Politics Quotes · Page 200

It's not, 'We have a city to bid, now let's go check in with the federal government'.

— Peter Ueberroth

“Truth can only be found in a person's record of actions, not their list of intentions.”

— Suzy Kassem

I don't like the notion that artists have a responsibility to be political.

— Ezra Furman

For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.

— Andrew Young

Many who think they are workers in politics are really merely tools.

— Lord Salisbury

We can't have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.

— William Howard Taft

Getting [cruise missiles] more accurate so that we can have precise precision.

— Dan Quayle

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

— Anonymous

Every person seems to acknowledge his greatness. He blends together the profound politician with the scholar.

— William Pierce

A government of fighters won't know how to lead, only create more war. You think bravery is measured in resistance.

— Maaza Mengiste

Politics is so much about serendipity that we've got to have a bigger pool of women, so that when people drop out…

— Eleanor Clift

“Two things which are the peculiar domain of the heart, not the mind—politics and religion. He doesn’t want to know the other…

— Mark Twain

“General assumptions often lead to erroneous conclusions, but one cannot go far wrong in always assuming that whatever one's government is saying…

— Michel Templet

There is a crisis that is not political - an epidemic of loneliness, of sadness - and we're completely unequal to dealing…

— Richard Flanagan

What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians.

— Bill Delahunt

Obviously the federal government has the ability and the right to have their currency and to create the kind of policy that…

— Francis X. Suarez

The United States being a limited form of government, one of the restrictions to which it is subject is in regard to…

— Samuel Freeman Miller

Western companies (and governments) have deeply integrated themselves with an authoritarian regime without thinking through the consequences, and when push comes to…

— Zeynep Tufekci

Throughout my 20s and early 30s, I had jobs that I loved. I worked in city government. I ran a youth organization.…

— Michelle Obama

The razor-sharp line of division that exists between political ideologies in our own country in the United States, I think it's clear…

— Zachary Quinto

When Americans decry our politicians, we must remember that ultimately, politicians reflect us. When we demand more than mediocrity - and the…

— James M Strock

With intent to neither idolize nor demonize the man [Barack Obama], it seems fair and evident enough to say that the current…

— Aberjhani

“Property taxes' rank right up there with 'income taxes' in terms of immorality and destructiveness. Where 'income taxes' are simply slavery using…

— Larken Rose

The Viennese wash everything. Where else in the world does the government hire public servants to wash public telephone booths and the…

— Jonathan Carroll

Every head of state and government in the world is allowed to have his opinion and to voice it.

— Vladimir Putin

We must not look to government to solve our problems. Government is the problem.

— Ronald Reagan

“The greatest government experiment on humans is well underway.”

— Steven Magee

Candidates seeking the highest office in our government deserve the opportunity to be fully heard.

— Harris Faulkner

Breaststroke is an athletic event; butterfly is a political statement.

— Paul Tsongas

I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government.

— Jack Kemp

I believe my political opponents are not my enemies.

— Shatrughan Sinha

I grew up in Ireland, so I do not have a lot of respect for most politicians.

— Jasmine Guinness

I am neither going to Bollywood nor joining politics.

— Mahesh Babu

So I went into government with a clear mind about what the problems were, and what needed to be done.

— Vince Cable

It is absolutely clear that government plays a key role, as a catalyst, in promoting long-run growth.

— Fareed Zakaria

“In the US, the more liberal a city’s politics, the higher the rate of inequality.45”

— Edward Luce

“I am not in favor of having government do anything that private citizens can do as good or better”

— William Howard Taft

Once genius is submerged by bureaucracy, a nation is doomed to mediocrity.

— Richard M. Nixon

It's hard being the king, but somebody's got to do it.

— LL Cool J

“For every moral principle, there’s an equal and opposite government program”

— Erne Lewis