Politics Quotes · Page 118

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

I may not be a politician, but I will fight to the end of my life for what I believe in.

— Bidzina Ivanishvili

Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.

— Anonymous

Sometimes sports serves as a reprieve from politics, and sometimes it serves as an extension of it.

— Clint Smith

“[R]evolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning;”

— David Hume

Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

— Jerry Garcia

“politics is about the improvement of people’s lives.” I”

— Al Franken

I am often in contact with the hareidi public and politicians.

— Naftali Bennett

I'm very political and I'm not ashamed of it, and I think having the platform I have, I want to take advantage…

— Amybeth McNulty

There are Five kinds of lies: Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, Politicians quoting statistics, and Novelists quoting Politicians on Statistics

— Stephen K Tagg

There are men who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

News flash: The federal government is not the most efficient institution in the world. Taxpayers know that.

— Jon Ossoff

Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and…

— Bob Riley

If you are going to stick to the truth then you need to keep your distance from the Chinese government and indeed…

— Liao Yiwu

While I'm optimistic about the direction the world is headed, generally, I think there is a need for constant vigilance and pressure…

— Jimmy Wales

There are no little people in America. There are only people, equal before the law, yearning to breathe free and wanting to…

— Ayn Rand

Hurricane [Katrina] hit the Gulf Coast and destroyed much of the Gulf Coast - that was an act of God ... Now…

— James Carville

One of the symptoms of a declining social order is that its members have to give most of their time to politics,…

— Bernard Crick

If we're going to improve the environment, the first thing we should do is duck the government. The second thing we should…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“Sometimes in history the name of God has been invoked on behalf of actions and movements that have ennobled the human soul…

— Jim Wallis

“They were so ignorant! Young men and women, educated very carefully to be apolitical, to be technicians who thought they disliked politics,…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

Wherever politics intrudes upon economic life, political success is readily attained by saying what people like to hear rather than what is…

— Hans F. Sennholz

Only three things them ladies talk about: they kids, they clothes, and they friends. I hear the word Kennedy, I know they…

— Kathryn Stockett

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of…

— Ronald Reagan

We became the first political movement in Italy, and the media didn't even realize it.

— Beppe Grillo

After establishing myself as politician I will take decision about my future in film industry.

— Nagma

Deficit, deficit, deficit. The political and media elites are obsessed with the D-word.

— Mehdi Hasan

A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.

— Indira Gandhi

Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend?

— Roger Ebert

Crime is contagious…if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law.

— Louis D. Brandeis

Ive always considered the government taking one out of every two dollars I earn absolute tyranny.

— Steven Van Zandt

I was very happy being a secretary. I loved working for the government. I was very happy with my life.

— Fawn Hall

I'm a politician, and as a politician I have the prerogative to lie whenever I want.

— Charlie Peacock

Not to have a correct political point of view is like having no soul…

— Mao Zedong

The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political

— Adrienne Rich

No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough.

— Saul Alinsky

The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy.

— Bashar al-Assad

The solution to government surveillance is to encrypt everything,

— Eric Schmidt

The federal government is way larger than it should be.

— Ron Johnson