The best Quotes by Adlai Ewing Stevenson Senior

I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.

Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.

War is young men dying and old men talking. You know this. Ignore the politics.

Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.

Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

An honest man in politics shines more there than he would elsewhere.

You're in politics. You know that no one can claw their way to the top without getting a little dirt under their fingernails.

They say politics is a contact sport, and I have to agree with that.

Statecraft is the art of attending to small matters as diligently as grand ones.

Someone once said that politics is little more than the systematic organization of hostilities.

Politics is a game and a profession. It doesn't really serve the people the politicians are supposed to serve.

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.

At the heart of all problems lies the politics of the country.

I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up.

What is right and what is practicable are two different things.

In politics, you need a feeling for what's possible and what's reasonable.

Does politics have to be injected into everything?

If there's not enough coffee for everyone, there's coffee for no one.

Freddie Thorne: "What kind of a list would have the name of a communist and the name of a bookmaker side by side?"
Thomas Shelby: "Perhaps it's a list of men who give false hope to the poor."

Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.

Death is a preferable alternative to communism.

Communism is like an autoimmune disorder; it doesn't do the killing itself, but it weakens the system so much that the victim is left helpless and unable to fight off anything else.

I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism.

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.

I don't really view communism as a bad thing.

For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.

The goal of socialism is communism.

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property!

Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky.

Communist until you get rich
Feminist until you get married
Atheist until the airplane starts falling

One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president. The other one is me.

What do you call an Asian Dwayne Johnson?
The Wok.

I'm paranoid. On my stationary bike, I have a rear view mirror.

When you're in love it's the most glorious two and a half days of your life.

I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.

I tried phone sex - it gave me an ear infection.

During sex I fantasize that I'm someone else.

I like to read biographies of authors that I love, like Richard Yates. I also like to see what non-fiction authors are out there. My bible is Something Happened. It's one of the greatest books I've ever read. But if I don't read a Dostoevsky soon I'm going to kill myself.

For 45 years I've worked without an audience.