Politics Quotes · Page 199

The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens.

— Arlen Specter

No economic, political or military power can compare with the power of a change of mind

— Willis Harman

I'm always rooting for everybody black, but I hate talking about politics.

— Myha'la

I believe the states can best govern our home concerns and the federal government our foreign ones.

— Thomas Jefferson

Democracy is not a fragile flower; still it needs cultivating.

— Ronald Reagan

It [Socialism] was a kind of political hockey played by big, gaunt, dyspeptic girls in pants.

— Mary McCarthy

There is only one way to eat an elephant, a bite at a time.

— Desmond Tutu

A president from a partner nation should not make comments on Italian politics.

— Anibal Cavaco Silva

“In other words, Kant is assuming that since voters are generally reasonable people, they will vote for reasonable governments that will act…

— Mencius Moldbug

To run an effective political party you need a degree of tribalism, it's the glue that holds everyone together.

— Charles Kennedy

We can not continue to allow this over reliance on government to replace the cornerstone institution that has made the American experience…

— Marco Rubio

The law is not abstract, impartially arbitrating between conflicting social classes; it is a tool in the hands of those who govern.

— Josephine Herbst

There still is a war on women in terms of politicians in Washington and the state legislatures trying to eliminate any rights…

— Gloria Allred

The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you…

— Chinua Achebe

I entered beauty pageants in much the same spirit most people enter politics - with high ideals and ambitions. Similarly, I had…

— Elizabeth Ray

My father was a Republican and my mother was a Democrat. In Michigan, we always fought about sports, not politics.

— Elissa Slotkin

“Political analysts and reporters who skimmed the surface only saw Dr Singh as ‘Sonia’s puppet’. Those who had a deeper knowledge of…

— Sanjaya Baru

Any contemporary political re-statement of liberal and socialist goals must include as central the idea of a society in which all men…

— C. Wright Mills

“When the church aligns itself politically, it gives priority to the compromises and temporal successes of the political world rather than its…

— Charles W. Colson

He [Reagan] likes to tell jokes and that's why he told the ethnic joke that got him into some trouble. Perhaps if…

— Robert Scheer

“Men still rule this world and as a result the world is broken. Men still hold most positions of power, men control…

— Alice Feeney

“Populists voters are people who genuinely believe in democracy. They believe that the way Washington works is that the people elect a…

— Mencius Moldbug

Of our political revolution of '76, we all are justly proud. It has given us a degree of political freedom, far exceeding…

— Abraham Lincoln

“Fourth, Tobias is a POLITICIAN?!?!?!? Four, the dauntless legend is a politician. Lame. Lastly, that's it? Tris dies, Tobias doesn't get a…

— Amazon Reviewer

Politics and church are the same. They keep the people in ignorance.

— Bob Marley

At its grandest, political correctness is an attempt to accelerate evolution.

— Martin Amis

The greatest power is not money power, but political power.

— Walter Annenberg

I was not born into a rich family or a family of government officials.

— Chen Guangbiao

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.

— Otto Von Bismarck

It is a dangerous notion that we need a government to protect us from ourselves.

— Ron Paul

A lot of people have been asking whether I would ever go into politics. I'm not sure I would.

— Richard Sherman

People are frustrated. They're fed up. They don't think the government is working for them.

— John Kasich

“Truth becomes a relative and disputable term in the alternate reality of partisan politics”

— Michael Rejebian

I cannot allow state government to continue to be consumed by this game of political 'gotcha.'

— Ernie Fletcher

The oldest, wisest politician grows not more human so, but is merely a gray wharf rat at last.

— Henry David Thoreau

Conservative politics is truly transcending age, race, gender.

— Anna Paulina Luna

Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous consciousness of honor.

— Thomas Paine

As a political artist, I think you have to learn how to create art, no matter what your ideology is.

— Amiri Baraka

There is a crisis of leadership and governance in Africa, and we must face it.

— Mo Ibrahim