Dan Quayle

"If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide."

Meg Greenfield

"If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking 'Do you want fries with that?'"

John Cleese

"If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve."

William T. Sherman

"If the United Nations is a country unto itself, then the commodity it exports most is words."

Esther B. Fein

"If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers."

Nelson Mandela

"If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal."

Emma Goldman

"If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable."

Louis D. Brandeis

"If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't."

Hyman Rickover

"If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the Governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me, 90 cents."

Edward Koch

"If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law."

Winston Churchill

"If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail."

Edward Koch

"Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it."

Dan Quayle

"In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith."

James William Fulbright

"In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get - The Future!"

Dan Quayle

"In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport."

Dick Gregory

"In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant."

Charles de Gaulle

"In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate."

Charles de Gaulle

"In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman."

Margaret Thatcher

"In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican."

H. L. Mencken

"Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man."

Ronald Reagan

"Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks."

Doug Larson

"It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms."

Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

"It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself."

Sandra Day O'Connor

"It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence."

Mohandas Gandhi