Politics Quotes · Page 264

For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict.

— John le Carre

Ain't that America, home of the free? Little pink houses for you and me.

— Anonymous

I designed collections around whatever struck my fancy ... fruits, vegetables, politics, or peacocks!

— Lilly Pulitzer

“People change, but politicians change too many times.”

— DON SANTO

“Well, if I ever suffer brain damage I know there's always a career waiting for me in local politics.”

— Jonathan L. Howard

There was a time that I questioned the government's role in abortion.

— Ken Cuccinelli

In politics, every year in the White House is like dog years, it takes off seven years of your life.

— George Stephanopoulos

“We are superior to government and should remain master over it, not the other way around.”

— Ezra Taft Benson

I’m planning to stay in politics now, but, you know, George Burns worked until he was 100. I don’t know. I don’t…

— Deval Patrick

But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand…

— Henry David Thoreau

Did you ever see that painting the Mona Lisa. It always reminds me of a reporter listening to a politician.

— Robert Orben

“When people start believing that all politicians are liars and crooks, the truly corrupt escape scrutiny, and cynicism grows.”

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

In entertainment value, the Democratic clambake usually lays it over the Republican conclave like ice cream over parsnips.

— Red Smith

I didn't go into politics because I'm a woman. I have done this because I have been interested in politics my whole…

— Ksenia Sobchak

I think Republicans need to do a better job of reaching out to everyone in the United States. Politics is always about…

— Marco Rubio

The Government has done a terrific job of supporting households and business during the Covid crisis, with innovative solutions such as the…

— Touker Suleyman

The head of the government ethics ought to be careful, because that person is becoming extremely political. Apparently, may have made a…

— Reince Priebus

I would like to know what politicians eat on the campaign trail, what Picasso ate in his pink period, what Walt Whitman…

— Mark Kurlansky

If you organize your life around some political party's list of things you should believe, or an individual that you think is…

— Craig Mazin

In sport, you only see the fighter, but it's teamwork. Without a good team, you will never be the best. In boxing,…

— Vitali Klitschko

If the government announced that it was going to allocate a vast tranche of education funding purely to the pupils at the…

— Will Self

Issues like immigration, police brutality, and other onerous laws put in place by local and state governments are prime avenues for active…

— Anthea Butler

Oh you who are born of the gods, easy is the descent into Hell. The door of darkness stands open day and…

— Virgil

“When the Crossfire paradigm loses its force, all that's left is a bunch of people with different views all sitting together in…

— Matt Taibbi

Democracy is disruptive... there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption.

— Naomi Wolf

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

— John Arbuthnot

The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people.

— William J. Clinton

If we don't get a grip on government spending, there will be no growth.

— George Osborne

We don't need to be politically correct. We need to be morally right.

— Jeanine Pirro

My politics would be, must be, have to be, completely separate from my judgment.

— Elena Kagan

May it be to the world... to assume the blessings and security of self-government.

— Thomas Jefferson

American agents... are the only persons authorized to hold councils of a political nature.

— Zebulon Pike

People everywhere face the threat of control by government and technology.

— Paul Craig Roberts

I have good friends who are politicians on both sides.

— Dwayne Johnson

There is an increasing awareness of the need for some form of global government.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

We make our own future; we govern ourselves, and to govern is to choose.

— Martin O'Malley

... it's important that people who are politically active understand both sides.

— Eva Longoria

“I say we cut our government in half, with a chainsaw along their waists.”

— Jarod Kintz

There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.

— Henry Ward Beecher

We in government need to ensure that the law is enforced.

— Penny Mordaunt