I need some help. Hubby is writing an endorsement questionaire and

[saracat]

he needs a quote of the best political advice ever. Anyone got a quote?

[valerief]

1. Here's a list.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Politics

I don't think there is a best of anything when it comes to politics.

[dorktv]

2. hmmmm...

Something by Paul Wellstone

[dorktv]

4. Althought I forget which Florida politician said this: I do not need to

be re-elected, but I do have to live with myself.

Every politician needs to remember those words: if you can remember that life goes on after not winning an election, remember as well that your votes do have an impact on people's lives.

[longship]

3. FDR's Four Freedom's

That's the best I know. There's never been a better framing of issues.

In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.

The first is freedom of speech and expression -- everywhere in the world.

The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way -- everywhere in the world.

The third is freedom from want -- which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants -- everywhere in the world.

The fourth is freedom from fear -- which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor-- anywhere in the world.

That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation. That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so-called new order of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb.

To that new order we oppose the greater conception -- the moral order. A good society is able to face schemes of world domination and foreign revolutions alike without fear.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, January 6, 1941

[madrchsod]

5. google-- political quotations

just looked and there are some really good sites---remember everything is on google

[valerief]

6. In politics an absurdity is not a handicap. -- Napoleon Bonaparte

Neocons surely took that seriously.

[MADem]

7. Tip O'Neill--All politics is local.

He was right about that, too.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1558504702/103-8083376-9173432?v=glance&n=283155

[Reckon]

8. Thomas Jefferson

"In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own. -Thomas Jefferson, letter to Horatio G. Spafford, March 17, 1814"

[wellstone dem]

9. Here's a few from Hubert Humphrey and Paul Wellstone

This site has a number of amazing quotations from Humbert Humphrey.

This first seems to be appropriate for a question seeking quotes.



"It is all too easy for a society to measure itself against some abstract philosophical principle or political slogan. But in the end, there must remain the question: What kind of life is one society providing to the people that live in it?"


A few others

"When we say, 'One nation under God, with liberty and justice for all', we are talking about all people. We either ought to believe it or quit saying it ."

"I believe that each of us can make a difference. That what is wrong can be made right. That people possess the basic wisdom and goodness to govern themselves without conflict."

"There is no such thing as an acceptable level of unemployment, because hunger is not acceptable, poverty is not acceptable, poor health is not acceptable, and a ruined life is not acceptable."

"Peace is not passive, it is active. Peace is not appeasement, it is strength. Peace does happen. It requires work."

And my personal favorite:

"The moral test of a government is how it treats those who are at the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the aged; and those who are in the shadow of life, the sick, the needy, and the handicapped."


And for Paul wellstone

http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/paul_wellstone/

or

http://www.wellstone.org/archive/article_detail.aspx?itemID=5415&catID=3605


“Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives”

“Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.”

“We need a new kind of citizenship, so that we can see citizens as themselves earning the rank of patriot because of their involvement in their community affairs….We as a society need to be encouraging people to focus not just on individual wants but on serving the larger community.”

"The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.”

[saracat]

10. Thank you all! These are great. Democrats sure can speak!