Politics Quotes · Page 254

The government doesn't have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others.

— Milton Friedman

“Whether voting Republican or Democrat, the result is the same: A corrupt corporate government.”

— Steven Magee

Murli Manohar Joshi is a very fine person and politician.

— Shatrughan Sinha

The best politician is the politician who says what the people are thinking already.

— Tom Suozzi

Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source.

— Ron Nessen

I swore under oath with the government not to give the whereabouts of my location.

— George Thorogood

I think we all need a break from politics once in a while.

— Harry Enten

As a politician, you only meet two types of people. People with problems, and people who are right.

— Gyles Brandreth

Literally from the moment I came in the door of MIT, it was very clear that a highly productive 40-year partnership between…

— Anonymous

“Politics are for the Washington, D.C., policy makers who safely watched the action on a video monitor from thousands of miles away.”

— Mark Owen

(and Catholics give out forgiveness at about the same rate as politicians give out promises and whores give out)

— Zadie Smith

There is so much uncertainty out there, and the government in Washington doesn't seem to get it. What's needed is a new…

— Rob Portman

The weak economy, widening income inequality, gridlock in Congress and a presidential election: Those were perhaps the dominant economic and political themes…

— Steven Rattner

“And Leites and Wolf were wrong. “It has been said that most revolutions are not caused by revolutionaries in the first place,…

— Malcolm Gladwell

The kind of president we need has little to do with ideology and more to do with a willingness to wield power…

— George Friedman

There are wars, there's pestilence, there are plagues, there is corruption in religious circles, corruption in the government, when was it not?

— Tenzin Palmo

“In all societies, public rhetoric involves some measure of lying, and history -- political history and art history -- is made when…

— Masha Gessen

Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers's Centre Georges Pompidou of 1971-1977 - the true prototype of the modern museum as popular architectural spectacle…

— Martin Filler

Saudia Arabia takes in half a trillion dollars every year in oil revenue, and the country has a population smaller than New…

— Craig Ferguson

Actually, I have been very supportive of a very robust stimulus package from day one. I think this economy has to have…

— Judd Gregg

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to…

— Barack Obama

I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is physical difference between the…

— Abraham Lincoln

If you're unhappy with your circumstances, then change them. Don't blame the government or your boss or the guy down the street…

— Steven Crowder

There is not a more dangerous experiment than to place property in the hands of one class, and political power in those…

— Daniel Webster

I believe Moses was 80 when God first commissioned him for public service.

— Ronald Reagan

We only have politicians who are concerned with being reelected.

— William E. Simon

Political debate is more interested in manipulating the truth, than finding the truth.

— George Soros

In politics, arts / no issue's dramatic / nor will 'play' till its heart's / simplified to fanatic.

— Mona Van Duyn

Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people.

— William McKinley

There's a tendency, especially among academics, to see politics as deeply dirty and deeply egotistical.

— Zephyr Teachout

I joined politics at the behest of my seniors and considered it my duty to do so.

— Govinda

We need to keep this Labour government, it has a good chance of another term.

— Clare Short

The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority.

— Walter Lippmann

I’ve come to believe that, fundamentally, art matters more than politics.

— John Luther Adams

All politics is personal with President Trump. And that carries with it great, great problems.

— Mark Shields

Nothing comes easy in life, but politics is incredibly difficult.

— Govinda

I loved politics and, I confess, I enjoyed politicians immensely.

— Jack Germond

Politicians are elected to do what is right, but too many are just doing what is right for the party.

— Theo Paphitis

This is such music to my ears. James Carville advocating a tax cut to stimulate the economy.

— Mary Matalin

All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war.

— Walter Benjamin