Political Quotes · Page 71

If you ask the government to impose morality, then moral questions will be decided by whoever has the most political power.

— Harry Browne

I've never seen more dishonest media than frankly, the political media. I thought the financial media was much better, much more honest.

— Donald Trump

As soon as I set foot in the parliamentary Sinai, I ceased to be in touch with the masses.

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Like so much else in Washington, inflation has become a political football. That's unnecessary.

— Jake Auchincloss

We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.

— Thomas Jefferson

Unfortunately, the Obama administration is more interested in furthering its political agenda than in following the law.

— Luther Strange

We have two political parties in this country, the Stupid Party and the Evil Party. I belong to the Stupid Party.

— Alan K. Simpson

President Trump used the office of the Presidency to solicit foreign interference in our elections for his own personal, political benefit.

— Sharice Davids

America has become the most unequal society among advanced countries, and rich people are now free to spend as much money on…

— Robert Reich

So was it a political mistake for Obama to put so many eggs in the health-care-reform basket? Well, a negative decision from…

— Eric Alterman

We already have two branches of federal government that factor political considerations into their decision-making, and our Founding Fathers determined long ago…

— Thom Tillis

Hamas murders not only Israelis, but also Palestinians whose political stance is different from that which its group promotes; that is, its…

— Mosab Hassan Yousef

I have no regrets about my political activity, only that I sometimes got carried away with it and didn't find the right…

— Howard Zinn

Labour under Jeremy Corbyn is not afraid to take on the very wealthiest, committing to the most comprehensive anti-tax avoidance plan ever…

— Clive Lewis

The executions, persecution and imprisonment of political dissidents and the LGBT community, denial of free press, elections and religious freedoms, continue to…

— Andy Garcia

The Redistricting Reform Act of 2024 establishes standardized rules to make sure congressional districts represent communities instead of political parties.

— Laphonza Butler

You know well that government always kept a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to…

— Thomas Jefferson

The Second World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences between the Fascists and the political Zionists. This war…

— Albert Pike

They [the Soviets] intend...to induce the Americans to adopt their own 'restructuring' and convergence of the Soviet and American systems using to…

— Anatoliy Golitsyn

The Syrians lost out because they happened to have their revolution during an election cycle in America, France, and bizarrely, some kind…

— Paul Conroy

We have won on the Arlov, Kursk, Belgorod, and Kharkov grounds. We won because the country was being defended not only by…

— Ivan Bagramyan

“At bottom, politics was a hullabaloo of equal and individual competitors who would only be guaranteed to cooperate for one cause: the…

— Anthony Everitt

Unlike most government programs, Social Security and, in part, Medicare are funded by payroll taxes dedicated specifically to them. Some of the…

— James Surowiecki

I feel like I'm changing as a human being, and I think that the work needed to be in line with where…

— Fernando Mastrangelo

To think about love and passion and political correctness all together, it doesn't work. Art has to go way past the political…

— Louise Erdrich

Politics /n/: from 'poly ticks', short for 'many small bloodsucking insects'.

— Henry Spencer

Through elections, the citizenry directs political decision-making. Their views are what informs campaigns and government decisions.

— Jessica Tarlov

I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.

— Yann Martel

I should have written more. I should have written more during the period when I just liked so much doing the political…

— Grace Paley

I don't think that what's going on in Bosnia is political activity. It's partly political, but it's partly atavistic as well.

— John Keegan

But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

I am aware that if I do become the president, I, too, could be processed for any political wrongdoing.

— Michel Temer

Without a unified political climate of opinion, there is little or no political profit in doing the right thing.

— William A. Dembski

“deeming any particular BMI pathological is a political rather than a scientific act.”

— Esther Rothblum

Economics is primarily useful, both to the student and to the political leader, as a prophylactic against popular fallacies.

— Henry Calvert Simons

I'm running for Governor because we need a political outsider to move Missouri forward.

— Eric Greitens

I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me,…

— Ralph Nader

The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.

— Ronald Reagan

The nature of our two main political parties has changed in the United States.

— Roger Mahony

Gun violence has cost us too many political leaders, and hardly ever the worst ones.

— P. J. O'Rourke