| "In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war, we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint." »Lyndon B. Johnson |
| "A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing." »Alexander Hamilton |
| "Stan Well you can take the girl outta the trailer park but you can't take the trailer park outta the girl." »Swordfish |
| "All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl." »Charlie Chaplin |
| "I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place." »Steven Wright |
| "There's something intrinsically therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide, open park- like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand." »Charles Rosin |
| "If there's ever an amusement park called Bag World, I bet it would really start to annoy you after a while how they really sort of stretch the definition of 'bag.'" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "What is it about a beautiful sunny afternoon, with the birds singing and the wind rustling through the leaves, that makes you want to get drunk And after you're real drunk, maybe go down to the public park and stagger around and ask people for money, and then lie down and go to sleep." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf." »Lewis Mumford |
| "Blessed are the young, for they will inherit the national debt." »Herbert Clark Hoover |
| "Well, it looks like the all-star balloting is about over, especially in the national and American Leagues." »Jerry Coleman |
| "The national task that had been incumbent upon me for 18 years is hereby confirmed." »Charles De Gaulle |
| "It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember." »Eugene McCarthy |
| "The national Rifle Association are the gun nuts of the world." »Cecil Andrus |
| "When your are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. It's more important than that." »Duffy Daugherty |
| "Sex is the tabasco sauce which an adolescent national palate sprinkles on every course in the menu." »Mary Day Winn |
| "I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting." »Ronald Reagan |
| "You will be pleased to know I stand obediently for the national anthem, though of course I would defend your right to remain seated should you so decide." »Ira Glasser |
| "My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. (On succeeding Richard M Nixon as president)" »Gerald R. Ford |
| "I do not feel betrayed. ... He has a fine record. He is a national hero. (On Oliver L North's work)" »Ronald Reagan |
| "Instead of putting a quarter under a kid's pillow, how about a pinecone That way, he learns that 'wishing' isn't going to save our national forests." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. ... What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it." »Henry Kissinger |
| "Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong." »George Carlin |
| "I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts." »Abraham Lincoln |
| "If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic national Committee at the Watergate were, in effect, breaking into the home of every citizen." »Sam James Ervin, Jr. |
| "Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage." »Lucille Ball |
| "We have achieved the most amazing things, a few million people opening up half a continent. But we have not yet found a Canadian soul except in time of war. (On lack of national identity)" »Lester Bowles Pearson |
| "Power always has to be kept in check power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous." »William Proxmire |
| "A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election." »Bill Vaughan |
| "Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run." »Margaret Mead |
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