Politics Quotes · Page 134

I believe that politicians should implement the promises that they've given in manifestos.

— Jacob Rees-Mogg

“If men were angels, no government would be necessary - James Madison”

— Steve Berry

A government of laws without men is as visionary as a government of men without laws.

— Learned Hand

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

— Henry A. Kissinger

government has no business intervening in any consensual private behavior.

— Camille Paglia

We've got to trust the politicians with these decisions.

— George Carey

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.

— Andrew Jackson

“Got any stock tips?” I couldn’t help but ask. “The government doesn’t pay shit for salary.”

— Jeaniene Frost

“Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. —Henry Adams”

— Oliver Benjamin

A culture is as rich and as capable of surviving as it has imaginative artists, skilled men of science, a high ethic…

— L. Ron Hubbard

There are certain people within the new government who have a slightly disturbing tendency toward authoritarianism, but there are so many checks…

— Jonathan Shapiro

“You need to be careful about interacting with corporate controlled governments, as killing people is part of their business model.”

— Steven Magee

Indeed, bribery, favoritism, and corruption in a great variety of forms were rampant not only in politics, but in all levels of…

— David McCullough

“In spite of its poverty, its political upheavals, its lack of resources, Haiti is not a peripheral place. Its history has made…

— Yanick Lahens

The idea that more taxes and more government spending is the best way to help hardworking middle class taxpayers - that's an…

— Marco Rubio

London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of…

— Benjamin Disraeli

A crook is a crook, and there's something healthy about his frankness in the matter. But any guy who pretends he is…

— Al Capone

In a democracy, you don't need anyone's permission to form a new political party, publish a politically charged article, or organize a…

— Gary Hamel

You've got to deploy serious political assets around a plan [in Darfur]. And the George W.] Bush administration has never had a…

— Samantha Power

There are some times when something is proposed which becomes personal to you and you realize the Government is about to do…

— Crispin Blunt

Because of the demands of court politics and the public position in which they lived, George I, George II and their children…

— Lucy Worsley

It seemed to me singularly ill-contrived for the British government to be going to war with Hitler when Hitler might have been…

— Maurice Cowling

Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

We must evaluate the political sympathies of other states and the effect war may have on them. To assess these things in…

— Carl von Clausewitz

A lot of artists say, I'm not political. People are afraid of this word.

— Holly Near

“Government activities that are for public consumption are eyewash from the citizens.”

— Dennis Garvin

“Military strategy...has become the diplomacy of violence.”

— Thomas C. Schelling

Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Paula Milne was really the first thing that drew me to 'The Politician's Husband.'

— David Tennant

If you ever get a war without blood and gore, well, I'll be the first to go.

— Phil Ochs

Politics is still the No. 1 sport in town and the scoreboard shows the U.S. attorney's office leading.

— Bill Kurtis

“A patriot fights his government for his people whilst a traitor fights his people for his government”

— rassool jibraeel snyman

We are the things and shapes to come, your freedom's not free of dumb.

— Marilyn Manson

This is an appropriate role for the federal government - to invest in basic research.

— Todd Young

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

— Albert Camus

If this government is like the last one, then Iraq will break apart.

— Saleh al-Mutlaq

The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

— Voltaire

I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

— Nikhil Saluja

Everything is so weird in politics that it's very hard to be funny about it, I think.

— Tom Lehrer

The government is us; WE are the government, you and I."- Theodore Roosevelt

— Theodore Roosevelt