Politics Quotes · Page 241

Hating politics was like hating the weather. Pointless, since both were inevitable.

— Eileen Wilks

If politics is the art of the possible, theatre is the art of the impossible.

— Herbert Blau

Everybody has to remember that economics is very tied to politics.

— Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada

In politics it is necessary to take nothing tragically and everything seriously.

— Anonymous

Politics is my second love, next to my love for Raisa [Gorbacheva].

— Mikhail Gorbachev

The Constitution is like my old blue dress ... it doesn't fit anymore.

— Ellen Tauscher

“Corporate controlled governments are the enemy of the future generations.”

— Steven Magee

I would be an activist but never a politician. As an activist, nobody owns you.

— Sinbad

A politics of vengeance is not politics. Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present…

— Bernard Crick

“Entre los individuos, como entre las naciones, el respeto al derecho ajeno es la paz -- Among individuals, as among nations, respect…

— Benito Juárez

“Dying at the hands of government goons was always going to happen. Waking up in a dark and twisted afterlife? Not the…

— Lyssa Dering

“We plaster our news reports with political pundits not offering independent opinions but serving their masters.”

— Sharyl Attkisson

If my son enters politics, I will be able to guide him. He too would have learnt a lot from watching me,…

— Sharad Pawar

More than anything, it's a game of innocence. Politicians may come and go, but they always get booed at the ballpark.

— Pete Hamill

As more time passes, people see my father for what he is - one of the last of a generation who went…

— Dorothy Bush Koch

It's about something that strikes you as funny but I do it with a Christian world view: why we think the way…

— Brad Stine

Distributed ledger technologies have the potential to help governments to collect taxes, deliver benefits, issue passports, record land registries, assure the supply…

— Mark Walport

Laws and regulations are supposed to restrict the kind of surveillance governments do. In fact, the U.S. government is quite restricted in…

— Mikko Hypponen

It is not because a part of the government is elective, that makes it less a despotism, if the persons so elected,…

— Thomas Paine

“Is this how you see me – as your government teacher? Because if I saw you as a student I wouldn’t be…

— Gretchen de la O

It's a good feeling to be able to help, when help is needed. That's one reason I also went into politics. But…

— Amanda Blake

NGOs have a complicated space in neoliberal politics. They are supposed to mop up the anger. Even when they are doing good…

— Arundhati Roy

... I cannot think a civilization worth having that does not encourage and enable its subjects to spend something, not extorted by…

— Freya Stark

I would like to say, historically, from the very beginning, our people have time and again expressed the need for people to…

— Leonard Peltier

“In politics, the things that do not happen are frequently as significant as those that do.”

— Theodore H. White

Owes unions who endorsed him; that's why he's in politics.

— Barack Obama

Government influences your life every day. If there's a war, they're not drafting guys my age.

— Mike Quigley

Politicians in this country have always been for sale. That is nothing new.

— Peter Schuyler

Politicians are dumb, but they can count to 50% plus one.

— Will Rogers

I'm not a politician. I think that uniquely qualifies me to become president of the U.S.

— Roseanne Barr

Let one state in the U.S. be free of government and overnight you would have an economic powerhouse.

— James Cook

In a confrontation with the politics of power, the soft center has always melted away.

— Lord Hailsham

What you see is when the government gets involved, you run out of money and health care gets rationed.

— Rick Scott

Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.

— Emile Zola

When have you ever seen someone who had no doubts who was also correct about anything?

— Orson Scott Card

You know there's no crooked politicians. There's never a lie because there is never any truth.

— Lenny Bruce

In politics, during my organisational roles, I have never seen gender bias within my organisation.

— Smriti Irani

Civility matters, respect matters, listening matters, and effective governance matters.

— Dean Phillips

I should have had a circuitous answer; that was a non-answer.

— Geraldine Ferraro

Politics' the polite word for antediluvian prejudices, the rags put on by enmity and tribal resentment.

— Joseph O'Connor