Politics Quotes · Page 124

Of all political sacred-cows, education is the most sacred and the most cow-like.

— Enoch Powell

It's a pattern. Prices go up, consumers get angry, politicians investigate, nothing changes.

— Sean Comey

Government schools will teach children that government is wonderful.

— Neal Boortz

People have decided that career politicians may be part of the problem, not part of the solution.

— Carly Fiorina

I think over the long run, it's better that government does not regulate the content of speech.

— Ted Lieu

Should the political process not work, there is always the other approach.

— Adel al-Jubeir

I hate politics. What they say and what they do is completely different.

— Tadashi Yanai

Which is the best government? That which teaches us to govern ourselves.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Political orientation is unimportant in populism because it does not deal in evidence or detailed proposals for change but in the manipulation…

— Margaret MacMillan

A newborn has more skills than does a politician. The infant babbles, burbles, cuddles, coos; the politician just babbles.

— Derek Cooper

We should all be able to have faith that our governments are working in our best interests - and if they aren't,…

— Lauren Mayberry

Many governments are quick to condemn Assad, but a dwindling number of them would celebrate a rebel victory in Damascus.

— Richard Engel

Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words.

— Bruce Jackson

I love talking about Kennedy assassination...a great archetypal example of how totalitarian government...sorry, wrong meeting.

— Bill Hicks

Job creation requires a business friendly environment with a tax structure that is not punitive and a state government designed for efficient…

— Anonymous

For any politician who didn't enter office a wealthy man, nothing says 'I take bribes' like a Rolex watch.

— Timothy Noah

It's time to replace career politicians with citizen's politicians. It's time to elect people who are going to stand up to the…

— Christine O'Donnell

It is amazing how many people act as if the right to free speech includes the right to be free of criticism…

— Thomas Sowell

The question really is what will be the central focus of global politics in the coming decades and my argument is that…

— Samuel P. Huntington

What the government needs to provide business is certainty, and I think we can do that with common-sense, science-based, tax reform, regulatory…

— John E. James

“It is the political change in international relations as well as a change in superpower fortunes which indicate that the days of…

— Richard Connaughton

If any man's money can be taken by a so-called government, without his own personal consent, all his other rights are taken…

— Lysander Spooner

Men and women ... do you not realize that the State is the worst enemy you have? It is a machine that…

— Emma Goldman

“The Constitution doesn’t give us rights: it restrains government from infringing on rights we acquire at birth by virtue of being human…

— Thom Hartmann

“Standing with Israel is not a political mandate. It is a prophetic mandate.”

— Dalton Lifsey

We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.

— Adlai E Stevenson

I think to be in politics you have to have the taste for blood on that.

— Moira Kelly

It is a government by the corporations, for the corporations.

— Rutherford B. Hayes

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

— T. S. Eliot

The message from the United States and Europe is that governments must live within their means.

— Julie Bishop

Ammunition beats persuasion when you are looking for freedom.

— Will Rogers

We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.

— Patricia Hewitt

Our constitutional scheme - the design of our government - is erected to prevent tyranny.

— Ketanji Brown Jackson

Psychological mapping for political ends is now going to be part of every campaign.

— Gina Miller

There's nothing more dangerous than a panicked politician.

— James Zogby

I like politics. I have an opinion. I like politics because it's fun.

— Poppy

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.

— Ted Koppel

Child support should do just that - support children, not the federal government.

— Paul Ryan

A leftist government doesn't exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.

— Gilles Deleuze

The most underestimated risk for a politician is overexposure.

— Donald Rumsfeld