Politics Quotes · Page 181

My involvement in politics was always to be the prankster and show the silliness of the situation.

— Vermin Supreme

Millions of people feel ignored by the political establishment.

— John McDonnell

Political power means the capacity to regulate national life through national representatives.

— Mahatma Gandhi

That's the trouble with a politician's life-somebody is always interrupting it with an election.

— Will Rogers

An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern.

— Tony Benn

The U.S. government has a problem with dead people. For one thing, it pays them way too much money.

— David Fahrenthold

“Politics of abundance, by contrast, arise from an ethic of measured restraint.”

— Mary Christina Wood

Anarchy [is] necessarily consequent to inefficiency.

— Thomas Jefferson

Any bailout of a private company is a bad decision by our federal government. Private companies have the right to succeed, but…

— Matt Salmon

The government will see that human spaceflight is useful - for science and the economy - and inspirational.

— Helen Sharman

I like to use my own language. Political movements are like living creatures - they develop. Each document expresses the times, the…

— Khaled Mashal

“I love physics because it is about truth, a world determined by principles and laws—no messing around or twisting things like in…

— Malala Yousafzai

With any new civilization... they have to have their own officers and police and governments and all that.

— Jimi Hendrix

Architecture and architectural freedom are above all a social issue that must be seen from inside a political structure, not from outside…

— Anonymous

Democracy is the most demanding of all forms of government in terms of the energy, imagination, and public spirit required of the…

— George C. Marshall

In this context the British and Irish governments will have to promote a new, imaginative and dynamic alternative in which both governments…

— Gerry Adams

Most people want nothing to happen. That is the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all the time;…

— Alexander McCall Smith

It [a new world order] needs only that the governments of Britain, the United States, France, Germany, and Russia should get together…

— H. G. Wells

Government has no right to control individual liberty beyond what is necessary to the safety and well-being of society. Such is the…

— John C. Calhoun

Learn to shrink yourself to the size of the company you are in. Take their tone, whatever it may be, and excell…

— Lord Chesterfield

“It’s all about the company you keep, isn’t it, Chief Inspector? Now Mr Trenton, who I know wouldn’t hurt a fly, has…

— Mark Ellis

If you track something like a political campaign and parcel out what's being communicated in a literal and narrative sense, and what's…

— Bennett Miller

Peace and commerce with foreign nations could be more effectually and cheaply cultivated by a common agent; therefore they gave the Federal…

— Robert Toombs

The Modi government says the farm laws will open agriculture to the corporate world. Who says this not already open to corporate…

— Amarinder Singh

I didn't say a bad thing about 'Politico' in my book.

— David Brock

In government as well as in trade a new era came to the colonies in 1763.

— Albert Bushnell Hart

All politicians are bores and liars and fakes. I talk to people.

— Martha Gellhorn

At the end of any peace deal, the decision-maker will be the government of Afghanistan.

— Ashraf Ghani

Take the Money and Run? Can Political and Socio-Critical Art ‘Survive’?

— Martha Rosler

American government was founded on a belief and a faith in God and in doing what is right and just.

— Ginny Brown-Waite

Whenever you come across a screw-up this big, you know the government is behind it.

— Ann Coulter

Big government doesn't help the middle class, it buries it.

— Marco Rubio

I don't want to be involved in any politics. I just want to be a tennis player.

— Aryna Sabalenka

The death penalty in the U.S. has become a political tool - and it should never be that.

— Lennie James

I think the political class, just overall, has underestimated the suffering in America.

— Nina Turner

“There are no beautiful houses in England now. Only ruins, mental homes, and Government offices.”

— Robert Aickman

“merged all forms of political spending—campaign, lobbying, and philanthropic—”

— Jane Mayer

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

— A. J. Liebling

I am not a politician. I am just a simple person who has come to break down this system.

— Volodymyr Zelensky

Politicians promise you heaven before election and give you hell after

— Emma Goldman