"In California they don't throw their garbage away -they make it into television shows."
"Annie Hall'
"I don't make jokes - I just watch the government and report the facts."
US actor and humorist
"The only way I can lose this election is if I'm caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy."
Governor of Louisiana
"Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people."
"In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office."
"Policemen are numbered in case they get lost."
British comic actor and author
"How can you govern a nation which has 246 kinds of cheese?"
"Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship."
"Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority!"
US President - referring to his defeat in the 1912 presidential election.
"I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it."
Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989
"Accidentally."
A reply during the reign of Louis Philippe to the question "How do you think this government will end?"
Quotedb: The Quotations Database
