Politics Quotes · Page 215

I am only concerned with politics so I may see the day when I don't have to be concerned with politics.

— Ayn Rand

Our view is that individuals and families can govern their lives better than bureaucrats.

— Rick Perry

I feel like the government is more evil than most corporations.

— Gavin McInnes

As a political party, the Libertarians have always been more party than political.

— Jacob Weisberg

Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.

— Iris Murdoch

You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.

— Benjamin Disraeli

It's easier to criticize somebody else, than to see yourself.

— George Harrison

It's the height of the Cold War, but I grew up in apolitical family and politics wasn't on the agenda.

— Bill Ayers

I'm fed up with the top-down style of politics, where discussion in our party is stifled because of sectarianism and tribalism.

— Clive Lewis

When a government goes to war, particularly a democracy, it is the most solemn and awesome responsibility of our leaders - to…

— Joe Wilson

There are an awful lot of people who despise government precisely because it opened the door for common citizenship for people of…

— Taylor Branch

When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much…

— Baron de Montesquieu

“It was bad enough to see friendship and love in terms of politics. But seeing it in terms of business was even…

— Elizabeth Eulberg

Being ruled by a depraved poet-king who is sacrified each spring is the worst form of government except all the others that…

— Tim Pratt

The reason that I decided to get into politics is because I have begged, pleaded, and cried for years for our government…

— Paula Jean Swearengin

It's really remarkable when you think about what we don't like about government, we, the people created. So if we created it,…

— Jennifer Pahlka

I don't think 'my way or the highway' works, that mentality. And that's what the Tea Party has done: drawn a line…

— Patrick Murphy

“The question is not whether Lincoln truly meant “government of the people” but what our country has, throughout its history, taken the…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

There are cycles in American politics. US cycles are even more pronounced because we Americans have a totally entrepreneurial presidential system. We…

— Charles Krauthammer

Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics…

— Tatyana Tolstaya

Politics colours everything, and anyone who wants change is necessarily political. As an environmental campaigner more or less since I left school…

— Zac Goldsmith

Even if drugs are fully as destructive as they are usually claimed to be, it is morally wrong and demonstrably more destructive…

— L. Neil Smith

Quite often governments are one way and the people are another. You can't judge the many by the actions of a few.…

— Henry Rollins

For the next century, the Republicans have agreed that we will promote the dignity and future of every individual by building a…

— Todd Tiahrt

If Communism was liberalism in a hurry, liberalism is Communism in slow motion.

— Joseph Sobran

As members of the military, Coast Guardsmen are prohibited from wading into politics.

— Brianna Keilar

I believe that the root cause of every financial crisis, the root cause, is flawed government policies

— Henry Paulson

“The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works”

— Barack Obama

“I can't die until the government finds a safe place to bury my liver”

— Phil Harris

Most arts have produced miracles, while the art of government has produced nothing but monsters.

— Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

“As I have often said, governments don’t produce economic growth, people do.”

— Ronald Reagan

Whoever has an army has power and that war decides everything.

— Mao Zedong

What real job—what political world—would want Spencer Pratt, with the stigma I’ve attached to my name?

— Spencer Pratt

“The captain of a ship can run a great ship, but he can't do anything about the tides.”

— Matthew Norman 2

Political parties in Italy are so stupid and expensive that they deserve to be abolished.

— William C. Brown

Despite the hysteria from the political class and the media, smoking doesn't kill.

— Mike Pence

Regardless of our political stance, we cannot afford to perpetuate the Western car-centric model.

— Jens Martin Skibsted

Nature's Laws are the invisible government of the earth.

— Alfred Armand Montapert

“A job should be given to those who deserve it, not those who demand it.”

— Amit Kalantri

The taxes of government are heavy enough, but not so heavy as the taxes we lay upon ourselves.

— Orville Dewey