Politics Quotes · Page 239

It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.

— Michel de Montaigne

The Blair government has lowered the standing of politics and politicians in our country.

— Kenneth Clarke

The government plans to bring in a new science, technology and innovation policy in 2013.

— Vayalar Ravi

Poetry was the maiden I loved, but politics was the harridan I married.

— Joseph Howe

Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext.

— William Hurrell Mallock

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

— George Bernard Shaw

I used to talk politics with my father all the time before he passed away.

— Jessica Tarlov

“What is a government but an institutionalized method of making sure somebody else does all the work?”

— Brandon Sanderson

“And if you couldn't trust the government, who could you trust? Very nearly everyone, come to think of it...”

— Terry Pratchett

“Below the roads run the surveyors' lines which squared off the wilderness, and not only made it ready for sale but constructed…

— Andro Linklater

We insist that ours is a government of laws, not men, but it is striking how often large historical forces pivot on…

— Michael Beschloss

I've owned a business for 26 years. My family isn't in politics and my supporters aren't special interest groups in Madison and Milwaukee.

— Mark Neumann

“Not every poor or unemployed person who has one wears a political party’s t-shirt to reveal their political affiliation; some use it…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I strongly believe in political activity that has to do with choices - and not consensus that sometimes covers problems and doesn't…

— Edi Rama

I did it for political, moral reasons, thinking that I was making this great sacrifice, but it was absolutely necessary; I was…

— Alicia Silverstone

“In the late 1990s, the conservative gadfly Roger Stone began to observe, not disapprovingly, that popular culture had become more influential than…

— Jeff Flake

“The media have indeed informed the public about threats to our air, water and food. Ever since 1962, when Rachel Carson published…

— David Suzuki

Whether people are in America or in Africa, people want to work. They want to have purpose. They want to provide for…

— Scarlett Johansson

The government, once it takes power, nobody takes that away. If it's gained freely, it will be taken back in blood. That's…

— Beneil Dariush

I realize it's about the artists and about the fans. Those are the people who truly have the power. It's like politics,…

— David Banner

As a state, as a government, in 2001 we proposed to the United Nations to empty or to get rid of every…

— Bashar al-Assad

Chicago is the largest city in the country without mayoral term limits. This has led to entrenched leaders, a lack of new…

— Lori Lightfoot

“Well, then he would be at war with the government, and death was an unfortunate side effect of any revolution. Change always…

— C.J. Hill

And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government.…

— Wole Soyinka

I think that so far the political and economic power of the fossil fuel industry has trumped all else.

— Bill McKibben

And they can rip ma heart out but still that wont change the dumb ways of nigeria's political game

— Majid Lawal

Government can wreck a business by confiscating its money by taxation.

— Owen Paterson

I don't know anything about politics or lobbying in the film world.

— M. Jayachandran

Dictators free themselves by enslaving others. They work not for your benefit, but their own.

— Charlie Chaplin

Some coaches keep quiet about politics to avoid alienating boosters and other higher-ups.

— Steve Kornacki

Whatever party you're in in America, our troops deserve the full support of our government.

— George W. Bush

Apathy is the slow poison coursing through the body politic that paves the way to tyranny.

— Laurence Overmire

Politicians live in little worlds of their own and imagine they are the universe.

— Michael Foot

I have no hesitation in challenging government of whatever party.

— Dido Harding

I've learned much more about politics than I thought I ever would.

— Alicia Garza

When politicians presume to do God's work, they do not become divine but diabolical.

— Pope Benedict XVI

The government is neither a monolith nor simply the public interest personified.

— Thomas Sowell

You can register a political objection in a number of ways.

— Nicholson Baker

I have some very personal feelings about politics, but I don't get into it because I do comedy already.

— Jerry Lewis

“Many politicians and advocates say they want to help people, they do, themselves.”

— C.A.A. Savastano