Politics Quotes · Page 265

All that we got here is American made. It's a little bit cheesy, but it's nicely displayed.

— Frank Zappa

If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

— Amy Grant

Every single stage of reform becomes more difficult because you use political capital.

— Jose Angel Gurria

The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government.

— James K. Polk

There is a government within the government who controll this and i do not controll it

— William J. Clinton

I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me.

— William Weld

I'm a politician. I run for office. That's my profession.

— Bella Abzug

I haven't been in politics too long so that's a good thing.

— Justin Amash

The moral consequences of totalitarian propaganda...are destructive of all morals because they undermind one of the foundations of all morals: the sense…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Politics doesn't work. Look at the parts of America where government has had the most power, where government has spent the most…

— P. J. O'Rourke

In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.

— Baron de Montesquieu

The [Elian] raid... was almost worth it, if only to watch Jesse Jackson...defending an armed pre-dawn raid by the US government on…

— Rich Galen

If you look at the U.S. government data, our own data, there is as much coca today in Colombia and as much…

— Jan Schakowsky

Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the…

— Wendell Phillips

Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-long debates about the role of government for all time, but it does require us…

— Barack Obama

There are a lot of places in the world that I have played and continue to go, which you could question... some…

— Paul Casey

In Australia’s biggest cities, public transport is generally slow, expensive, not especially reliable and still hideous drain on the public purse. Part…

— Tony Abbott

American political scions evoke a central contradiction in our thinking. We believe - or say we do - in nurture, not nature.…

— Michael Beschloss

“I have always regarded Paine as one of the greatest of all Americans. Never have we had a sounder intelligence in this…

— Thomas A. Edison

I received a letter from a lad asking me for an easy berth. To this I replied: You cannot be an editor;…

— Henry Ward Beecher

So I think that if we want to have a Congress, if we want to have government that looks like America, if…

— Carol Moseley Braun

A capitalist is someone who derives a substantial share of his income from his equity in producing companies. On this scale the…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

What is this thing we call government? Is it anything but organized violence? The law orders you to obey, and if you…

— Alexander Berkman

If you see voters as rational, you'll be a terrible politician. People are not wired to be rational. Our brains simply evolved…

— Scott Adams

“I pledge allegiance to a country without borders, without politicians”

— Switchfoot

Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.

— Ben Okri

No politician should ever let himself be photographed in a bathing suit.

— Adolf Hitler

Haven't you noticed that every time the government f-ks up McDonald's has a new sandwich?

— Bill Burr

Inclusion is not a matter of political correctness. It is the key to growth.

— Jesse Jackson

Those who misspent the government's money, they should be arrested and locked up.

— Jovenel Moise

Otherwise we don't run the government the government runs us

— Carl Sagan

“My mind is like the Titanic, to many brain cells for the life boats.”

— Steve Merrick

Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life.

— David Hockney

Seek justice from tyrannical governments not with your hat in your hands but with a rifle in your fist.

— Emiliano Zapata

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

— Will Rogers

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.

— John F. Kennedy

Every movement in the skies or upon the earth proclaims to us that the universe is under government.

— John William Draper

Truth is a habit of integrity, not a strategy of politics.

— George McGovern

This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine.

— Caleb Cushing

People who are wise, good, smart, skillful, or hardworking don't need politics, they have jobs.

— P. J. O'Rourke