Politics Quotes · Page 210

We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government.

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

No society has ever succeeded without a decent government.

— Robert H. Frank

I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.

— Kate Millett

There is a hundred things to single you out for promotion in party politics besides ability.

— Will Rogers

The Russian government imposed my head on the body of Russian models in straight jackets.

— Jen Psaki

Government can do something for the people only in proportion as it can do something to the people.

— Thomas Jefferson

Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.

— Mao Zedong

If you don't believe there's a price for this sweet paradise, just remind me to show you the scars.

— Bob Dylan

A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.

— Bob Woodward

I knew most of my radio listeners were lefty political people, and I decided definitively not to be that guy - not…

— Marc Maron

Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you.

— Mark Twain

If taxes and government spending are both slashed, then the salutary result will be to lower the parasitic burden of government taxes…

— Murray Rothbard

I believe in peace-building in any kind of platform, be it a political platform like Parliament or negotiations like peace-building negotiations.

— Safak Pavey

The history of government regulation of food safety is one of government watchdogs chasing the horse after it's out of the barn.

— David Aaron Kessler

Politicians need to rethink their reflexive invocations of the Second Amendment and the idea that the gun lobby is too powerful to…

— David Ignatius

I have not hesitated to call the system of Government under which we are labouring 'satanic' and I withdraw naught out of…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I do not celebrate the appointment of women to high positions in regimes where cruelty is a favored tool of governance by…

— Mona Eltahawy

“We were being offered exile on condition that we were silent about the reason we needed it. The silence chafed; it made…

— Anna Funder

Of all the cares or concerns of government, the direction of war most peculiarly demands those qualities which distinguish the exercise of…

— Alexander Hamilton

“Struggling for survival and relevance, we as a profession of political journalists and commentators have collectively debased our craft to the lowest…

— Kerry-Anne Walsh

People don't want children to know what they need to know. They want their kids to know what they ought to need…

— Nick Harkaway

“It is not a scientific proposition to determine that some cultures lack political power because they show nothing similar to what is…

— Pierre Clastres

“...to experience a furious disillusionment with ‘conventional’ politics, a bit young to be so cynical and so superior, you may think. My…

— Christopher Hitchens

“constant marking down of her performance is wildly at odds with the reality of the minority government. Despite the government’s wafer-thin margin,…

— Kerry-Anne Walsh

First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?

— Carl Sagan

There's nothing in my background that would have said I was destined to be a senior politician.

— Nicola Sturgeon

People think of me as a political writer, but I don't think of myself that way.

— Luis Alberto Urrea

Politicians attend dinners at hotels with contractors. Bankers discuss interest rates at lunch.

— Jimmy Breslin

Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting.

— Rich Lowry

I'm just not sure I trust the federal government not to trample on civil liberties.

— Tucker Carlson

I have in general no very exalted opinion of the virtue of paper government.

— Edmund Burke

I don't know when I'm going to have time to be politically active.

— Nancy Reagan

How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?

— Miguel de Cervantes

I don't pick on politicians. They ain't done nothin'.

— Red Skelton

“We have had word that some political groups are calling for the forced abdication of Emperor Kaito.”

— Marissa Meyer

As an MP, it is my job to hold the government to account.

— Clive Lewis

I don't know about politics so much. I'm a professional athlete.

— Khabib Nurmagomedov

Many of our advances in science and technology were seeded through government.

— Valerie Jarrett

The government under Manmohan Singh is treating all political partners in a dignified manner.

— Sharad Pawar

Good governance needs self-discipline. Only discipline within can ensure discipline without.

— Narendra Modi