Politics Quotes · Page 104

We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built.

— Larry Niven

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.

— Lord Acton

Less government in business and more business in government.

— Warren G. Harding

How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics?

— William Butler Yeats

Even if I am paid in crores, I have no interest to venture to politics.

— Mumtaj

“DNA governs probabilities more than it dictates destinies,”

— David B. Agus

Good governance, safety, a chance to grow economically and professionally - those are important things.

— Dana Perino

I would rather have newspapers without a government than a government without newspapers.

— Thomas Jefferson

We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans. One of…

— Donald Kagan

What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea.…

— David Lloyd George

Personal convictions are not politics. Personal convictions, if they become the subject of a group conviction, they become a cult.

— Norman Finkelstein

Benjamin Netanyahu understands that the standing ovation he got in Congress this year was not for his politics. That ovation was bought…

— Thomas Friedman

When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes your heart.

— George W. Bush

I am more interested in the purpose of government than its mechanics-though the means should at least be good enough to lead…

— Aminu Kano

Effective communication is built on the cement of trust. And trust is based on trustworthiness, not politics.

— Stephen Covey

What's not OK is using government policy and taxpayer dollars to push for an investigation if the motivation is purely political.

— Steve Hilton

What bothers me is that I don't see the eagerness for a genuine solution to the political people on the opposite side.…

— Rush Limbaugh

We have investigative staff who are charged by law and this committee under the Constitution of the United States has a responsibility,…

— John Mica

“Often it does not matter much what the law says; the politics will circumvent it. Every devastated watershed, every new mile of…

— Mary Christina Wood

Harlem for me is Atlanta, Las Vegas, and Washington, D.C., in one place. You have very significant churches that have had national…

— Mike Colter

We don't need more of the same, typical politicians fighting for themselves and for special interests. We need someone to believe in…

— Tim Walz

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote…

— Erwin W. Lutzer

The federal government... announced a plan to spend, like, a trillion of taxpayer dollars to buy out bad mortgages and debt. Wall…

— Bill Maher

The Commission has five commissioners from each side, plus three alternates, so all together sixteen members, people who are independent from the…

— Jose Ramos-Horta

The government of our great country belongs to all of the people and not just a handful of the wealthy.

— Bernie Sanders

Love is by far bigger than the government can ever be.

— Jesse Ventura

Government can do best by simply getting out of the way.

— Gavin Newsom

I think we need politicians; we need people who want to serve.

— Iain Banks

Winning an Oscar ain't about performance. There's a lot of politics involved.

— Mickey Rourke

From the U.S., we need strong political support for the Ukrainian peace plan - the Minsk agreement.

— Petro Poroshenko

I don't view myself as a political leftie. I view myself as a storyteller who is fair to both sides.

— Tim Robbins

Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.

— Mason Cooley

Combating climate change requires collaboration with many levels of government.

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Fashion is totally political, the icon of a political system.

— Sebastian Lelio

The assumption that everyone in government is a bad actor imperils our democracy.

— Asha Rangappa

Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.

— Clement Attlee

The government is corrupted. It's corrupted. It is not about regular people.

— Steve Schmidt

You have to spend your political capital on great causes for your country.

— Brian Mulroney

“Politics is the process by which a society chooses the rules that will govern it.”

— Daron Acemoğlu

As bad as we sometimes think our government is run, it is the best run I ever saw.

— Will Rogers