Political Insults & Putdowns

The main advantage of being famous is that when you bore people at dinner parties they think it is their fault
Henry Kissinger

Mr Mencken talks about truth as if she were his mistress, but he handles her like an iceman
Stuart Sherman 1868-1944 on HL Mencken

I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born
Ronald Reagan

A slur upon the moral government of the world
John Quincy Adam 1767-1848 on Thomas Jefferson

Nothing more than a well meaning baboon
General McCellan on Abraham Lincoln

If they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them
Adlai Stevenson on the Republican party

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time
Charles de Gaul on Winston Churchill