Politics Quotes · Page 179

It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel.

— Ted Turner

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

— Winston Churchill

If I did not speak with people who call me names, I could not engage in politics.

— Geert Wilders

“Intolerance breeds hatred. Hatred creates divisions. Divisions destroy common grounds.”

— Mamur Mustapha

Look, I'm an actor, I'm not a politician. I'm not a statistician. I'm not a legislator.

— Tom Hanks

I am not one who - who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.

— George H. W. Bush

Silicon Valley wouldn't exist without massive government spending and in fact initiative.

— Noam Chomsky

Is it government's job to make up for someone's mistakes?

— Jesse Ventura

Leaders get things wrong. Of course they do. They have imperfect information. They face competing political pressures. Ultimately they are human.

— Barry Gardiner

Part of the reason some Japanese companies have underperformed financially was corporate governance and board structures.

— Jamie Dimon

For me, politics is not a career. For me, my career was being in business and starting a business and making it…

— Mitt Romney

In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

I was elected leader of our party, for a new kind of politics, by 60% of Labour members and supporters. The need…

— Wes Streeting

By leveraging their freedom from the bonds of location, corporations could now dictate the economic policy of governments.

— Joel Bakan

Populist promises to reverse every tough decision are nothing but empty rhetoric, irresponsible leadership, and bad politics. They are not the solution…

— Enda Kenny

“The Government is making a fool of itself by attributing all terrorism and acts against the government only to one single patriot”

— Carlos Marighella

Too many people are surfing the web and trying to figure out the politics of getting a movie made or taking meetings…

— Scot Armstrong

I write about misuses of evidence in plenty of different spheres: scaremongering journalists, obvious quacks and naturopaths, and flaws in the way…

— Ben Goldacre

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that…

— Dalai Lama

As a woman thrust on to the political stage and baffled by the anger and depth of negative feeling I have been…

— Gina Miller

The attraction of power we take for granted in politics.. But in economics...the thrust...is for pecuniary return, for money. And I have…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Had I represented twenty thousand voters in Michigan, that political editor would not have known nor cared whether I was the oldest…

— Susan B. Anthony

Over the years, as I lived in low-income housing, collected government assistance, and lived well under the poverty level as I put…

— Stephanie Land

“How idle then is the notion that some entertain, that the establishment of this plan of government will speedily extricate us out…

— Thomas Cogswell Upham

Better to be uneducated than educated by your government.

— Penn Jillette

Government is of the people,for the people, and by the people.

— Merliah Summers

Nobody wants a judge to be subject to the political whim of the moment.

— Stephen Breyer

The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie.

— George Deukmejian

Politics in a democracy is, at the end, an educational process.

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

I have never, ever in my life practised politics on the basis of caste, sect, or religion.

— Rajnath Singh

The government should be actively enforcing the high road.

— Jared Bernstein

I had no intention to cover my tracks since I am not a politician and I do not represent anybody.

— Tariq Ramadan

All of my political career, I've fought for the taxpayers.

— Tom Price

No government in the world kills its people, unless it's led by a crazy person.

— Bashar al-Assad

“Oppression is the seed of power; you will plant it against yourself”

— Kamaran Ihsan Salih

You don't really know what to believe until the Government denies it.

— Brian Wilson

No government can make me wear a veil, no government can force me not to wear it either

— Shirin Ebadi

I... grew up in politics and I used to work for the Democratic Party.

— Harvey Weinstein

Too often government responds to the whispers of lobbyists before the cries of the people.

— Andrew Cuomo

We have not come into politics with 'Badle ki Bhavna' but we have come with 'Badlav Ki Bhavna'.

— Narendra Modi