Politics Quotes · Page 146

Politicians should inspire you to vote, they should appeal to people.

— Kenneth Clarke

The government's focus is very clear: borrow, build, monetise and repay.

— Anurag Thakur

The uniformity and obedience of the media, which any dictator would admire...

— Noam Chomsky

I think there will be no government bankruptcy in Greece.

— Wolfgang Schauble

The second office of this government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.

— Thomas Jefferson

You’re not going to get anything politically correct out of me.

— Kid Rock

The land of milk and honey, they say it is the land of money.

— Bob Dylan

Our politicians may fail us, but Status Quo always delivers on the promise.

— Ian Anderson

The Chinese government sometimes shuts down the Internet and mobile services in specific areas where unrest occurs.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

When the media goes state and becomes nothing more than an echo chamber for the government, the task of sharing truth falls…

— Dana Loesch

Either we have the government forcing us and telling us what we have to do, where we have to do it and…

— Paul Ryan

Of course in a democracy the government and the citizens have to abide by court rulings, even if we don't like them…

— Ayelet Shaked

What are you so mad about? That we still have a government? We still have “traffic lights.” We’re sorry. The government’s not…

— Jon Stewart

You can have great ideas, and you can have all the right policy goals. But unless you're expanding who is included in…

— Michelle Wu

“Council housing, once the cherished centrepiece of Bevanite socialism, took just twenty years for successive governments to pick apart.”

— Lynsey Hanley

It is significant that the nationalization of thought has proceded everywhere pari passu with the nationalization of industry.

— Edward Hallett Carr

“People are not hungry because there is no food in the world. There is plenty of it; there is a surplus in…

— Ryszard Kapuściński

“As shown in chapter 2, the Pentateuch largely rejects the monarchic principle as it was construed elsewhere, often with a religiously sanctioned…

— Joshua A. Berman

One of the worst things to come out of the Consumer Protection Board's misleading claims is the impression that government resources are…

— Matthew Lesko

The First Amendment to the Constitution reflects that concept recognized in the Ten Commandments, that the duties we owe to God and…

— Roy Moore

Here we have the heart of the difference between Hayek and Keynes: one knew that markets work to give us the best…

— Jeffrey Tucker

[John] Adams never had an optimistic view of human nature, and his experience in the Congress and abroad only deepened his suspicion…

— Gordon S. Wood

“The strangeness of the Barrayaran government system with all its unwritten customs, pressed on Cordelia not so much as first glance but…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

Americans from all walks of life have voiced their deep frustration with Washington's seeming inability to get anything constructive done. For decades,…

— Thom Tillis

A government of, for and by the people, requires much from the people.

— Ernie Fletcher

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

— Alexander Hamilton

When politics becomes a profession, money becomes the strategic advantage.

— Tasneem Hameed

If men were angels, there would be no need of government.

— James Madison

The object of government is the welfare of the people.

— Theodore Roosevelt

When governance improves, there will be less have-nots and more haves.

— Kiran Bedi

There's something political about creating a world that you want to exist.

— Justine Kurland

The [political] left are people with an imagination and the right are those without an imagination.

— Amos Oz

To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I liked singing, but I didn't like all the politics and nonsense that went with it.

— Kym Marsh

“In America the president reigns for 4 years, and journalism governs for ever and ever.”

— Oscar Wilde

The power of taxing people and their property is essential to the very existence of government.

— James Madison

History is past politics, and politics is present history.

— Edward Augustus Freeman

Politicians all too often think about the next election. Statesmen think about the next generation.

— Linda Lingle

I think political parties can be funded in a perfectly rational way without being corrupt.

— Naveen Patnaik

I want to make an impact in my community. That is why I initially got into politics.

— Jasmine Crockett