Politics Quotes · Page 155

Politicians are so... detested; they don't actually walk amongst people now.

— Irvine Welsh

I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments

— John Steinbeck

Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

— Horace

Do not criticize your government when out of the country. Never cease to do so when at home

— Winston Churchill

People are tired of the politics of Donald Trump. l really do believe that.

— Jaime Harrison

That government is not a necessary good but an unavoidable evil.

— Lyn Nofziger

The role of government is to create responsible greed to keep boundaries around what people do.

— Rebecca M. Blank

It seems that in the world of politics, lying is not such a big deal.

— Ali Larijani

One of the problems of the future world will be the use of leisure time. How will it be filled up? Maybe…

— Michelangelo Antonioni

And once again the government has failed to get the kind of cooperation from the relatives that might allow the case of…

— Peter Jennings

...free enterprise, [is] a term that refers, in practice, to a system of public subsidy and private profit, with massive government intervention…

— Noam Chomsky

“But I had little knowledge of Marxism, and in political discussions with my communist friends I found myself handicapped by my ignorance…

— Nelson Mandela

“He’s always complaining about the fucking recession and how the government is working against people like him. He calls himself working class,…

— Ida Løkås

“plots for the destruction of the United States government. "A desperate turn towards evil had come," she wrote, after hearing her brother…

— Jane Singer

I think there is a scientific approach to it and there is a political approach to it and an economical approach to…

— Veronika Varekova

Make no mistake - Putin and his gang of oligarchs pose a real threat to democratic governments, including ours.

— Tom Suozzi

“To my generation has now come the challenge. In the days to come we will be tested on whether we have the…

— Joe Biden

Our government and its social policies, its tax breaks, the way school days work, so much of the country we live in…

— Rebecca Traister

“Women deserve better than propaganda and lies to get into panties. Propaganda and lies to get into office, to get out of…

— Sonya Renee Taylor

Political society wants things simple. Political scientists know them to be complex... One could argue that, in part, the leftist impulse is…

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

“For the last century, almost all top political appointments [on the planet Earth] had been made by random computer selection from the…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“Consensus is not compromise. There is almost always some common ground that everyone can agree on that does not compromise the principles…

— Curtis Ferrell

Generation after generation, there is this never-ending, contemptuous, condescending attitude to the next generation or the next way of thinking: music, art,…

— Jean-Michel Jarre

I know the British press is very attached to the lobby system. It lets the journalists and the politicians feel proud of…

— Tom Stoppard

Even with the right political climate, would the wrong people refrain from doing the wrong thing?

— William A. Dembski

“Disappointment comes about when your only interest is in politicians.”

— Zerevan Chey

The energy I was sensing in audiences was political energy, as much as anything else.

— Michael Pollan

Even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror.

— George Washington

We mistake politics for legislative debate. You can be passionate without being personal.

— Richard Dreyfuss

Focus on the competition to diminish the time dedicated to internal politics.

— James Kerr

When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it.

— William J. Clinton

The only greater [evil] than separation... [is] living under a government of discretion.

— Thomas Jefferson

Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.

— Tom Lehrer

The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs.

— Hunter S. Thompson

The primary role of government is to provide for the safety and security of their populations.

— Pete Hoekstra

Sunil Dutt asked me, rather pushed me, to join politics.

— Ranjeet

I decided to go into politics because of our Soviet-style government.

— Bidzina Ivanishvili

The government takes the opposition day debates incredibly seriously.

— Andrea Leadsom

Political paralysis and partisanship are sabotaging American power.

— Max Boot

“The best one can hope for is a government favorable to certain claims and demands from the Left.”

— Gilles Deleuze