Politics Quotes · Page 250

NGOs have a significant role to play, alongside governments, in improving the status of women.

— Jenny Shipley

Never look to politicians to solve your problems, they will only create new ones.

— Keith Waterhouse

He that would govern others, first should be Master of himself.

— Philip Massinger

Democrats don't represent the taxpayers, they represent the tax-consumers...

— Glenn Reynolds

The government bugged the men's room in the local disco lounge.

— Don Henley

Legalized gambling cost taxpayers $3 for every $1 in state revenue to government

— John Warren Kindt

Progressive politics in America is an organizational disaster.

— David Brock

Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.

— Mark Twain

An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in…

— Nathan Myhrvold

Welcome to the decline of America where, in six short decades, we have gone from aspiring to judge a man by the…

— Will Cain

The threat to change Senate rules is a raw abuse of power and will destroy the very checks and balances our founding…

— Harry Reid

A public role endures for the literary high-command, as sages and seers, speaking out on social and political issues.

— Tibor Fischer

Politics abhors a vacuum, and Asian countries will gravitate towards China if U.S. influence is perceived as declining.

— John McCain

How many times will we allow Justin Trudeau to get away with pushing strong, competent capable women out of politics when they…

— Annamie Paul

“I do not really think Charlie knows much more about politics, history, or economics than I do. Like myself he was hit…

— Buster Keaton

My father was prime minister, and to take care of his home, to be his hostess, automatically meant to have my hands…

— Indira Gandhi

“Young Tchitcherine was the one who brought up political narcotics. Opiates of the people. Wimpe smiled back. An old, old smile to…

— Thomas Pynchon

“Sigils are monograms of thought, for the government of energy (all hereditary crests, monograms, etc., are Sigils and represent the Karmas they…

— Austin Osman Spare

“we have one weakness that, considering our political maturity as a nation, is rather immature. We continue to expect the world to…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

The question is...whether we shall, by whatever means, succeed in reconstituting the natural world as the true terrain of politics, rehabilitating the…

— Vaclav Havel

In my opinion, this vicious circle will be broken by history itself. Because sticking to the current form of governance, which is…

— Garry Kasparov

Our government should do everything it can to ensure the successful prosecution of those responsible for the murders of U.S. citizens abroad.…

— Tim Bishop

There are some militarists who say: ‘We are not interested in politics but only in the profession of arms.’ It is vital…

— Mao Zedong

Lincoln was a modernizer, so to speak. He believed in economic development. As a Whig before the war he favored what we…

— Eric Foner

What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters?

— Khalil

The decision to serve needs to be independent of your politics.

— Pete Buttigieg

I don't think music should be played anywhere near politics. The two don't go together.

— Leon Redbone

The student of politics therefore as well as the psychologist must study the nature of the soul.

— Aristotle

In a democracy, people tend to get the kind of government they deserve.

— John Lanchester

Unless your politics speak to the people who you want to support you, they're not going to support you.

— Francis X. Suarez

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism.

— Theodore Roosevelt

We share no data with the government anywhere in the world.

— Ginni Rometty

A government builds its prestige upon the apparently voluntary association of the governed.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Some years ago, the federal government declared war on poverty, and poverty won.

— Ronald Reagan

Not only has celebrity dumbed down our politics, it has become intertwined with it.

— Bob Beckel

There's one job of government and that's to protect its citizens and protect those in law enforcement.

— Dagen McDowell

It will help erase the idea that politics is a second-rate profession and a dirty business.

— Anonymous

It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself.

— Thomas Paine

Wisdom degenerates in governments as governments increase in age.

— Thomas Paine

I just think that the older you get, the more you appreciate the responsibility of politics.

— Enda Kenny