Politics Quotes · Page 157

“An educated, healthy & confident nation is harder to govern”

— Tony Benn

I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.

— Marat Safin

I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master.

— David Rockefeller

The United States influences government and life everywhere else.

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.

— James Reston

I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique.

— William Hague

Obama is a statist. He's an authoritarian. He doesn't want to govern; he wants to rule.

— Rush Limbaugh

We never believe in divisive politics; we always work for an inclusive politics.

— Rajnath Singh

Pluralism has been the driving fact behind political theory now since the Copernican revolution and the wars of religion that were spawned…

— Barry Gardiner

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice…

— Alexander Hamilton

The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.

— Ludwig von Mises

Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement.

— John Stuart Mill

With it adult political audiences abandoned cinemas. In their place appeared a void. That previous political audience migrated to the seats in…

— Andrzej Wajda

As the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, I see on a daily basis the impact of politics and policy on my family,…

— Pete Buttigieg

Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read…

— Mark Twain

But now we got weapons Of the chemical dust If fire them we're forced to Then fire them we must One push…

— Bob Dylan

It's unreasonable to me that there's a government in which the culture minister attacks the institutions she's responsible for. The justice minister…

— Benny Gantz

“-“I remember my father telling me about England’s redrawing of India’s boundaries when it became independent. They wanted to separate the Hindu…

— David Baldacci

The Reformed Church was identified with the old all-white government of South Africa and its apartheid policy. The Roman Catholic Church was…

— Edd Doerr

Look for a church that might ask that you become poor. A church that is more concerned with showing love to those…

— Tripp York

I had run other people's campaigns. I had been doing political activities for a decade before I ever ran for office myself.…

— Mazie Hirono

In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. ...under the republican forms…

— James Madison

“Until you actually join this government you say that you defend and join it on the same basis as any other citizen…

— Walter Jon Williams

Large companies and government agencies have a lot to protect and therefore are not willing to take big risks. A large company…

— Peter Diamandis

“A handicap parking permit is not a reward for a lifetime of poor eating habits...”

— T. Rafael Cimino

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

— Charles de Gaulle

Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?

— Abbie Hoffman

Literature is higher than politics, if not actually above politics.

— Gao Xingjian

Things don't always go according to plan. That's life and that's government.

— Grant Shapps

“In countries where all the crooked politicians wear pinstriped suits, the best people are bare-assed.”

— Paul Theroux

I honestly believe I'd make one of the worst elected officials in the history of this country.

— Ross Perot

“The reason politics makes strange bedfellows is because they all like the same bunk.”

— Los Angeles Times

Politics, as any observer of the modern world knows, is the enemy of economics, everywhere and always.

— John Derbyshire

What's with the poverty Tourette's? Why do these two think we need a hobo for president?

— Jon Stewart

[In politics,] when there is no reason to speak, there is a reason not to speak.

— David Frum

I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes.

— Demetri Martin

“What is the difference between yesterday occupation & today's freedom.”

— Islam A. ElDegwi

If I do talk politics it's very surface, it's not in-depth.

— Brad Williams

Judges,lawyers an politicians have a license to steal.We don't need one.

— Carlo Gambino

The government that is wise will consider what is best for all its people.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti