Politics Quotes · Page 149

I want a minister to be in charge of a line department so they have clear political accountability.

— Campbell Newman

“Those who work for the government are never men of their word. -Axel Chambers”

— Rosie Scott

Our seniors deserve dignity, high-quality care, and a government that works for them.

— Andy Beshear

Public morals are natural complement of all laws they are by themselves an entire code.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

A contemporary politician has to be cognizant of things that are going on.

— Terry Mosher

Power just makes you reject destiny and devour your fate.

— Big Pun

If he wants their labor, let them go to work, without regard to politics.

— Charles E. Merrill

“There is no conceit equal to false modesty, and there is no politics like antipolitics”

— Christopher Hitchens

I do not believe that artists or actors and people should be out there like voicing their full-blown opinions on politics because,…

— Kid Rock

“I ran over some dog poop on my drive home last night. But I didn’t feel bad, because I didn’t vote for…

— Jarod Kintz

“If PBS shrank the number of stations and used the money from spectrum sales and government grants for programming, we would have…

— Jonathan Taplin

The government favors the most diplomatic language. That's why any letter to them should always start with, "Dear turkeys and foul maggots..."

— Christopher Titus

These days, government employees are better off in almost every area: pay, benefits, time off, and security, on top of working fewer…

— Mortimer Zuckerman

I think we have a political and moral duty to do everything within our power to maintain the Good Friday Agreement.

— Frans Timmermans

The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in government than in politics.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

I think everything has some politics to it. It's just whether or not it admits to it. Politics is weird. I don't…

— John Cusack

I don't see the theater as an establishment. The National Theatre has always seemed to me a people's theater. It was never…

— David Hare

Children in school are not students, they are pupils. It is typical of certain kinds of politicians that they should regard children…

— Anthony Daniels

If this government can send 20 billion dollars to Latin America to some peasants who have never fought for this country or…

— Malcolm X

“In concluding, I want to express the hope that the dealings of this Government of ours with the Indians will always be…

— William F. Cody

Politics has become incendiary. People don't find it so funny now so I have to be careful, but I have to wake…

— Hal Holbrook

“The deportation proceedings and appeals would last for fifteen years, but they were always hanging over Russell’s head. In the end when…

— Charles Brandt

Now, the political class tries to make sense of all of this, but they can't, because never has the political class or…

— Marco Rubio

Surely the President can agree with us, that theft from government is not good. I know it's bold. It's out on the…

— Newt Gingrich

Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.

— Johann Lamont

The federal government has invested billions in Metro, yet the system is not safe and is not reliable.

— Sam Graves

I'm in the government to make sure that if there's an opportunity to make peace, it won't be missed.

— Ehud Barak

A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character.

— Lysander Spooner

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.

— Lester B. Pearson

When it comes to foreign policy, it is important to remember that politics stops at the water's edge.

— Hillary Clinton

“Liberian women, from now on forward, my politics, you deserve better!!”

— Henry Johnson Jr

You cannot have politics without building mass-movements.

— Vijay Prashad

Who would you rather have represent you? A regular guy like me or a lifelong politician?

— Bob Backlund

The human spirit is stronger than any government or institution.

— Fela Kuti

Russ Feingold is a career politician. He's addicted to it.

— Ron Johnson

In any political job, you recognize that your time is going to be limited.

— Rod Rosenstein

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

— George Bernard Shaw

The government targets 'Anonymous' for the same reason it targets al-Qaida - because they're the enemy.

— John Perry Barlow

I just think political correctness is a limitation on our First Amendment freedoms.

— Corey Stewart

Washington, where an insignificant individual may trespass on a nation's time.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson