Politics Quotes · Page 230

Agitation is all about poetry, governance is all about prose.

— Jairam Ramesh

“Corporate governments are as corrupt as their law enforcement departments.”

— Steven Magee

All government is cruel; for nothing is so cruel as impunity.

— George Bernard Shaw

I don't support communism. I don't like that type of government.

— Jesse Ventura

It is not through any combinations of politicians that the outcome of an electoral campaign is decided.

— Dominique de Villepin

Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

The real focus needs to be on political action to stop this runaway train, real soon.

— William H. Calvin

Fairness and justice will be the base of my government.

— Moon Jae-in

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.

— Margaret Thatcher

The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. . . . [A] government resting upon popular suffrage cannot be successful…

— John Dewey

I'm very much a believer that it's action that matters much more so than, you know, the flurry of political promises and…

— Christine Lagarde

We're facing a natural disaster in the middle of an economic disaster. The federal government has to balance its budget the way…

— Nan Hayworth

I think that the more we, as a state, yield and cede decisions to the federal government, the lesser we'll be for…

— Scott Pruitt

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

I believe that the federal government should be laying down broadband like Eisenhower laid down interstates.

— John Hodgman

We're not like the American administration, we're not social media administration or government. We are a government that deals with reality. When…

— Bashar al-Assad

The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has…

— Eric Alterman

I don't think the Constitution is studied almost anywhere, including law schools. In law schools, what they study is what the court…

— Robert Bork

When I visit local communities, people often complain that they need the approval of several dozen government departments to get something done…

— Li Keqiang

Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men…

— Aldous Huxley

“It's all very well to run around saying regulation is bad, get the government off our backs, etc. Of course our lives…

— Molly Ivins

You've got to be fairly solemn [about the environment]. I mean the mere notion that there are three times as many people…

— David Attenborough

I think you will see a lot of strains develop in the political process that will result in violence everywhere in the…

— John Abizaid

I believe that the Constitution is not hostile to the idea that national problems can be solved at the national level through…

— Edward Kennedy

“I am a queen because I know why how to govern myself.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.

— Kenneth Koch

Politics is not a tea party. When it is time to act, you have to move fast and decisively.

— Edward Brooke

There was always the paranoid strain in American politics, particularly on the Right.

— Charlie Sykes

“What we need in politics today is not more democracy but less.”

— Fareed Zakaria

I'm a musical political, I tend to stick to what I see happening outside my front door.

— Sixto Rodriguez

Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.

— John Locke

I have never looked at Bargari as a political issue.

— Amarinder Singh

Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently

— Anonymous

Political correctness is the deadliest of political weaponry.

— Charlie Kirk

I have always liked the Kennedys as politicians. They had such great hair.

— Pamela Anderson

I just want to use my voice and my platform to help people. Whether it be political or therapeutic.

— Cordae

The purpose of government is to reign in the rights of the people.

— Bill Clinton

I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.

— Nancy Reagan

Work is pushing matter around. Politics is pushing people around.

— Thomas Szasz

If you can eliminate the government as a 39.6% partner, then you will be much better off.

— Warren Buffett