Politics Quotes · Page 237

Lesson from Pataki's success is: Use the political moment.

— Andrew Cuomo

The only way change happens is when people become more significantly involved in the political process.

— Bernie Sanders

The Government is responsible for what is happening to black people in America.

— Malcolm X

I feel about politics the same way I do about religion: I find the best I can from different things.

— Patti Smith

Everyone must act according to the dictates of his own reason.

— Thomas Jefferson

A week is a long time in politics, and three weeks is twice as long.

— Rosie Barnes

I think today you can move ahead working with global companies more than with national governments.

— Shimon Peres

I have a huge political interest. I just wish I had the courage to come into politics in India.

— Shekhar Kapur

I believe we are slowly turning into a socialist government. The government is continually growing bigger and more powerful and the people…

— Timothy McVeigh

Anytime you have a relative in politics, you're going to catch some flack from people, because that's just part of the gig.

— Colter Wall

I think it has sullied his presidency. As brilliant a politician as Bill Clinton is, as magnetic a personality as he can…

— Morley Safer

I was in the Commons recently and saw a young lady wearing a nice pair of shoes. I said I liked them…

— Theresa May

If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.

— Al Yankovic

When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring…

— Pat Boone

“The point is that we have all sorts of assumptions, not only about politics or economics or religion, but also about what…

— David Bohm

There is an indissoluble union between a magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity.

— George Washington

“American capitalism replaced some of the old colonial capitalisms in the countries that began their independent life. But it knows that this…

— Che Guevara

In the United States...politics is purged of all menace, all sinister quality, all genuine significance, and stuffed with such gorgeous humors, such…

— H. L. Mencken

“If the Pentateuch is inspired, the civilization of of our day is a mistake and crime. There should be no political liberty.…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

[T]ax cuts are not just something that all taxpayers deserve, but also the best way to curb government spending. It is the…

— Zell Miller

We have seen that the tendency of republican governments is to an aggrandizement of the legislative at the expense of the other…

— James Madison

As long as judges tinker with the Constitution to 'do what the people want,' instead of what the document actually commands, politicians…

— Antonin Scalia

The ever-growing power of a soulless political bureaucracy which supervises and safeguards the life of man from the cradle to the grave…

— Rudolf Rocker

“A high-flying politician,” Hopkinson wrote, “is I think not unlike a balloon—he is full of inflammability, he is driven along by every…

— Jon Meacham

“English kings married their cousins and so their kids were as sharp as clubs.”

— Peter Prasad

Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.

— Kat Graham

In politics, you have to compromise from morning to evening. Democracy is the art of compromise.

— Reinhold Messner

The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.

— Alan Greenspan

Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.

— William Allen White

We don't ever want to be this political band. We're just a bunch of dudes.

— Matthew Ramsey

Every person in this country is suffering because of bad governance.

— Arvind Kejriwal

In politics, you also have to be cautiously optimistic.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

You deserve better from your entire government, all of us.

— George Tenet

The Constitution poses no threat to our current form of government.

— Joseph Sobran

I think major reorganisation is not something the government's about to do.

— Theresa May

I want my pictures to cut through political abstractions... and make a connection on a human level.

— James Nachtwey

We shouldn't assume that government is always trying to do the wrong thing.

— Barack Obama

There is no safe political refuge for those afraid to take responsibility for their own lives.

— James Bovard

If we all did as Jesus did when he helped the poor, we wouldn't need the government.

— Jerry Falwell, Jr

I'm not your average politician. I believe in higher forces.

— Fela Kuti