| "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 |
| "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 |
| "My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. (On succeeding Richard M Nixon as president)" »Gerald R. Ford |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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. |
| "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 |
| "I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest." »Winston Churchill |
| "The Queen Mother, with a lifetime's popularity, seemed incapable of a bad performance as national grandmother-warm, smiling, human, understanding, she embodied everything the public could want of its grandmother." »John Pearson |
| "There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness." »Grover Cleveland |
| "Israel will not transfer Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza District to any foreign sovereign authority, [because] of the historic right of our nation to this land, [and] the needs of our national security, which demand a capability to defend our State and the lives of our citizens." »Menachem Begin |
| "The political lesson of Watergate is this Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election." »Gerald R. Ford |
| "Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach." »Woodrow Wilson |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
