of doctrine that needs to be taught, a message that requires reiteration every Sunday if we, as the Church, are to be who we are called to be.

Richard J. Foster

#13. Some brainless comedy where actors with perfect white teeth spoke their lines then froze in place to let the laugh track unwind.

James Sallis

#14. It's weird to think I have fans now, so I appreciate all of the people that follow and support me - and I love them to death. But yeah, when I start looking on Twitter, and I see, 'I want to name my kid after you,' I'm like, 'Whoa!' I'm a little surprised.

Ryan Guzman

#15. If power lies more and more in the hands of corporations rather than governments, the most effective way to be political is not to cast one's vote at the ballot box, but to do so at the supermarket or at a shareholders' meeting. When provoked, corporations respond.

Noreena Hertz

#16. They used to ask: "How will this decision that we make today affect our people in the future?" Now we make decisions based on: "How does it affect me, now? How does it affect the next shareholders meeting, three months ahead? How does it affect my next political campaign?"

Jane Goodall

#17. Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if the future holds no hope.

John F. Kennedy

#18. The electronic media introduced this idea to the larger audience very, very quickly. We spent years and years and years meeting with activists all over Europe to lay the groundwork for a political response, as we did here.

Jeremy Rifkin

#19. A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind.

Richard Hofstadter

#20. Why! Why! Why is the middle-class so stodgy - so utterly without a sense of humor?

Katherine Mansfield

#21. My favorite Congressional incongruity: ... Red State legislators galumphing from meeting to meeting in full pancake makeup. Estee Lauder may well make more money on Capitol Hill than in Beverly Hills.

Frank Bruni

#22. Dark, cool, musty, smoky, where light fell funny and everyone looked like someone you knew or wanted to know. Or, more likely, wanted to forget.

David Baldacci