Quote #74
The Republicans stroke platitudes until they purr like epigrams.
More from Adlai Stevenson
- Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation.
- An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
- A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
- A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: protocol, Geritol and alcohol.
- After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquillity of a political convention.
- We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil; all committed, for our safety, …
- For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
- On this shrunken globe men can no longer live as strangers. Men can war against each other as hostile neighbors, as we are determined not t…