Politics Quotes · Page 220

I think the political class, just overall, has underestimated the suffering in America.

— Nina Turner

“merged all forms of political spending—campaign, lobbying, and philanthropic—”

— Jane Mayer

“There are no beautiful houses in England now. Only ruins, mental homes, and Government offices.”

— Robert Aickman

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

— A. J. Liebling

The death penalty in the U.S. has become a political tool - and it should never be that.

— Lennie James

When you start attacking cronyism and peoples political interests, it gets nasty.

— Charles Koch

Politicians promise you heaven before election and give you hell after

— Emma Goldman

I am not a politician. I am just a simple person who has come to break down this system.

— Volodymyr Zelensky

Seattle is a liberal city, its politics not so much blue (in the American, not the British, sense) as deep ultramarine, and…

— Jonathan Raban

We have no government and no laws, if by law is meant a stereotyped convention supported by force, and not to be…

— Olaf Stapledon

The exercise of authority is odious, and they who know how to govern, leave it in abeyance as much as possible.

— John Lancaster Spalding

Voting is completely important. People in America think democracy is a given. I think of it as an ecosystem, and what gets…

— Henry Rollins

Decisions about whether industries or companies should be publicly or privately owned are for the governments of developing countries to make; but…

— Hilary Benn

The government of China has admitted that they've been involved in cyber infiltrations around the world and in governments.

— Andrew Scheer

The state of Israel, and a government under me, will make it a strategic objective to topple the Hamas regime in Gaza.…

— Tzipi Livni

God, Private Enterprise and government have made me what I am, and now they have to take some of the blame.

— Joy Baluch

[The] government has room to scale back individual rights during wartime without violating the Constitution. The Constitution just sets minimums. Most of…

— Antonin Scalia

“In all times and in all places, whatever may be the name that the government takes, whatever has been its origin, or…

— Errico Malatesta

And, as a consequence of the pressure that we've applied over the last couple of weeks, we have Syria -- for the…

— Barack Obama

Anarchism is a definite intellectual current in the life of our times, whose adherents advocate the abolition of economic monopolies and of…

— Rudolf Rocker

In World War II, the government went to the private sector. The government asked the private sector for help in doing things…

— Carly Fiorina

For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom, the right to freely express opinion and…

— Olof Palme

My mother saw nothing inconsistent in her traditional desire to look after her husband and children and her radical politics. She began…

— Ezekiel Emanuel

I certainly enjoy going on stage and lecturing and talking to Congress. That's a personality explanation. And given government proposals, I thought…

— Whitfield Diffie

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

— Plato

“Life becomes more beautiful when you live as if politics and religion don't exist.”

— Raigon Stanley

We're so politically correct; we take things so seriously.

— Bernie Mac

Millions of people feel ignored by the political establishment.

— John McDonnell

My involvement in politics was always to be the prankster and show the silliness of the situation.

— Vermin Supreme

An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern.

— Tony Benn

The U.S. government has a problem with dead people. For one thing, it pays them way too much money.

— David Fahrenthold

Political power means the capacity to regulate national life through national representatives.

— Mahatma Gandhi

That's the trouble with a politician's life-somebody is always interrupting it with an election.

— Will Rogers

“Politics of abundance, by contrast, arise from an ethic of measured restraint.”

— Mary Christina Wood

I didn't say a bad thing about 'Politico' in my book.

— David Brock

In government as well as in trade a new era came to the colonies in 1763.

— Albert Bushnell Hart

Anarchy [is] necessarily consequent to inefficiency.

— Thomas Jefferson

There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.

— Bernard Crick

Twenty million people are starving. Whatever their politics, they shall be fed!

— Herbert Hoover

Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.

— Elizabeth I