Politics Quotes · Page 139

One role of government is to go where venture capital won't.

— Joe Biden

Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.

— W. C. Fields

Every time in politics they've a change of a leader, just remember they're changing liars.

— Jeremy Limn

Politics is for the present, while our equations are for eternity.

— Walter Isaacson

We'd be very happy to work with any government of the day which the people in India elect.

— Shehbaz Sharif

Far-left political ideologues want to reshape sports culture to their liking.

— Jason Whitlock

True liberal government is founded on the emancipation of men.

— Herbert Hoover

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

— Abraham Lincoln

ADMINISTRATION, n. An ingenious abstraction in politics, designed to receive the kicks and cuffs due to the premier or president. A man…

— Ambrose Bierce

“I didn’t know you were interested in politics,’ I said. ‘I’m not,’ he said. ‘But isn’t that how Hitler got elected in…

— Philip Kerr

Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war in Afghanistan, unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Even though I'm not Jamaican, I've always loved Jamaican culture because, to me, it's the island of magic, it's the island of…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

Under this scientific and moral pressure, the Canadian government conceded publicly that the use of these weapons in Vietnam was, in their…

— John Charles Polanyi

No matter how their leaders may have tried to skimp on money, no one, not even the politicians, who talked themselves red,…

— Clare Boothe Luce

Terrorism is a direct response to the crimes our government has committed against foreigners (besides which, the actual terrorists are within our…

— Gore Vidal

Big government conservatives are spending trillions and wasting billions. Republicans are no longer the party of fiscal conservancy, but the party of…

— Sherrod Brown

I fundamentally believe that politics is counterintuitive. The left think they're helping working people by providing more rights, but all that actually…

— Louise Mensch

“Little had changed after independence. Jomo Kenyatta’s face hung in a framed portrait in every shop where Queen Elizabeth’s had been. Some…

— Paul Theroux

And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in…

— H. L. Mencken

The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things, with commerce, government,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Law is justice. In this proposition a simple and enduring government can be conceived. And I defy anyone to say how even…

— Frederic Bastiat

The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we…

— Mark Twain

I would sooner receive injustice in the Queen's courts than justice in a foreign court. I hold that man or woman to…

— Enoch Powell

“What truly matters is not which party controls our government, but whether our government is controlled by the people. January 20, 2017,…

— Laura Ingraham

I haven't been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.

— Biz Stone

Throughout history government has seldom hesitated from robbing its citizens in a crisis.

— James Cook

The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.

— Thomas Jefferson

Our government just won't enforce civil rights laws. The laws will be ignored.

— Major Owens

The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.

— Emma Goldman

I don't think Bitcoin cares what the Chinese or American politicians do.

— Roger Ver

The distribution of patronage of the Government is by far the most disagreeable duty of the President.

— James Buchanan

You don't need qualifications as an actor or a politician. And I didn't want to be a politician.

— James Garner

I believe the test of government is the contentment of the people.

— Lian Hearn

My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

— Jesse Jackson

We have built something [a nuclear stockpile] bigger than we can drive.

— Rachel Maddow

“Only careful political manoeuvring will be able to manage the situation.”

— Davan Yahya Khalil

The President's post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.

— Anonymous

A real possibility now exists for a Government that is not led by either Fine Gael or Fianna Fáil

— Gerry Adams

Sport's always political and here it's more complex because we're a nation without a state.

— Joan Laporta

To make even fewer friends try talking about politics as much as you talk about yourself.

— Demetri Martin