Politics Quotes · Page 198

Policy and politics generally go contrary to principle.

— Flannery O'Connor

I want to show you an optimistic sign that things are beginning to turn around.

— Dan Quayle

“I don't do 'black music,' I don't do 'white music'...I make fight music, for high school kids.”

— Eminem

The AAP was not the first group of well-meaning outsiders in politics.

— Abhijit Banerjee

Every citizen, scientists included, has some obligation to be involved in public affairs and politics.

— Rush D. Holt, Jr

Every film is a political act; it's how you see the world.

— Mira Nair

“Birthdays are like politicians. I don’t like any of them, but they still keep coming around.”

— Jarod Kintz

“I do not waste my time interacting with corrupt government agencies.”

— Steven Magee

There's something to be said for CEOs' entering politics: In theory, they have management expertise and financial savvy. Then again, it didn't…

— Nicholas Kristof

My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown…

— Grover Norquist

It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free.

— Thomas Clarkson

The United States has become great because we, as a people, have been able to work together for great objectives even while…

— Harry S. Truman

ON the decline of the Roman power, about five centuries after Christ, the countries of Northern Europe were left almost destitute of…

— Thomas Bulfinch

I am extremely proud of my service with the government and my efforts to help safeguard public health and protect our country…

— Steven Hatfill

you can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces.

— John Kennedy Toole

A lot of people are in politics to make friends, too, instead of making positive change. Theyre worried about getting re-elected.

— Jon Runyan

The kinds of people you meet on political campaigns are some of the best human beings. They're survivors, and they're spunky, and…

— Jen Psaki

If you take a child from South Africa and you put them in Boston, they're going to speak with a Boston accent.…

— Michel Gondry

“The systematic looting of language can be recognized by the tendency of its users to forgo its nuanced, complex, mid-wifery properties for…

— Toni Morrison

The hired journalist, I thought, ought to realize that he is partly in the entertainment business and partly in the advertising business…

— Claud Cockburn

We're looking at the singular condition of poverty. All the other individual problems spring from that condition... doesn't matter if it's death,…

— Bob Geldof

When I was trying to figure out how the government might go about creating the camps in 'The Darkest Minds,' I researched…

— Alexandra Bracken

“The death of awe in our culture has left us with an oddly credulous cynicism. We are cynical, suspicious of established government,…

— Dennis E. Johnson

It took forever for me to get work because I was a political comic, and now it's become good business, and God…

— Lewis Black

For the stability of the Government, the people should have a considerable voice in the elections.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

In political and social analysis, we still have not cut off the head of the king.

— Michel Foucault

Being a conservative on campus is like bing a goat amongst the taliban. You are never safe.

— Greg Gutfeld

Standards of education are not set by government, but by God, the Bible, the home and the school.

— Stockwell Day

I see myself as a former politician, and in that capacity, I say to other politicians, 'Hold back.'

— Reuven Rivlin

Hatred, anger, and violence can destroy us: the politics of polarization is dangerous.

— Rahul Gandhi

The Vichy government was under occupation and carried out the orders of the German occupier.

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.

— John Ruskin

The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.

— Benazir Bhutto

We can seize this future together because we are not as divided as our politics suggests.

— Barack Obama

“Leaders cannot build a successful nation once they are yoked to these two evils, ignorance and greed.”

— Wayne Chirisa

We do believe that the church has a visionary role for reconciliation, beyond that of any government.

— Richard Harris

Regardless of politics, our world will continue to change rapidly.

— Hope Jahren

“We're living in the climate change equivalent in politics”

— a BBC World News journalist

Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

— Edouard Herriot

Freedom to rock, freedom to talk. Freedom, raise your fist and yell.

— Alice Cooper