Politics Quotes · Page 216

“A single man is minority, a leader is the majority.”

— Amit Kalantri

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I don't care about the politics, I don't care about the practicality, I don't care about any of it.

— Clancy Martin

I am confident that Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana will open the doors of good politics.

— Narendra Modi

“If you lead, we'll be behind you," one House leader said, "but we'll be way behind you.”

— George W. Bush

We're not a political band, we're a socially-minded band.

— Chester Bennington

I'm much more upset about Breaking Bad's shutdown than about the government's.

— Anonymous

Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.

— Jeremy Bentham

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even…

— William O. Douglas

The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth…

— Dixie Lee Ray

We can't have these great corporations crowding competition off the sidewalks. It's like an elephant saying, "Everyone for himself," as he dances…

— Emanuel Celler

Travelers learn not just foreign customs and curious cuisines and unfamiliar beliefs and novel forms of government. They learn, if they are…

— Paul Fussell

I do like to make films with a political theme, but sometimes it's nice simply to make people laugh. That's the hardest…

— Ridley Scott

Income splitting is a cynical policy, designed by a tired government short on ideas, now reheating old concoctions as their next campaign…

— Justin Trudeau

Basically when you're running a nonprofit that works closely with the government, there's always room for error.

— Mark Robinson

Politics has become a game of meaningless, mindless battles, conducted by unscrupulous methods and people, designed to transform even the most serious…

— Al Gore

“The Mexicans had fired the first shot. But they had done what the American government wanted, according to Colonel Hitchcock, who wrote…

— Howard Zinn

What are the policy implications of the government and this fantasy Islam, what are the policy implications of a United States government…

— Rush Limbaugh

Nothing whatever but the constitutional law, the political structure, of these United States protects any American from arbitrary seizure of his property…

— Rose Wilder Lane

The real challenge is figuring out how the United States can regain control of its future from its new oligarchy and restore…

— Charles Ferguson

Government usually doesn't work. It doesn't work because it is political. People who are wise, good, smart, skillful, or hardworking don't need…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Anarchy is... a form of government or constitution in which public and private consciousness, formed through the development of science and law,…

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

“Thought Leadership “The new economics for industry, government, education” Book by W. Edwards Deming “In God we trust. All others must bring…

— W. Edwards Deming

As a musician, I feel quite powerless when it comes to anything to do with climate change, politics, and world issues. When…

— Raye

Experience counts in government even more than in business.

— Mo Ibrahim

The more power government has to provide things, the more power it has to dictate terms.

— Sheldon Richman

My fidelity is to my country, not my political party. Country first.

— Steve Schmidt

Eternal life should be sought elsewhere, perhaps in the religious community, not politics.

— Matt Salmon

When the government gets involved in pricing, I don't think it's the right way to look at a business.

— Jamie Dimon

Politicians must let voters know what they think about issues before the election. Judges should not.

— Jon Kyl

I think, as ever, with a big change like Brexit, it's awakened people's interest in politics.

— Andrea Leadsom

When you start attacking cronyism and people's political interests, it gets nasty.

— Charles Koch

I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.

— Sam Wyly

What we have in the United States is not so much a health-care system as a disease-care system.

— Edward Kennedy

I want healthy politics, I do not wish to cry anymore in politics.

— Jaya Prada

The current political tension is very serious. We have not yet ruled out a boycott of the election.

— Abhisit Vejjajiva

Public trust in both government and corporations is low, and deservedly so.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

Political dictatorships take possession not just of money and belongings but of narrative.

— Hisham Matar

The invisible hand in politics operates in the opposite direction to the invisible hand in the market.

— Milton Friedman

“David Vitter is a perfect case-study to demonstrate that Louisiana voters lack brains.”

— Michel Templet