Politics Quotes · Page 258

There's so much compromise in politics. I'm not a good compromiser.

— Rick Santelli

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

— Leo Tolstoy

“Politics and friendships are like oil and water, you need a really good blender to make them work.”

— Kush Desai

Both my parents' brothers are into active politics and so was my grandfather.

— Mimi Chakraborty

Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal.

— Jack Abramoff

If you want to succeed in politics you must keep your conscience firmly under control.

— David Lloyd George

Campaigns waged with lies presage governments racked by distrust. The sclerosis starts there.

— Frank Bruni

Speaking as a man, it's not a woman's issue. Us men are tired of losing our women.

— Dan Quayle

Think well of yourself and others will too. Unless those others are in government, banking, or show business.

— Bob Saget

It is of considerable importance that politicians stick to their commitments or do not make such commitments in the first place.

— Jacob Rees-Mogg

“Don't get politics mixed up in this. It's all about money and it makes no difference if the Social Democrats or the…

— Stieg Larsson

By the time I finished doing regular practice, most of my work was in international regulatory law, so I was advising foreign…

— Robert Rinder

Terrorists can endanger some of us, but the war on terror endangers us all. How much more can the Constitution be diminished…

— Paul Craig Roberts

During my time as a political strategist, one of the most vexing problems was figuring out why so many people vote against…

— James Carville

Only the Liberal Democrats have probed the government's failings consistently, thoroughly and effectively.

— Charles Kennedy

Be it or be it not true that Man is shapen in iniquity and conceived in sin, it is unquestionably true that…

— Herbert Spencer

Republicans should simply focus on first principles and give the American people what they want - an honest party dedicated to common…

— Tom Coburn

Anyone will acknowledge that there's a lot of people other than those who are elected who run the government, and who are…

— Aaron McGruder

We are on the brink of a new energy order. Over the next few decades, our reserves of oil will start to…

— Fatih Birol

“According to the Japanese government, people like me who’d moved to North Korea but not changed their nationality were still Japanese citizens.…

— Masaji Ishikawa

I can't marry myself to one idea or one form of doing politics or one form of understanding politics. I believe that…

— Bocafloja

People often of masterful intelligence, trained usually in law or economics or perhaps in political science, who have led their governments into…

— Michael Howard

Probably also due to the political situation getting just worse and more extreme, but also this distance and this sadness of this…

— Sayed Kashua

Our politics and science have never mastered the fact that people need more than to understand their obligation to one another and…

— Wendell Berry

There's not a single chef I know of that does not think about the politics of the food they're serving.

— Gail Simmons

If the government can't get the economy moving again, they have a lot of fundamental problems.

— David Wessel

Political development should start at the grassroots.

— Anonymous

“Take not for friends wolves and bankers; they both have voracious appetites - rjs”

— rassool jibraeel snyman

Politicians wanted to mine the Grand Canyon for zinc and copper, and Theodore Roosevelt said, No.

— Douglas Brinkley

Demonetisation was a defining moment in the government's war on corruption and black money.

— Ram Nath Kovind

Nobody is good enough to govern another person life without that person consent.

— Frenchqueen

I don't talk about my politics. I am registered as an independent.

— Charlie Rose

We shouldn't play politics with our national security.

— Andy Kim

The soul of our politics is the commitment to ending domination.

— Bell Hooks

I need money. I have a staff of 30, and four houses, never mind the government, to support.

— Bob Hope

We ought not to schismatize on either men or measures. Principles alone can justify that.

— Thomas Jefferson

I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.

— W. H. Auden

It makes me mad to see people in government serving themselves at our expense.

— Richard Cordray

Percentages! Those are for economists, polls, and politicians. Percentages can't define your identity.

— Mary E. Pearson

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

— R. Buckminster Fuller