Politics Quotes · Page 184

One does not fight corruption by fighting corruption.

— Daniel Kaufmann

It is a powerful signal when a politician's home state does not back him or her in a national contest.

— Scott Bessent

I think politics is the biggest lever of change in India.

— Nandan Nilekani

People too smart to get involved in politics are doomed to live in societies run by people who aren't.

— Plato

British politics is more nuanced. Part of the problem with New Labour is that they are a moving target.

— Rory Bremner

All growth, including political growth, is the result of risk-taking.

— Jude Wanniski

“The problem with that analysis is that it is incorrect.”

— Herman Cain

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.

— Bill Gates

As freedom is the only safeguard of governments, so are order and moderation generally necessary to preserve freedom.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

The little I know of it has not served to raise my opinion of what is vulgarly called the Monied Interest; I…

— William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

The positive aspect of my negative view is essentially that you shouldn't own cash and government bonds, but you should be in…

— Marc Faber

Let's get this straight now: a Senate impeachment trial is not a court of law. It's a court of politics.

— Mike Braun

I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s, before we had any government. It worked rather well, and there…

— Ron Paul

One of my personal theories of 'The Mayor' is that I feel like the show arrived on the scene at a time…

— Channing Dungey

The idea of self-reliance is important to me, and that is echoed, in my way of thinking, by a conservative approach to…

— Kelsey Grammer

The Government have made it clear that the constitutional treaty will be ratified in the UK only after a referendum.

— Geoff Hoon

When you are serving volunteer professional military, you take an oath to the Constitution, not to a policy or a president and…

— Nathaniel Fick

The State Department allowed Hillary Clinton to remove and destroy government email records, and now we've figured out the State Department is…

— Tom Fitton

So you've got these regular, middle-class voters who don't hate the government as much as the Kochs do. They're Republicans, but they…

— Jane Mayer

“He read political books. They gave him phrases which he could only speak to himself and use on Shama. They also revealed…

— V.S. Naipaul

“When the government puts its imprimatur on a particular religion it conveys a message of exclusion to all those who do not…

— Harry A. Blackmun

There is a difference between constitutional government and judicial dictatorship, and I think it's time we remembered that our Constitution was not…

— Alan Keyes

I'm the enemy because I like to think. I like to read. I'm into freedom of speech and freedom of choice. I'm…

— Denis Leary

There is more to life than material well-being. Who would claim that the wholly wage-dependent family enjoys the dignity, the security, the…

— Louis O. Kelso

Locke contended that government originates out of the necessity for protecting property.

— Russell Kirk

Politicians have made people cry... politics has become a circus.

— Gurpreet Ghuggi

It is important that South Africans of all political persuasions be represented in Parliament.

— Cyril Ramaphosa

If we're free to do what we want, why does government always have a plan for us?

— P. J. O'Rourke

Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.

— Woodrow Wilson

Americans acknowledge that liberty is a gift of God, not an indulgence of government.

— Mitt Romney

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

— Henry Adams

Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.

— Barbara Mertz

Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.

— Langston Hughes

[Donald Trump] hedging his bets because he's used to buying politicians.

— Marco Rubio

People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.

— Anonymous

“Your right of religious freedom ends where my right of religious abstinence begins...”

— T. Rafael Cimino

“Someone needs to put a muzzle on President Trump sooner rather than later.”

— Steven Magee

“Ketahui semua yang kau katakan, tetapi jangan katakan semua yang kau ketahui.”

— Hendri Teja

“Why do people look to the government to fix the economy? It's mind-boggling.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

Over the years, the tax code has become a vehicle for political favoritism and social engineering.

— Bill Bradley