Politics Quotes · Page 135

Symptoms of ethical, political and economic impoverishment are all around us.

— Henry Giroux

Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people.

— Abraham Lincoln

All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy.

— Leo Tolstoy

There are no necessary evils in government. It's evils exist only in it's abuses.

— Andrew Jackson

Quite frankly, my constituency crosses a very wide swath of the political spectrum.

— Vermin Supreme

“Politics corrupted science because its own interest was only war.”

— Osho

When there was a Congress government in Maharashtra, no one bothered about law and order.

— Raj Thackeray

I mean, the last thing I want to do is be involved in politics.

— Dierks Bentley

The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending - with the exception of the money spent on them.

— Matt Taibbi

The great pillars of all government and of social life [are] virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and…

— Patrick Henry

A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty…

— A. J. Liebling

Respecting the sovereignty means preventing coups, unconstitutional actions and illegitimate overthrowing of the legitimate government. All these things should be totally prevented.

— Vladimir Putin

“I discovered that night (in his college's student politics) that an audience has a feel to it, and, in the parlance of…

— Ronald Reagan

Make me a dictator for five years and I would remove all the dirt from the Indian politics and make it clean.

— Dharmendra

Obama quickly became an effective advocate for the view that government is a critical part of the solution to society's problems. So…

— Kirsten Powers

Chaos and ineptitude are anti-human; but so too is a superlatively efficient government, equipped with all the products of a highly developed…

— Aldous Huxley

There's social media where people's politics are out there, they're forwarding articles and seem engaged, but it's only online. We tweet and…

— Sara Pascoe

“Oh, and although I don’t particularly like the IRS, I still do not like terrorists and have no desire whatsoever to attack…

— Jay Williams

It seems to me that as economics drives politics and money markets set policies, what we have is an enormously powerful emergence…

— Henry Giroux

“I'm not naive…I grew up in a white supremacist compound with a daddy who wanted to murder innocent people and blow up…

— Toni Anderson

I ran because I became convinced after King was shot and killed, and Martin Luther King was one of the great heroes…

— Maynard Jackson

You might not like that Facebook shares your political opinions with Politico, but are you really going to delete all the photos,…

— Al Franken

You get the same order of criminality from any State to which you give power to exercise it; and whatever power you…

— Albert J. Nock

“We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world—a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill…

— Hunter S. Thompson

Governing is occupying but not interesting, governments are occupying but not interesting.

— Gertrude Stein

Killing is always wrong, even governments are not exceptions.

— Vijayashanti

“Politics is for the moment and equation is for eternity.”

— Albert Einstein

To be honest, politics is so weird. I think it's more heavy than religion.

— Chris Bosh

I don't like to dabble in anything I don't do well. I don't talk politics.

— J. B. Smoove

Only a firm government that acts tough on fraudsters can send the right signals to the country.

— N. Chandrababu Naidu

I don't think politics is any longer about a conversation with the country.

— Jon Stewart

Governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions.

— Leo Tolstoy

The basis of our government (is) is opinion of the people.

— Thomas Jefferson

To go from politics to news, at least the subject matter is the same, even if the view is different.

— Jerry Springer

“Being a politician is a lot like being an alcoholic in denial.”

— Huntley Fitzpatrick

Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values.

— Diane Abbott

I've been in the government bureaucracy, I've practiced law, I've done a lot of different things.

— John Bolton

There is no word more "dangerous" than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new "unforgivable sin."

— Fulton J. Sheen

I personally thank Rahul Gandhi. He has given me complete free hand in running the government.

— H. D. Kumaraswamy