Solomon Ibn Gabirol Quotes

Make no contracts that will bind me.

Words are also actions.

No amount of promises to the needy at election time will make the wrong policies rights; nor would lessen the enormous price we have to pay for them.

Saying is one thing and doing is another.

Don't read our lips. Read our record.

Voters never grow weary of illusory promises.

Let him say not one single word about his principles, or his creed—let him say nothing—promise nothing. Let no Committee or Convention—no town meeting ever extract from him a single word, about what he thinks now, or what he will do hereafter. Let the use of pen and ink be wholly forbidden as if he were a mad poet in Bedlam.

There are two kinds of politicians, those who talk and promise and those who listen and do.

Would you please shut up and sit down.

All men prefer a false promise to a flat refusal.

If you make a promise, the thing is still uncertain and depends on a future day .. but if you refuse, you alienate people to a certainty and immediately.

If you don't say anything, you can't be called upon to repeat it.

For every speech given by a politician there should be a tax levied thereon.

Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.

If we promise as public officials, we must deliver.

What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.

Illuminate choice.

Do after election as before election you said you would.

The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.

Yesterday's promise, like tomorrow's never comes.

Don't talk of what you're "going to do!" Do it!

A silent man is not a conquered man.

I have supported a great many who promised to do things that I thought ought to be done, who proved faithless to their promises.

If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.

I’ll be with you until the last dog dies.