Politics Quotes · Page 226

“I"d done more apologizing in the past week than a politician with a crack pipe and a sex addiction.”

— Kristin Walker

Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit he was a first-rate political economist.

— George Bernard Shaw

In Parliament we debate on and we decide the laws that are going to govern the country.

— Diane Abbott

I'm not from the arts, I'm a law professor. But I think we need more poetry in politics.

— Zephyr Teachout

The difference between golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie.

— George Deukmejian

The question isn't whether we 'need' guns. It's wether the government should have a monopoly on force

— Ann Coulter

“To make no decision in regard to the growth of authoritarian government is already a decision for it.”

— Francis August Schaeffer

I'm a comedian. You have to understand that my brain doesn't work like a politician's brain.

— Beppe Grillo

If it hadn't been for Senator Sanders, I don't know if I would've been brought back into the fold of politics.

— Nicholas Gonzalez

The internet brought many laudable things, but prosperity, stability, accountability and honest politics were not four of them.

— Bruce Sterling

When I ran for governor in 2016, we shook up the political establishment - then cut more than a billion dollars in…

— Doug Burgum

All good government must begin at home. It is useless to make good laws for bad people; what is wanted is this,…

— Hugh Reginald Haweis

I'm so happy about Biden. I love a boring president. It's such a relief. You just have so much more confidence in…

— John Fetterman

I hope to make clear that involvement in small scale community work can make a difference in our city's politics.

— Joshua Wong

In a country like Pakistan where is politics is often an art form of the elite, and it's often very dynastic, it's…

— Fatima Bhutto

The big tech companies understood that the government had not only damaged American principles, it had hurt their businesses.

— Edward Snowden

Our government, National and State, must be freed from the sinister influence or control of special interests. Exactly as the special interests…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Politics is a dirty business, a ruse, an ideological cul-de-sac, a vast looter of intellectual and financial resources, a lie that corrupts,…

— Jeffrey Tucker

“The most dangerous people in the world are not the tiny minority instigating evil acts, but those who do the acts for…

— Suzy Kassem

And were in the middle of a perfect storm. These days, government social services are being bad-mouthed and defunded. The non-profit world…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the…

— Leland Stanford

I have done political things, I couldn't care less about politics. I have zero interest in politics, really. They don't allure me.…

— Rick Warren

There is a very uneasy relationship between money and creativity, between money and almost everything. Its tendency to control and corrupt -…

— Bennett Miller

Bureaucrats want you to think that the system is too complex because they want you to be stupid about it and uninterested…

— Dana Loesch

The US has a vital interest in that area of the country.

— Dan Quayle

Because of my political views, I've been targeted as a lightning rod, someone who's too far out there.

— John Turner

The strongest continuous thread in America's political tradition is skepticism about government.

— George Will

I love Canada. I am from Canada. I will bash the Canadian government but never Canada.

— Jason Priestley

Champions of Liberty get called Fascists by Champions of Statism

— Jonah Goldberg

It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind.

— Mike Norton

“Policy may involve politics but, principle is principal.”

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

“The loudest of doomsayers, so often, carry the weightiest of sin.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

I won't raise taxes, because I do not want to punish the people for the politicians' mistakes.

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.

— Rachel Kushner

I would vote for you for President but I'm against big government.

— Jeff Ross

I came into office to do what was correct, not to see what was politically expedient to get re-elected.

— Luis Fortuno

The hope is there. The sun is rising. Our best days are yet to come.

— Anonymous

Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands and perpetuate its institutions.

— William Godwin

I may have my personal political thing, but we never wanted it to stain the show.

— Matt Stone

The government in Russia does not tell me what to do with my assets.

— Mikhail Prokhorov