Harry S Truman Political Quotations

This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever apologize for anything.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.

It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.

I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.

You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.

Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.

I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.

The President is always abused. If he isn't, he isn't doing anything.

It sure is hell to be president.

This generation, raised on "Eyewitness News," conditioned by the instant replay, and spared the illumination that comes from tedious historical study, tends to be even more ahistorical than most.

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were political enemies, but they became fast friends. And when they passed away on the same day, the last words of one of them was, The country is safe. Jefferson still lives. And the last words of the other was, John Adams will see that things go forward.

The Republicans believe in the minimum wage -- the more the minimum, the better.

Of course I believe in free enterprise but in my system of free enterprise, the democratic principle is that there never was, never has been, never will be, room for the ruthless exploitation of the many for the benefit of the few.