Politics Quotes · Page 197

I don't think that politics are as complex as people like to make them seem or out to be.

— Lupe Fiasco

Good politicians need not be intellectuals, but they should have intellectual lives.

— Gary Gutting

I want politicians coming to me and asking me for advice.

— Gilbert Arenas

In my case, there's no revolving door... I won't be going back to government.

— Mary Schapiro

Royalty puts a human face on the operations of government.

— Robert Runcie

There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Alarm bells ring when a politician stands haughty upon his honour.

— Howard Jacobson

I do not look like the normal politician. I don't even look like a normal person.

— John Fetterman

We are under [government's] control, and if people don't realize that, they haven't looked around. And if they're not paranoid, they haven't…

— Merle Haggard

Universal, equal, direct and secret elections in the U.S.S.R. will be a whip in the hands of the population against poorly functioning…

— Joseph Stalin

And let me say this as a politician I can promise you this, political leaders will never take risks if the people…

— Barack Obama

My cartoons haven't been about the politics of the day or about the personalities; I'm more interested in campaigning about the issues.

— Judy Horacek

If you are an [American] politician it's very hard to imagine. "Now we are going to treat these guys as our equals?…

— Hooman Majd

All secret oath-bound political parties are dangerous to any nation, no matter how pure or how patriotic the motives and principles which…

— Ulysses S. Grant

I know other astronauts share my feelings… And we know the government is sitting on hard evidence of UFOs.

— Gordon Cooper

My approach to politics is that I'm not a Democrat or a Republican. I'm an American and I always support candidates I…

— Marc Benioff

Every government is perpetually degenerating towards corruption, from which it must be rescued at certain periods by the resuscitation of its first…

— Samuel Johnson

“The government should either force the population to get healthy, or tax them for not complying. If the people still refuse to…

— Jarod Kintz

“It’s hard to get good answers to why Young Voters are so uninterested in politics. This is probably because it’s next to…

— David Foster Wallace

Any political system can commit mistakes and any state can commit mistakes. What is most important is to acknowledge these mistakes and…

— Hosni Mubarak

“Nothing is truer than the statement shrewdly made in a Hearst paper, that there are just two things that operate decisively upon…

— Joseph Casper Husslein

The question is what will Mitt Romney do as president if his policy is simply to be hands off and let the…

— Jennifer Granholm

If you make an authentic political film, which talks of real people and real events, in a politically conscious country like India,…

— Akshaye Khanna

It's usually pointed out that women are not fit for political power, and ought not to be trusted with a vote because…

— George Bernard Shaw

Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.

— Baron de Montesquieu

I'm not a critic, I'm a journalist. I'm doing my job holding the government to account.

— Maria Ressa

All through my life, I have never disguised my sentiments about politics in general.

— Walter Cronkite

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

— Edmund Burke

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I firmly believe that the benevolent Creator designed the republican Form of Government for Man.

— Samuel Adams

“Divide and rule, weaken and conquer, love and enslave, these are three tenets of politics”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

I'm a big believer that we get the politicians we deserve.

— Fergus Henderson

“Politics is war without blood, while war is politics with blood.”

— Mao Tse-tung

“The challenge has always been that "good people" don't know how to win elections”

— Fela Durotoye

My sentimental problems, my private life, should not be involved in sports and politics.

— Peng Shuai

Leftist governments work together to try to sabotage those who are not like them.

— Javier Milei

There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.

— Emma Goldman

The basis of effective government is public confidence.

— John F. Kennedy

Governments steal from citizens through taxes and through the subterfuge of monetizing their own IOUs.

— John Pugsley

I'm on a mission to restore trust in our government and to build a system that works for the people.

— Dean Phillips