Politics Quotes · Page 246

“Even if you succeed in study and business, if your nation collapses, then what good is it for?”

— Hirobumi Ito

In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

On certain issues, one has to rise above party politics for the country to run.

— Amit Shah

Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.

— Ambrose Bierce

[P]rogressivism is a top-down, continent-wide tissue of taxes, mandates, and other coercions.

— George Will

We have people that are political hacks negotiating our trade deals.

— Donald Trump

I'm not worried by politics: I'm worried about the media.

— Rajinikanth

The modern day anarchists known as the Tea Party, they believe in no government.

— Harry Reid

If a politician is running in your local community who's pro-choice, who's feminist in their thinking, get behind them. Send them some…

— Ani DiFranco

Bringing an end to mass government surveillance needs to be a central pillar of returning to the principles we have put in…

— Yochai Benkler

I think the irony ... is that I actually would like to see a relatively light touch when it comes to the government.

— Barack Obama

The best justification governments can find to shut down information is that lives are at risk. In fact, lives have been at…

— Jemima Khan

Fathers need to be made aware of their responsibilities - and that's up to all of us to communicate, as parents, as…

— David Lammy

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

— Robert Orben

Justice is the object of government, and those who support the government, must be agreed as to the justice to be executed…

— Lysander Spooner

“I’m tired of lying governments. I’m tired of people not caring whether they’re being lied to any more. I’m tired of being…

— Ali Smith

One can understand the politics of that at this moment. It's an effort to buy time for a constituency of workers who…

— Judy Woodruff

“ What is a woman's place in this modern world? Jasnah Kholin's words read. I rebel against this question, though so many…

— Brandon Sanderson

If, in my retirement to the humble station of a private citizen, I am accompanied with the esteem and approbation of my…

— Thomas Jefferson

What is happening in politics today is a similar process to what happened in the medical world a few decades ago: realizing…

— Marianne Williamson

“Modern politics is like watching a film with only bad guys. It soon starts to get really boring, because one of the…

— Martinus Hendrikus Benders

Obviously, there are political operatives that are playing a role. It doesn't mean it shouldn't be denounced. All candidates should say, we…

— Kimberly Guilfoyle

President Eisenhower saw it coming, and it is here. Patriotism no longer exists among many of these corporations. Some companies have more…

— Byron Dorgan

I was never interested in the two-party system per se. I was interested in how authority was abused by government, and how…

— Jules Feiffer

No government can maintain the public's confidence if it is outwardly split.

— Grant Shapps

I resent it when any part of the government refers to people who have money in the pejorative.

— Judy Sheindlin

I'll work every day to try to make Washington, D.C., as inconsequential in your life as I can.

— Rick Perry

I mixed up the political program with my shopping list (on the elections)

— Loesje

It defies all common sense to send that roughneck ward politician back to the White House.

— Robert Taft

Ownership is a sine qua non of sustainable development.

— James Wolfensohn

And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

All might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they should.

— Samuel Adams

You know what the fastest growing religion in America is? Statism. The growing reliance on government.

— Marco Rubio

No Indian who aspires to follow the way of true religion can afford to remain aloof from politics.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I also think that [political turmoil] gives artists something, a way of kind of processing.

— Morgan Parker

Formation of alignments for governments are done by our central parliamentary board and not locally.

— Sushma Swaraj

“You know what show I thought was a riot? Live coverage of Egyptians overthrowing their government.”

— Jarod Kintz

Campo, as everyone in chess recognized, had a 2600 rating as a politician.

— Raymond Keene

God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives!

— James A. Garfield

A Government protected by foreigners will never be accepted by a free people.

— Napoleon Bonaparte