Politics Quotes · Page 222

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

— Paddy Ashdown

Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.

— Oscar Wilde

When foreign governments hold Americans they always claim it's a criminal case.

— Robert C. O'Brien

“Not slaves,” said Halyard, chuckling patronizingly. “Citizens, employed by government.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.

— Benjamin Franklin

Government lawyers have a duty to disclose evidence of wrongdoing in the government.

— Ken Starr

We have had government funding for new media since the early '80s.

— Francesca Da Rimini

Government school education across India is in shambles.

— Atishi

Government has to be cut back like asparagus... every day... or it gets away and goes to seed. Ours did. When there's…

— Paul Harvey

Now, with Covid, I've realized that the entirety of government can be virtual. You can get to a point where you never…

— Francis X. Suarez

As both a First Amendment absolutist and as an American, I want to keep our government as far away from our press…

— Kat Timpf

When the U.S. government is serious about doing something that's complicated and difficult, it can do it.

— Charles Ferguson

I would also point out that many governments that chose not to support this war - certainly, the French president, Jacques Chirac,…

— David Kay

Since the business of politics is the conciliation of differing interests, justice must not merely be done, but to be seen to…

— Bernard Crick

No idea holds greater sway in the minds of educated Americans that the belief that it is possible to democratize governments anytime…

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

Scientific discovery requires sustained funding for decades, and politicians can destroy it in a single budget cycle.

— Bill Foster

The theory of government I was taught says that government provides benefits, primarily security, to the entire population. In return we pay…

— John Stossel

The different political systems, religions and social habits demonstrate that the same brain can be tuned in different manners. But the tuning…

— Rodolfo Llinas

The unprecedented success of Keynesianism is due to the fact that it provides an apparent justification for the 'deficit spending' policies of…

— Ludwig von Mises

“Globally, 1 in every 122 humans is now either a refugee, internally displaced, or seeking asylum. If this were the population of…

— Thomas L Friedman

The Egba kingdom was one of the very last to be ceded to the British protectorate. It remained almost an independent entity…

— Wole Soyinka

“[John] Adams saw clearly that politics is the indispensable foundation for things elegant and beautiful. First and above all else, you must…

— Charles Krauthammer

Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless, by human interposition, disarmed…

— Thomas Jefferson

Michael Moore simultaneously represents everything I detest in a human being and everything I feel obligated to defend in an American. Quite…

— Dennis Miller

We believe in only the government we need, but we insist on all the government we need.

— Mario Cuomo

You can't get something for nothing. Everybody remembers this except politicians.

— P. J. O'Rourke

To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.

— Irene Peter

The more the government has centralised, the less houses we have built.

— Grant Shapps

I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.

— Barbara Kingsolver

I do not accept the right of big powers to change governments as and when it affects their interests.

— Tariq Ali

My dreams of NHL glory were never fulfilled so I had to settle for politics instead.

— Pierre Poilievre

Ceremonies are the first thing to be attended to in the practice of government.

— Confucius

Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.

— Barbara Mertz

Americans acknowledge that liberty is a gift of God, not an indulgence of government.

— Mitt Romney

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

— Henry Adams

Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.

— Langston Hughes

[Donald Trump] hedging his bets because he's used to buying politicians.

— Marco Rubio

People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.

— Anonymous

“Someone needs to put a muzzle on President Trump sooner rather than later.”

— Steven Magee

“Your right of religious freedom ends where my right of religious abstinence begins...”

— T. Rafael Cimino