Politics Quotes · Page 182

When you start attacking cronyism and peoples political interests, it gets nasty.

— Charles Koch

We believe in only the government we need, but we insist on all the government we need.

— Mario Cuomo

The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.

— Benjamin Franklin

Government lawyers have a duty to disclose evidence of wrongdoing in the government.

— Ken Starr

We have had government funding for new media since the early '80s.

— Francesca Da Rimini

Government school education across India is in shambles.

— Atishi

To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.

— Irene Peter

The more the government has centralised, the less houses we have built.

— Grant Shapps

It is our misfortune that we are living in such an age in which people want to achieve success even by climbing…

— Mohd Aariff Khan

Let's face it, politics in this country is coin-operated. Does that really equate to a real democracy? It's very difficult to say.

— Ted Waitt

It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927…

— Anonymous

“The odd American idea that giving money to political campaigns is free speech means that the very rich have far more speech,…

— Timothy Snyder

I thought I was leaving elected office and politics in order to focus on schooling, but as you know, schooling turns out…

— Eva Moskowitz

Many people leave government disillusioned about its ability to achieve change and cynical about politicians. I left with rather opposite lessons.

— Geoff Mulgan

You pretty much remove the entire political texture from Blackwater when you come to China. What they look at is our 100…

— Erik Prince

Politics is mainly about interests. As Muslim citizens, we understand these interests but we should put principles and dignity beyond everything.

— Tariq Ramadan

I think it's disingenuous for people to talk in their living rooms about government collapsing, the possibility of total anarchy, but when…

— Augustus Sol Invictus

“Seeing you dumpster diving the other day, I meant To say hello and toss you a quarter, but the Secret Service wouldn't…

— Linh Dinh

“Using visualizations to express political positions introduces a bias into the form, thereby distancing these visualizations from their social scientific counterparts that…

— Carl DiSalvo

The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more…

— Abraham Lincoln

When the people are too much attached to savage independence, to be tolerant of the amount of power to which it is…

— John Stuart Mill

I've always been a big supporter of the Constitutional right of the people to peaceably assemble and petition government for redress of…

— Lowell P. Weicker, Jr

The kinds of people we need in government are precisely the kinds of people who are most reluctant to go into government…

— Thomas Sowell

Impeachment is the direct constitutional means for removing a President, Vice President or other civil officers of the United States who has…

— Ramsey Clark

You can't get something for nothing. Everybody remembers this except politicians.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I do not accept the right of big powers to change governments as and when it affects their interests.

— Tariq Ali

I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.

— Barbara Kingsolver

My dreams of NHL glory were never fulfilled so I had to settle for politics instead.

— Pierre Poilievre

Ceremonies are the first thing to be attended to in the practice of government.

— Confucius

I haven't made a political statement in quite a long time because, frankly, they get repeated, changed.

— Tom Selleck

I was quite young when my dad went into politics but, as it went on, I became self-conscious about it.

— Ardal O'Hanlon

In January 2014 I left the Department for Education and spent the next 18 months away from politics.

— Dominic Cummings

No matter who you vote for, the government stays in power

— Stefan Molyneux

Sarah, there's a government inside the government, and I don't control it.

— William J. Clinton

Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.

— George Orwell

I am not a consensus politician... This is something that is really very un-Dutch.

— Geert Wilders

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

— Paddy Ashdown

When foreign governments hold Americans they always claim it's a criminal case.

— Robert C. O'Brien

Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.

— Oscar Wilde

“Not slaves,” said Halyard, chuckling patronizingly. “Citizens, employed by government.”

— Kurt Vonnegut