Politics Quotes · Page 143

Being nice to governments doesn't work, they are such lying bastards.

— Joy Baluch

A great many political speeches are literary parricides; they kill their fathers.

— George D. Prentice

Comfortable and political can go together quite well.

— Mick Hucknall

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

— Daniel Webster

I'm neither left or right. I'm just staying home tonight, getting lost in that hopeless little screen.

— Leonard Cohen

The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark..

— Jack Anderson

I am known as a good actor and, I dare say, a good politician.

— Shatrughan Sinha

Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.

— Joseph Stalin

“No political body is sacred, sustainable or under protection, which allows the exploitation of its weakest citizens.”

— Bryant McGill

I am neither Republican nor Democrat. I am a registered independent because I find that I cast my votes not on the…

— Walter Cronkite

Come to find out, the Russians were never afraid of the Americans. They weren't raised with the terror that we were by…

— Deidre Hall

I think Winston Churchill is an appallingly bad politician, and always has been, that he hung onto power long after he should…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

What's not OK is using government policy and taxpayer dollars to push for an investigation if the motivation is purely political.

— Steve Hilton

In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also…

— Al Gore

Socialists believe otherwise - a man is not competent enough to make decision should he use seatbelt, should he buy insurance, and…

— Janusz Korwin-Mikke

I knew that if we were going to actually defeat Harry Reid, we had to have a candidate who would offer a…

— Sharron Angle

The power of the masses can influence any government in the world. The power of the masses can elect an official, start…

— Jason Mraz

“The Bible is right: A deluge of images does encourage idolatry. Look at the cults of personality in America today. Look at…

— A.J. Jacobs

“It doesn't have any effect on your life. What do you care?! People try to talk about it like it's a social…

— Louis C. K

Although my seat is a contest between Labour and the Lib Dems, it could well make the difference between a Labour and…

— Lucy Powell

“The people who believe themselves superior to you will reveal themselves in how they respond to criticism from you. An opinion of…

— Crystal Evans

[Freedom] is the greatest of political goods. I do not say freedom is the greatest of all goods: the best things come…

— Bertrand Russell

Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the…

— Ayn Rand

The state of law is equal for all people. It cannot depend on electoral politics.

— Baltasar Garzon

“I find that the world is changing much, much faster than I can even bitch about it.”

— Bill Maher

The manufacturing and packaging of homogeneous experience is what politics in America is about.

— Howard Rheingold

The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.

— Emmeline Pankhurst

When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.

— Walter Lippmann

In politics, no argument is as persuasive as electoral success.

— Nick Boles

Some of the FDA's own scientists have charged that politics, not science, is behind the FDA's actions.

— Joseph Crowley

Politics should be done by earning love and affection and by winning the hearts.

— Rajnath Singh

We are so beaten down by political correctness that most of us are numb to the surrender of America.

— Jeanine Pirro

Politics was never in our blood and in our family... I will never return to it.

— Govinda

Don't steal, don't lie and don't cheat. The government hates competition

— Nishan Panwar

When democratic governments create economic calamity, free markets get the blame.

— Jack Kemp

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

— Thomas Jefferson

Nor let us part with justice, like a cheap and common thing, for a small and trifling price.

— Plutarch

And a government that accepts that it will be judged more by its deeds than by its mere words.

— Tony Abbott

No one's gonna sympathize when we crash, they'll say you hit what you head for, you get what you ask.

— Ani DiFranco