Politics Quotes · Page 224

In politics, it is better never to have loved at all than to have loved and lost.

— Vikrant Parsai

I was born the son of a lawless man, always spoke my mind with a gun in my hand.

— Christopher Cross

In poltitics you get what you deserve rather than what you want.

— Anonymous

That worst evil of long dictatorships: the loss of all political experience.

— James Cameron

No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.

— A. J. P. Taylor

They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.

— Joseph D. Early

Politics as battle has given way to politics as spectacle.

— Ronald Steel

'Happiness is a Small Politician' - my mantra then and forever more.

— Ralph Steadman

“Thomas Hobbes's politics are fitted only to promote tyranny, and his ethics to encourage licentiousness.”

— David Hume

Party politics must be transcended to resolve pressing issues like agrarian matters or other similar issues.

— Sharad Pawar

Good and decent people must be protected and persuaded by gentle means, but the rabble must be led by terror.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Whatever your political convictions, speeches in years gone by from Margaret Thatcher to Neil Kinnock remain utterly unforgettable.

— Cathy Newman

I used to believe the government was the answer to all our problems. But the . . .government, I've concluded, is now…

— Chet Huntley

The politics, policies, the President [Barack Obama] and the American people are all pointing in the right direction to fix our immigration…

— Luis Gutierrez

I'm not interested to change about the government. I'm interested to change the conditions for the people. So, yes, I talk a…

— Matteo Renzi

The politics of crime is not about a party's record or a candidates proposals, but about perceived character and values.

— Susan Estrich

“Destroying the joint means building a new system in which it is not OK to allow people to be marginalised, exploited and…

— Christine Milne

I am persuaded, from all the facts that have come to me, that it would have been possible, if we had functioned…

— J. Reuben Clark

In North America, people get a sense that something is really wrong in government and in our culture. There is a corruption,…

— Jennifer Beals

“How do politicians cope with the challenges of predicting or manipulating the future, given that we can have only partial knowledge of…

— Marcus du Sautoy

For all its considerable merits and inspirational principles, the American system is based upon a continuous uninterrupted process of election campaigns, stretching…

— Queen Noor of Jordan

I grew up at a time where I think most people had a social and political conscience. Some of the biggest changes…

— George Clooney

“Political editors were a truculent breed. Leggett’s boss, William Cullen Bryant, took a cowskin whip to William Leete Stone of the Commercial…

— Mike Wallace

There is the work of great men and there is the work of little men. Therefore it is said, 'Some labor with…

— Mencius

Explosion without an objective', declared Miles Blundell, 'is politics in its purest form'.

— Thomas Pynchon

Politics is a big no-no for me. I'm not a person who can go through that journey in life.

— Prosenjit Chatterjee

Politics has friendship, enmity, intrigue and even humour.

— Akshaye Khanna

The only future Barack Obama is trying to win is his own reelection.

— Sarah Palin

“Speaking as a Christian, I find the Apostle Paul appealing and the apostle Peale appalling.”

— Adlai Stevenson

Force is the law of animals, men are ruled by conviction.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I've had close chances of success, and sometimes politics and people don't work out.

— Jeff Gutt

I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.

— Anonymous

Democracy is a very admirable form of government - for dogs

— Edgar Allan Poe

Our domestic affections are the most salutary basis of all good government.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Probably being in politics is the worst place for me to be.

— Jacinda Ardern

They don't respect us, so let's surprise them, we'll drop the big one, pulverize them.

— Randy Newman

The politicians say 'we' can't afford a tax cut. Maybe we can't afford the politicians.

— Steve Forbes

Gridlock is great. My motto is, 'Don't just do something. Stand there.'

— William Safire

You have the God-given right to kick the government around - don't hesitate to do so.

— Anonymous

I always saw politics as an expansion of my role as a mom.

— Nancy Pelosi