Politics Quotes · Page 151

A silent majority and government by the people is incompatible.

— Tom Hayden

The central issue of our time - of all times - is the size, power and scope of government.

— Grover Norquist

The great art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

As a poet, there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language from corruption.

— W. H. Auden

Political utopias are a form of nostalgia for an imagined past projected onto the future as a wish.

— Michael Ignatieff

When I was very young and came into politics, I basically thought ideas would do the trick.

— Margrethe Vestager

Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.

— Lord Acton

I once said cynically of a politician, "He'll double-cross that bridge when he comes to it

— Oscar Levant

I think anyone who serves in public office should have a little bit of contempt for government in their heart.

— Carlos Lopez-Cantera

The secret ballot makes a secret government; and a secret government is a secret band of robbers and murderers.

— Lysander Spooner

In recent years, anyone in the government, certainly anyone in the FBI or the CIA, or recently, in again, Clint's film, In…

— Charlton Heston

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another,…

— Henry David Thoreau

If I wanted to write a bunch of comics about 50-year-olds sitting around having a conversation about politics, that would be realistic,…

— Mark Waid

Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its…

— John Robert Seeley

Democracies are expense-averse and they think in terms of short-term, political interests rather than a long-term interest in stability.

— Samantha Power

Scottish politics, U.K. politics, is not really like American politics in this respect. Not everybody is absolutely obsessed with image. I'm not…

— Nicola Sturgeon

“I assured them that our government was not going to be ideological about this: if I was asked whether I was in…

— Yanis Varoufakis

Suppose a nation, rich and poor, high and low, ten millions in number, all assembled together; not more than one or two…

— John Adams

When a rapidly rising power rivals an established ruling power, trouble ensues. In 11 of 15 cases in which this has occurred…

— Graham T. Allison

We have conferred a mystic popularity upon officials whose only virtue is their timidity; while our scorn of rebels and reformers is…

— Will Durant

“Country jakes are always whining about the sanctity of states' rights and individual freedoms. Yet when a couple of queers want to…

— Chuck Thompson

The political process is not tied to any particular doctrine. Genuine political doctrines, rather, are the attempt to find particular and workable…

— Bernard Crick

All kinds of excuses have been given by governments for not implementing this recommendation like food price inflation. But the question is,…

— M. S. Swaminathan

For twenty years it had been generally known that an insidious Lobby was maintained in Washington to influence legislation and executive action…

— Margaret Case Harriman

“Politics isn’t won by commanding the facts, but by connecting with people’s experiences.”

— Milo Yiannopoulos

His own government, suing him, that's not Chocolate Sundae!

— William H. Gates, Sr

In a year of re-election he was desperate to impress.

— Rod Stewart

I don't want to be a politician. I want to be a leader.

— Susana Martinez

America is the place where you cannot kill your government by killing the men who conduct it.

— Anonymous

When it comes to drinking water, there is no room for political posturing or hollow solutions.

— Roy Cooper

Ask not what the government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.

— Gerhard Kocher

My father had no influence on my political beliefs, and to imply otherwise is wrong and irresponsible.

— M.I.A

When it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Governance is everything. Without governance we have nothing

— Mo Ibrahim

When it comes to political engagement, I'm not a politician - I'm an engineer.

— Edward Snowden

It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.

— William Hazlitt

A well balanced, inclusive approach, is essential for the proper government of any country.

— Laisenia Qarase

Those government officials who want more power are not going to stop unless they get stopped.

— Thomas Sowell

The only way to get money out of politics is to get politics out of money-making.

— Richard Salsman

[Adolf] Hitler didn't discuss politics or military with Eva [Braun]. Not once.

— Gretl Braun