Politics Quotes · Page 125

Anything that shifts power from the individual judgment of free citizens to government is a bad thing.

— Mark Steyn

“I just stepped in shit, and now I’ve got political rhetoric all over my shoes.”

— Jarod Kintz

President Obama chose politics over leadership. 'Hope' and 'Change' have become bait-and-switch.

— Lindsey Graham

Politics is opposed to morality, as philosophy to naïveté.

— Emmanuel Levinas

Every voter has a right to criticise a government and comment on its functioning.

— Radha Ravi

“I will never attribute any of my discoveries to a corrupt USA government.”

— Steven Magee

Those people upstairs think that Karl Marx was somebody who wrote a good anti-trust law.

— Warren Beatty

“Not only did I not get it done, but I’m over budget too. I’m like a politician.”

— Jarod Kintz

The only study that the federal government has engaged in with a vengeance is in trying to see if they can make…

— Patricia Schroeder

My feet are firmly planted in my political ideology. To me, it's being authentic in every area, and that includes politics.

— Natasha Rothwell

Politicians have a tremendous amount of ego to be able to do it. It's very hard when the product your selling to…

— George Clooney

Every night at dinner, my father would say something about the greatness of the United States - and tell us to make…

— Raja Krishnamoorthi

Democracy in many parts of the world is undergoing a very deep crisis. Politics is becoming a branch of the entertainment industry.…

— Amos Oz

“I don’t think he’s dumber than a politician. But only because it’s not possible to be dumber than a politician.”

— Jarod Kintz

“I want to keep politics out of my breakfast. Politics isn’t something I want in my eggs, no matter how scrambled I…

— Jarod Kintz

States are better equipped to serve students than the federal government, and we should direct funding to programs that have a demonstrated…

— Tommy Tuberville

Businessmen have a different set of delusions from politicians; and need, therefore, different handling. They are, however, much milder than politicians, at…

— John Maynard Keynes

If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I'd like to come back to the West eventually. In the end abroad I am always a stranger, active politics in particular…

— Rory Stewart

In his fifty-six years he was at times many things, including a fugitive, prisoner, rising politician, army leader, legal advocate, rebel, dictator…

— Adrian Goldsworthy

Exxon, one of the companies that has spent tens of millions of dollars denying climate change, denying any responsibility to deal with,…

— David Suzuki

I want people in all the government agencies to be communicating with people because for me, we're in an era - which…

— Hillary Clinton

“If we had any leisure we would here digress a little on that ingratitude which so many writers have observed to spring…

— Henry Fielding

But our perfect democracy, which neither needs nor particularly wants voters, is a rarity. It is important to remember there still exist…

— Jon Stewart

Even if you didn't want to have anything to do with the politics, you have to.

— Thundercat

The priority for my government is that there will be development for everyone, equally.

— Michelle Bachelet

This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances.

— Gracie Allen

I'm not one of those people for which politics is my sole preoccupation.

— David Lammy

Buying Gold Is Just Buying A Put Against The Idiocy Of The Political Cycle. It's That Simple!

— Kyle Bass

I couldn't imagine a more incompetent politician than myself.

— Marc Benioff

For me, politics is giving your word, standing by it, and abiding by it no matter what.

— Urmila Matondkar

Sitting out of politics isn't really an option if you don't want things to slide.

— Alison Pill

Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.

— Edmund Burke

Global warming, like Marxism, is a political theory of actions, demanding compliance with its rules.

— Paul Johnson

So actually we didn't have any contacts with UFO organizations. It was all strictly government.

— Betty Hill

I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics.

— Simon Cowell

Until all women are lesbians, there will be no true political revolution.

— Jill Johnston

I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government.

— Milton Friedman

The paranoid fear of government is an extremist position, and every one of us ought to say that

— Patricia Schroeder

An efficient and a successful administration manifests itself equally in small as in great matters.

— Winston Churchill