Politics Quotes · Page 203

Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

— Aristophanes

When people tap into this politics of resentment, it usually ends ugly.

— John Avlon

Government cannot guarantee much, but it can and should guarantee freedom of opportunity.

— Chris Sununu

Those who have been intoxicated with power... can never willingly abandon it.

— Edmund Burke

The government had to choose between war and shame. They chose shame. They will get war too.

— Winston Churchill

No person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six.

— Thomas Jefferson

In politics, you have to work very hard, and those who do not want to work cannot be here.

— Nagma

Free enterprise makes people prosperous, all people prosperous, and big government makes people poorer.

— Marco Rubio

Benevolent, enlightened, wise dictators are the most efficient form of government. The problem is what comes afterwards.

— Reid Hoffman

Other people can write grown-up, political plays about the troubles in the world. My plays deal with magic and hope.

— Colman Domingo

My father's politics and ideas were, to me, unforgivable. He was a Jewish convert who became very anti-Semitic, and I didn't find…

— Mary Gordon

As a historian, he felt it his duty to respect everything that had ever been respected, except for the occasional statesman.

— Henry Adams

Through the years, I had became involved with social and political issues, such as racial discrimination.

— Sam Wanamaker

The powers of the federal government are enumerated; it can only operate in certain cases; it has legislative powers on defined and…

— James Madison

I have been long a sleeper; but I trust My absence doth neglect no great design Which by my presence might have…

— William Shakespeare

I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

Our system freed the individual genius of man. Released him to fly as high & as far as his own talent &…

— Ronald Reagan

Do not confuse objectives with methods. When the nation becomes substantially united in favor of planning the broad objectives of civilization, then…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

All over the world, independent and strong civil society - NGOs, faith leaders, and other community advocates - help governments solve problems…

— Ben Rhodes

Hence, the less government we have, the better,--the fewer laws, and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formalGovernment,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Macroeconomics is the analysis of the economy as a whole, an examination of overall supply and demand. At the broadest level, macroeconomists…

— Alex Berenson

We saw, then, journalists and researchers being arrested. And so this is sort of the latest expansion they say - cultural targets…

— Leila Fadel

It's being reported that Google spent over $5 million on lobbying just during the first quarter of this year. You'd think Google…

— Jimmy Fallon

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to…

— H.L. Mencken

Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists.

— Maria Montessori

It's not like we were setting out to make a political statement - we're just a band with opinions.

— Martie Maguire

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

— Charles de Gaulle

“Our politics are overrun with characters acting at the behest of shadows.”

— Charles M. Blow

Governance is a way of organizing, amplifying, and constraining power.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

My own feeling is that a corporation has no right to have a political or social influence.

— Noam Chomsky

Every citizen has to figure out what kind of government he or she wants.

— Stephen Breyer

If the world was without politicians, how would we survive without the chaos they create?

— Frederick A Babb

“Having old friends is the politics of last resort.”

— Timothy Snyder

The uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality.

— Victoria Woodhull

I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.

— Ronald Reagan

All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.

— August Wilson

The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.

— Sallust

My guide is the Modi government at the Centre. It's my inspiration. I will follow that.

— Yogi Adityanath

The only quality needed for an MP is the ability to write a good letter.

— Harold MacMillan

No one branch of the U.S. government should have supremacy over the other two.

— Chellie Pingree