Politics Quotes · Page 193

“I see the confusion of politics and religion as one of the greatest barriers to grace.”

— Philip Yancey

Netanyahu's government and its faulty and politicized priorities are leading Israel into bankruptcy.

— Tzipi Livni

I am a single mother of two sons and politics demands 100 per cent commitment.

— Zeenat Aman

'Reform' is pillage and plunder if you're against it, and it's good government if you're for it.

— Pete Laney

Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Everything goes wrong for a government which is going wrong

— Richard Crossman

Terrorists can only take my life. Only my government can take my freedom.

— Bruce Schneier

We are not doing celebrity, personality, abusive politics - we are doing ideas. This is about hope.

— Jeremy Corbyn

The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout…

— Anonymous

Politicians get their power too late, and I think that he has inherited an impossible situation in which he is ill-equipped to…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

For Russia, there is not and there may not be another political option but democracy. However, Russian democracy is... not at all…

— Vladimir Putin

There's a political party in America that has an almost fanatical opposition to even the most minimal standards of gun safety -…

— Ritchie Torres

“For political matters Kennedy relied heavily on able strategists—critics called them the Irish Mafia—such as Kenneth O'Donnell and Lawrence O'Brien.”

— James T. Patterson

“Governments are too stupid to understand that too much red tape does not bind a nation together—it tears it apart.”

— Jarod Kintz

Governments have always been wary of the arts because they're wayward and ambiguous and because they deal with feelings rather than facts.

— Richard Eyre

My difficulty with the whole right-left construct is that I don't think it describes modern politics or the modern choices that people…

— Leo Varadkar

Once the war began, the government could do anything 'necessary' to win it; so it was with the 'final solution of the…

— Milton Mayer

If you love a woman, you can dominate her. That's why lovers go on playing politics with each other, dominating, possessing; the…

— Rajneesh

Neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance, whether they be…

— John McCain

There is one lesson from the past, in particular, that we cannot afford to ignore: You cannot make progress on gender equality…

— Hillary Clinton

“Venice, ruled by a Council of Ten for 500 years, has a history of secretive government by a cosy nexus of political…

— Anonymous

Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little. We…

— Warren G. Harding

“Politics is not just about power and money games, politics can be about the improvement of people's lives, about lessening human suffering…

— Al Franken

“The question of transforming the public into the common thus raises at least three issues initially. The first is an abstract but…

— Michael Hardt

My political career goes back to the '60s and those were times of vigorous debates.

— Dennis Kucinich

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

— Martin L Gross

Everybody in politics lies, but they do it with such ease, it's troubling.

— David Geffen

“The purpose of politics is to keep voters hopeful so they keep on voting”

— Patson Phala

“International Relations are too important to be left to the specialists.”

— Karl W. Deutsch

Be your own politics, grow your own garden, and maybe you can help out more.

— Rip Torn

We will also never bring up the permanent tax cut the president is advocating.

— Tom Daschle

Military action without politics is like a tree without a root.

— Ho Chi Minh

'Stay with Me' started out being very political, largely because I'm a little obsessed with politics.

— Ayobami Adebayo

I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

— Oscar Wilde

Just like a politician's son or daughter joins politics, it happens in our industry, too.

— Vatsal Sheth

A lot of it is backlash against all this political correctness that's going on.

— Collin Peterson

“Electorates tend to get the politicians they deserve.”

— Paul Collier

Tennis is only a sport, and we don't intend to get involved in politics.

— Peng Shuai

We need to show why the government should be funding science and how that funding delivers.

— Mark Walport

“Most movies are stupidity machines—like politicians.”

— Dean Koontz