Politics Quotes · Page 130

Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?

— Milton Friedman

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.

— Will Rogers

The government doesn't go about refuting everything that floats around.

— Nirmala Sitharaman

Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.

— Jacques Barzun

The mischiefs of anarchy have been equaled by the mischiefs of government.

— Henry Ward Beecher

It is up to the government to keep the government's secrets.

— Robert Novak

The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

— Seneca the Elder

I am hesitating about joining politics since I know the difficulties.

— Rajinikanth

Part of the problem with politics is we don't have people who want to get in the fray because of guys like…

— Amy McGrath

Those tax-exempt bonds were put in so that a town or a state or a government could sell more bonds than it…

— Will Rogers

It is one of the greatest economic errors to put any limitation upon production.We have not the power to produce more than…

— Louis D. Brandeis

“I could end the deficit in five minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of…

— Warren Buffett

Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind.

— Thomas Paine

I don't believe in politics. I only believe in my people. And my people - the ones that follow me - are…

— Ozuna

Women tend to give political candidates only about 10 percent of what males give, and males give women candidates only 10 percent…

— Maureen Reagan

Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school…

— Saul Bellow

The Israel stories were really hard for me to write, because I think that my book is very much about politics, but…

— Molly Antopol

“Because these characters perform against the vast backdrops of American politics and social upheaval, and because their personal destinies, their wishes, and…

— James W. Hall

I think it's a good thing that we can have relatively non-partisan political conversations because I don't think that my premier necessarily…

— Naheed Nenshi

We'll rail against the way the government has destroyed our health care market in one breath and resist the support offered to…

— J. D. Vance

It was of limited usefulness to head great rallies. The government did not listen, and, soon enough, the tear gas and the…

— Oliver Tambo

“In this country, you look at a person, and you know them. It is the inside-out way the people of this country…

— Maxine Beneba Clarke

Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our…

— Al Gore

The common people feel themselves oppressed by the grasping of some, and their vanity is flattered by others. Fired with evil passions,…

— Polybius

Reviewing a government budget is much like going through the attic in an old home.

— Rick Scott

Have the most reliable friend you can have in American politics, and that is ready money.

— Phil Gramm

“The psychological and political reasons to overcompensate by insisting on victimhood were strong.”

— Timothy Snyder

And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.

— Billie Joe Armstrong

There is nothing political about American literature.

— Laura Bush

We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.

— Viola Davis

Look, not everybody plays well with each other on the playground. I get that, that's politics.

— Michael Steele

I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators 'the haute couture of language.'

— Anna Deavere Smith

[The politician] is asked to stand, he wants to sit, and he is expected to lie.

— Winston Churchill

I am an educationist. I'm an economist. I am a politician. I am also now a good storyteller, you know?

— Robert Mugabe

Anything government or politics is always exciting for me.

— Peter Jacobson

And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.

— Barney Frank

All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war.

— William S. Burroughs

“Art is not the handmaid of politics. It is its own remedy! And its healing is sacral.”

— William Everson

“Remember: Humanity is greater than all of the world's politics!”

— Timothy Pina

To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as mortals.

— William Penn