Politics Quotes · Page 212

“Men seeking power only acknowledged fact insofar as it supported their ambitions.”

— Curtis Craddock

The one constant in politics is change and things that are happening today are not happening tomorrow.

— Francis X. Suarez

I feel pretty disillusioned about the politics and politicians in this country - and angry.

— Lesley Sharp

I dont usually make political comments, because I am a businessman, not a politician.

— John Gokongwei

Virginians are counting on us to put politics aside and deliver for them.

— Glenn Youngkin

Its sad that governments are chiefed by the double tongues.

— Ten Bears

It is often said by reformers that government should be conducted upon business principles.

— John Buchanan Robinson

A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents.

— Richard Reeves

International politics attracts politicians who talk a good game, but whose achievements are often slender.

— Gavin Esler

The Umbrella Movement can be described as an encyclopedia. Politicians and student leaders wrote it, and let the masses read it and…

— Joshua Wong

Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.

— Ludwig von Mises

“I also believe that the one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is…

— Walter Bagehot

“Governments are committed to preserving the myth of their monopoly on violence. Violence belongs to everyone.”

— Bryant McGill

The Bolivian government has promised to guarantee autonomy in the framework of unity, legality, and with the goal of equalizing the different…

— Evo Morales

“As most of us know, both the left and the right of the political spectrum is controlled by the same people”

— John Coleman

Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments. This is both historically and logically true. Of course the government can help…

— Calvin Coolidge

Today’s milestone is human madness. Politics is a part of it, particularly in its lethal outbursts. Politics is not, as it was…

— Julia Kristeva

I haven't come to the conclusion that centrist politics is wrong or dead. On the contrary. I think it's very much alive…

— Tony Blair

They that are discontented under monarchy, call it tyranny; and they that are displeased with aristocracy, call it oligarchy: so also, they…

— Thomas Hobbes

Absent geopolitical crises, the role of government policy isn't as big as people think in the short run. In the immediate term,…

— Austan Goolsbee

We just simply want to get back to basics, get - restore essentially the constitutional foundation of the country, and that means…

— Joe Miller

The objective I propose is quite simple to state: to foster the infrastructure of democracy - the system of a free press,…

— Ronald Reagan

The question about who God is is a very public question. We don't have the tools in this kind of political atmosphere…

— Francis George

“But we forget that government was also created to act and make decisions.”

— Francis Fukuyama

I am friendly to all political parties. So, I am able to do my social work freely without any hassles.

— Vivek

The politician's prayer is: May my words be ever soft and low, for I may have to eat them.

— Norman Lamont

Politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't.

— George Carlin

That's the tragedy of our country. Everyone is an inexperienced politician.

— Ksenia Sobchak

What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts.

— Joan D. Vinge

In politics, your enemies cant hurt you, but your friends will kill you.

— Azgraybebly Joslan

If I was a politician right now I would change just about everything.

— David Coverdale

I'm into politics, and I love watching the heavier news magazine shows.

— Chelsea Handler

I always believed in burning up the government's political capital, not being Mr Safe Guy, you know?

— Paul Keating

The intersection of religion and world politics has often been a bloody crossroads.

— Elliott Abrams

I generally think that Hillary Clinton is a good egg and a good politician.

— Joss Whedon

Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment.

— George Bernard Shaw

A great writer is, so to speak, a secret government in his country

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Political sensitivity is as rare as footprints on quicksand.”

— Stewart Stafford

“Why don't more politicians list democracy as a belief?”

— David Akadjian