Politics Quotes · Page 150

See, my passion is films and I don't believe in political parties.

— Suresh Gopi

People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

— Laozi

Hillary Clinton is the most corrupt politician ever to seek the office of the presidency.

— Donald Trump

Pakistani prisoners are safe in Indian jails. We are a responsible government.

— Preneet Kaur

A man in his own secret meditation / Is lost amid the labyrinth that he has made / In art or politics.

— William Butler Yeats

Nothing commends a radical change to an Englishman more than the belief that it is really conservative.

— H. A. L. Fisher

The next war in the Middle East will be fought over water, not politics

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Subversive, ethical, ecological, political, humorous ... this is how I see my duty as a designer.

— Philippe Starck

It's interesting how identity politics and Ann Coulter-style tactics have now blossomed. But they were always there in CPAC.

— Mark Shields

We cannot ever accept a government that thinks they can get away with tiny targets on climate which they then don't achieve.

— Elizabeth May

For too long, we've attached some mythic notion to government solutions, and yet, 40 years after we began the War on Poverty,…

— Rand Paul

A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“The prime minister had abused his position as minister in charge of the SIS to embarrass another politician only months before an…

— Nicky Hager

The answer to one is the answer to all. Government by 'the people' is expedient or it is not. If it is…

— Carrie Chapman Catt

Here was this vast machinery of government and they didn't know how it ran, where you put in the gas, where you…

— Anonymous

“A brick has eight edges and six sides. That’s nearly as many sides as a politician takes when discussing a binary issue.
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— Jarod Kintz

I have a great respect for the flag, (but) if the government passed a law saying that I had to pledge allegiance…

— Jimmy Carter

“Moralistic culture views government as a positive force, one that values the individual but functions to the benefit of the general public.…

— William Earl Maxwell

The question is how do you do it [more consumer protection] so that it actually works that way? And that takes analysis,…

— Jamie Dimon

One thing, however, is certain. Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year's presidential…

— John Paul Stevens

My father was into politics. After his death things got slow. We were meeting different parties and everywhere I heard people grumbling…

— Vishwajeet Pradhan

“From the founding of the Republic to 1929, spending by governments at all levels, federal, state, and local, never exceeded 12 percent…

— Milton Friedman

Political correctness is an intellectual sickness. It means lying when telling the truth is not expedient. It is a disgusting habit and…

— Ali Sina

When the period arrives - come when it may - that this government will be compelled to resort to internal taxes for…

— John C. Calhoun

The federal government may not disarm individual citizens without some unusually strong justification.

— Laurence Tribe

People ask me what book politicians should read. They should read the life of Mahatma Gandhi.

— Marina Abramovic

I have a million ideas. The country can't afford them all.

— Hillary Clinton

A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.

— Dorothy Parker

I have no desire to enter politics. Because I am not suited for that.

— N. R. Narayana Murthy

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

— Thomas Jefferson

Angela Merkel and the CDU are not our political adversaries. The CDU and the CSU are sister parties.

— Horst Seehofer

If youre going to play the game properly, youd better know every rule.

— Barbara Jordan

Perhaps the only institution more puffed-up and self-important than academia is government.

— Neil Steinberg

'Hamlet' is a play of many strange parts, with ghosts and players, politicians and clowns.

— David Farr

I tell people view the federal government as a source of entertainment. It's a lot easier.

— Dave Barry

Politics is the art of realizing what there is to realize.

— Adam Michnik

“That’s what you people do, isn’t it? Make assumptions and sell them to impressionable idiots.”

— Michael Monroe

The Union government can do a lot more for poor states like Orissa.

— Naveen Patnaik

I cherish the accomplishments of Margaret Thatcher and will always count her as one of my role models.

— Sarah Palin

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

— Benjamin Disraeli