Politics Quotes · Page 121

The intergenerational poverty that troubles us so much today is predominantly a poverty of values.

— Dan Quayle

The world would have peace if only men of politics would follow the Gospels.

— Bridget of Sweden

Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.

— Alexander Pope

You can't be involved in modern American politics without somebody attacking you.

— William J. Clinton

I'm apolitical. Where all that Conservative business came along from, I don't know.

— Cilla Black

By the way, I am the least political member of my family - I have no future in politics.

— Neil Bush

I am neither a Whig nor Tory. My politics are described in one word and that word is England.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Logic, sometimes has very little to do with political action.

— Alexander Mackenzie

Environmental regulation looked like it was going to be under serious attack, and they were giving all of those speeches about getting…

— Robert Hass

As prime minister, I was conscious of walking in Whitlam's footsteps as our government set about creating a companion to Medicare, the…

— Julia Gillard

In the arsenal of the phony, the politics of God is one of the deadliest punches to the sweet spot of the…

— Ben Fountain

A free man must not be told how to think, either by the government or by social activists. He may certainly be…

— Jeff Cooper

People think of politicians having true power, but that's less and less true. After all, they are often constrained or being edged…

— Bernard Arnault

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

— Thomas Jefferson

My dad, who really had so much foresight, said that we were living at a time when we needed more representation and…

— Humza Yousaf

The only government that I recognize--and it matters not how few are at the head of it, or how small its army--is…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The Nation, which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a…

— George Washington

Often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government is an existing government employee committed to public integrity…

— Barack Obama

“As the exalting one man so greatly above the rest cannot be justified on the equal rights of nature, so neither can…

— Thomas Paine

They [ the government of Puerto Rico] are asking to be given the right to declare bankruptcy, which I think should be…

— Marco Rubio

When Ronald Reagan's administration was exposed for having illegally sold arms to Iran to raise money covertly for the Contra rebels fighting…

— Heather Cox Richardson

Right after September 11, 2001, there weren't really any blogs in China, but there were a lot of Chinese chatrooms - and…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

“You end up with a machine which knows that by its mildest estimate it must have terrible enemies all around and within…

— Nick Harkaway

Power from any source tends to create an appetite for additional power. It was almost inevitable that the super-rich would one day…

— W. Cleon Skousen

But if not Kelso, then something else, because a free people must own the nation they live in.

— Nicholas von Hoffman

I have to confess, street politics are not my usual style.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

We need to find a way to empower citizens to make governments take notice.

— Ian Goldin

Government must help to eliminate cars so that bicycles can help to eliminate government.

— Advocacy Slogan In Holland

In politics it commonly takes a superior woman to overcome the handicap of traditional prejudice.

— Bertha Knight Landes

I'm not a career politician, so the ways of Washington may be a little obscure to me.

— Michael Bennet

In the political world, the only position I have is voter. I'm not a spokesman for anything.

— Tommy Lee Jones

We depend on the Supreme Court to uphold the integrity of our government.

— Frank Lautenberg

Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics.

— Charles Peguy

I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics.

— Ken Livingstone

Law and order is the responsibility of the state governments.

— Mamata Banerjee

“I believe in absolutely nothing except yeast and the inevitability of politicians.”

— Kerry Greenwood

You make government number one, and people give up their rights.

— Beneil Dariush

Government today, far from protecting property, is its main threat.

— Roger Pilon

My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.

— Indira Gandhi

To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.

— Nigel Lawson