Politics Quotes · Page 188

Political dictatorships take possession not just of money and belongings but of narrative.

— Hisham Matar

Every individual should be expressing themselves, whether a politician or a minister or a policeman.

— Dave Brubeck

“The political brain is shaped like a peanut, only not as big.”

— Jarod Kintz

Government should stay the hell out of people's business.

— Barry Goldwater

War can only be abolished by the establishment of a world government.

— Bertrand Russell

Eternal life should be sought elsewhere, perhaps in the religious community, not politics.

— Matt Salmon

When the government gets involved in pricing, I don't think it's the right way to look at a business.

— Jamie Dimon

Politicians must let voters know what they think about issues before the election. Judges should not.

— Jon Kyl

“Saving children in humanity should always weigh greater than all world politics. The children we save today is the future that we…

— Timothy Pina

What got us out of the depression was capitalism, and we would have gotten out a lot quicker had the government not…

— Peter Schiff

American Communists have the opportunity to preach freely their ideas. It would be absolutely wrong to hold the Soviet government responsible for…

— Joseph Stalin

I am not a big fan of politicians turning tragedy into opportunity, but I believe that which politician a victim's family wants…

— Barkha Dutt

Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics…

— Jesse Jackson

We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of…

— Calvin Coolidge

Politicians want you to speak up about them when it comes time to vote. Yet, they NEVER speak up about protecting children…

— Anonymous

Who uses funds more productively - private citizens or the government? I dare say that Warren Buffett can use his surplus funds…

— Mark Skousen

Government, in its very essence, is opposed to all increase in knowledge. Its tendency is always towards permanence and against change...[T]he progress…

— H. L. Mencken

“In South Africa, we have more political parties than we have in our social crisis. Yet none of our problems are being…

— De philosopher DJ Kyos

“The new economy also generated a bloated bureaucratic class. The number of state functionaries employed by the government rose from 720,000 in…

— Elliott Liu

The notion that big business and big labor and big government can sit down around a table somewhere and work out the…

— Bruce Babbitt

We are creating a political demolition derby, not a presidential debate. Those strange impulses in the American soul that have produced mud…

— Hugh Sidey

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed,…

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Additional federal studies are under way to see if any contamination reaches taps or ground water used for drinking, but the program…

— Andrew Revkin

For the first time since 2007 there is political momentum behind fixing the immigration system. President Obama in his State of the…

— Juan Williams

I think, as ever, with a big change like Brexit, it's awakened people's interest in politics.

— Andrea Leadsom

When you start attacking cronyism and people's political interests, it gets nasty.

— Charles Koch

I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.

— Sam Wyly

What we have in the United States is not so much a health-care system as a disease-care system.

— Edward Kennedy

I don't care about the politics, I don't care about the practicality, I don't care about any of it.

— Clancy Martin

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I am confident that Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana will open the doors of good politics.

— Narendra Modi

Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.

— Jeremy Bentham

“If you lead, we'll be behind you," one House leader said, "but we'll be way behind you.”

— George W. Bush

I'm much more upset about Breaking Bad's shutdown than about the government's.

— Anonymous

We're not a political band, we're a socially-minded band.

— Chester Bennington

My fidelity is to my country, not my political party. Country first.

— Steve Schmidt

The more power government has to provide things, the more power it has to dictate terms.

— Sheldon Richman

Experience counts in government even more than in business.

— Mo Ibrahim

We shouldn't leave the work of politics to people who run for public office.

— Hillary Clinton

I grew up with so much of the identity of being Muslim and being Arab tied around politics.

— Ramy Youssef