Politics Quotes · Page 113

We have no more fundamental obligation in government than to ensure the safety of our citizens.

— Bob Ehrlich

I don't consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying.

— George Michael

Getting fit is a political act - you are taking charge of your life.

— Jane Fonda

I probably pay more attention to politics than what I used to.

— Kano

“It is imperative that we replace those who think they own this country, with those who built it.”

— Alec Baldwin

Politics has become infused with narcissism in America.

— John Oliver

The last thing I wanted to do was put politics into my music... because music was my escape.

— Gloria Estefan

WikiLeaks is what happens when the entire US government is forced to go through a full-body scanner.

— Evgeny Morozov

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.

— John Perry Barlow

Career politicians like Marco Rubio worry more about keeping the job than doing the job and are constantly looking for their next…

— Carlos Beruff

“The innocent put their faith into their government, whereas the smart do their own research and adopt protective lifestyle changes based on…

— Steven Magee

In policy arena after policy arena, Democrats respond to every failure of clunky government by proposing the addition of still more layers…

— Ben Sasse

“Unfortunately, in the social as in the political world, the victims are such cowards that one cannot for long remain indignant with…

— Marcel Proust

You should expect everything. Not necessarily through the government, the governments are not the only player in [Middle East] region.

— Bashar al-Assad

It is up to the historians, not politicians, to judge what happened in the past. Politicians look into the future.

— Egemen Bag?s

I believe in a balanced government. I don't believe in minimum or maximum. Balance is always the best way.

— Sonia Gandhi

“The Quiet World In an effort to get people to look into each other’s eyes more, and also to appease the mutes,…

— Jeffrey McDaniel

So many of the new nations which were established as democracies after the second world war, during the decolonizing process, have now…

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage & whup…

— Hunter S. Thompson

“Many in Europe saw an opportunity to escape the oppressive and overbearing governmental systems under which they languished, and these people emigrated…

— Ben Carson

“learned two things from the students. One was that they disliked identity politics. They thought that Hillary spent too much time trying…

— Donna Brazile

“When I talk on the phone with my brother Ivo, who is a theology instructor at Baylor, he invariably wants to talk…

— Josip Novakovich

That the government's power under the Taft-Hartley Act to stop a strike by injunction so clearly strengthens the hand of the employer-even…

— Peter Drucker

So if you think America's politicians and citizens are willing to make the changes necessary to strengthen the U.S. dollar, then don't…

— Robert Kiyosaki

I'm a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.

— Billy Joel

The core threat to democracy is not in the White House, it's the [Bush] haters themselves.

— David Brooks

The biggest problem was the politicians knew nothing about fighting a war.

— R. Lee Ermey

I have never been driven by partisan politics, only a desire to better the lives of my constituents.

— Jeff Van Drew

Is there a way to discuss climate change without politics or religion getting in the way?

— Don Cheadle

The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government.

— Mitt Romney

Roller-skates and disco are a lot of fun, I'm much too young and stupid to operate a gun.

— Frank Zappa

There are only two questions about government. How much do you want? How much can you stand?

— James Cook

I know people don't like America very much, but the one thing it's very good on is local government.

— Heather Brooke

Governments can inflate their way out of debt, but that has consequences, doesn't it?

— Kent Conrad

“Freedom exists only where people take care of the government.”

— Woodrow Wilson

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

— Sydney Pollack

Anyone who seeks to be involved in politics should join hands with America.

— Muqtada al Sadr

Nixon was the beginning of people not trusting politics.

— Daryl Hall

Americans overthrew governments only when economic interests coincided with ideological ones.

— Stephen Kinzer

I would absolutely never use the federal government to enforce the law of using marijuana

— Ron Paul