Politics Quotes · Page 196

My father wanted me to go into politics but I ended up on television.

— Conchata Ferrell

Well, I'm not that popular with the politicians, I have to say.

— Jose Padilha

My liberal friends are such a bunch soft-headed, politically correct jerks.

— Jack Germond

Our government shouldn't tell us where to travel and where not to travel.

— Jeff Flake

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

— Albert Einstein

“For the Right, strikes are both devilish and pathetic, have both terrible and absolutely no effects.”

— China Miéville

Business is business and politics is politics and never between shall meet.

— Suzy Welch

We must not be misled by the claim that the source of all wisdom is in the government.

— Herbert Hoover

Saying 'I am not interested in politics' is no guarantee that people will leave you alone. The politically-inclined will single you out…

— Ravi Subramanian

My great objective as a parliamentarian was to dramatise the deficiencies and devise practical government programs to deal with them. It was…

— Gough Whitlam

I can describe, and I've always been able to describe, what Republicans stand for in eight words, and the eight words are…

— Byron Dorgan

If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in…

— John F. Kennedy

The public interest requires doing today those things that men of intelligence and good will would wish, five or ten years hence,…

— Edmund Burke

Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

We intend to lead a government of purpose and direction so that we can offer the people of this nation the opportunity…

— Alex Salmond

America's founders knew the importance of allowing the people to speak critically about government actions.

— Mark Meadows

[Ruling elie] haven't given up on neoliberal ideology, they use it. And I think they've normalized that ideology, the notion that, for…

— Henry Giroux

The real transgression occurs when religion wants government to tell citizens how to live uniquely personal parts of their lives. The failure…

— Edward Kennedy

“Dilly, do not ever forget your own people.” My brother came with me to wait for the mail car. He took off…

— Edna O'Brien

I have people that have been studying [Obama's birth certificate] and they cannot believe what they're finding... I would like to have…

— Donald Trump

“What are the future prospects for a country that turns from the economic and political principles that made it the world’s economic…

— John Price

“People were beside themselves with delight over this new faculty, and the jubilation reached its climax when Kant further discovered a moral…

— Anonymous

In medicine, we have invented an entirely new healing paradigm. Now we no longer simply look to the doctor and to medicine…

— Marianne Williamson

“the regional governments can't raise taxes. The source of revenue would simply leave for another region. In fact, the effect of decentralization…

— John Ralston Saul

The cavalries charged and the Indians died, oh the country was young with God on its side.

— Bob Dylan

I have friends in politics who really put the friendship to the test through their behavior.

— Martin Schulz

The best government is the one that charges you the least blackmail for leaving you alone.

— Thomas Rudman-Brown

The ruler attains wholeness in the correct governance of the people.

— Anonymous

Jesus would never use government surrogates to force the people to help others.

— Philip Freneau

What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried

— Abraham Lincoln

In the latter case it is often government that organizes the conquest, and religion that justifies it.

— Jared Diamond

I would summarise my politics very simply as the maverick left and proud.

— Mary Beard

Politics has always been ugly to me, and yet I accept that as a fact of life.

— Billy Graham

The only just government is the government that serves its citizens, not itself.

— Timothy M. Dolan

In our democracy we must have a partnership of labor, of business and of government.

— Charles H. Percy

The response to coronavirus has shown what can be done when governments put their mind to it.

— Caroline Lucas

I've been working with every single government since June 1992 to try to get climate action.

— Elizabeth May

“If you behaved nicely, the communists wouldn't exist.”

— Jenny Holzer

There is enough space for everyone in the Tamil industry and it is free of politics.

— Babu Antony

Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia.

— Paul Wellstone