Politics Quotes · Page 162

The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it.

— Louis Simpson

Government is like junior high. Your status depends upon whom you're able to persecute.

— Jonathan Kellerman

I hadn't really thought about politics as a career in my twenties or early thirties.

— Amber Rudd

Politics is like boxing — you try to knock out your opponents.

— Idi Amin

I think it's important for politicians to have moral qualities.

— Barbara Sukowa

We shouldn't accept mediocrity as the best a politician can do.

— Joe Manchin

Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Both political parties have their good times and bad times, only they have them at different times.

— Will Rogers

Russia does not and cannot have any political choice but democracy. I want to say, and even stress, that we share those…

— Vladimir Putin

The disturbing truth is that there's probably more sincerity than not in American politics. We may not want to believe it, but…

— Jamelle Bouie

In politics, you have to balance these things: what is good for the country, what is available, and what is possible.

— Subramanian Swamy

I don't think Edward Snowden deserves a death penalty or life in prison. I think that's inappropriate. I think that's why he…

— Rand Paul

We make a great bad guy, and they all say they hate us. But at the end of every day, people want…

— Brad Meltzer

Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It…

— Hugo Black

There are some people in politics and in the press who can't be confused by the facts. They just will not live…

— Hillary Clinton

I am very emotional about politics in a way that makes it hard for me to articulate things in a rational fashion.

— Lupita Nyong'o

Instead of the Government spending $400,000 on immunisation, we may get far better health outcomes if we spend $100,000 in some other…

— Michael Moore

“It’s not just tougher out there. It’s become a situation where the contest is how much you can destroy the system, rather…

— Peter Hart

There is something I call social intelligence. You can do a lot in life on your own and you can do all…

— Robert Greene

Our party and the Republic's government will go hand in hand with anyone who truly desires the country's reunification and the nation's…

— Kim Jong-un

This spirit [of Party], unfortunately, is inseperable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human Mind. It…

— George Washington

The government of the United States doesn't want peace. It wants to exploit its system of exploitation, of pillage, of hegemony through…

— Hugo Chavez

I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement. Yes, I'm a writer, but I live in this world,…

— Jose Saramago

Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as…

— James McGreevey

Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.

— Thomas More

Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.

— Robert A. Heinlein

My theory is this; I'm not a political songwriter. I'm an honest songwriter.

— Billy Bragg

In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.

— Catherine the Great

As long as I count the votes, what are you going to do about it?

— Boss Tweed

I just want to say, those who want to bring down my government, do it right away.

— Uddhav Thackeray

I don't think I'm made of the right stuff to be a politician. I think I'm made to be a loose cannon.

— Penn Jillette

Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.

— Bob Edwards

As a political exile, you always think you're going home next year.

— Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada

Traditionally, Africans hate governments. They hate tyranny.

— George Ayittey

Good government has essentially broken down in the face of Brexit.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

My political position is that I'm happy to be alive and in North America.

— David Letterman

“Modern governments have the pernicious problem of trying to reward too many corporate donors.”

— Steven Magee

Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

“Man is a political animal. A man who lives alone is either a Beast or a God”

— Aristotle

I'm no longer a believer in politicians endorsing other politicians.

— Corey Stewart