Politics Quotes · Page 266

There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action.

— Harry Bridges

I'll be willing to do things that politicians won't do. Because I don't care who I upset.

— Bruce Rauner

“Secretaries of Astronautics don’t have to know much about science. They have to know about politics.”

— Octavia E. Butler

When I was growing up in the United States and Sweden, I never thought about becoming a politician.

— George Papandreou

In politics, you win and you lose. You come up in power, you go down; it's part of life.

— Sonia Gandhi

Bringing world leaders together as human beings rather than political machines is very important.

— James P. Gorman

The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.

— Clare Boothe Luce

I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

— Kin Hubbard

Your mom was right when she told you never to discuss politics and religion because emotions run so high in those arenas.…

— Bill O'Reilly

While religious institutions should be able to pick and choose which unions they bless, civil governments should issue marriage licenses to all…

— Richard Grenell

Think about the world you want to live and work in. What do you need to know to build the world? Demand…

— Peter Kropotkin

To political technocrats, 2008 marks the maturation of 'microtargeting' - a technique that, if things are as close in November as expected,…

— Steven Levy

“Secrecy is like oxygen to politicians and defense forces; there’s always got to be some of it to keep them going.”

— Peter F. Hamilton

International institutions are composed of governments. Governments control their own military forces and police.

— Samantha Power

I consider myself a kind of a one-man government-in-exile. I don't want to call it a government - let's call it one…

— Michael Moriarty

The only people who should suffer financial hardship when elected leaders can't govern are the elected leaders themselves.

— Dean Phillips

The ruling quality of leaders adaptive capacity, is what allows true leaders to make the nimble decisions that bring success. Adaptive capacity…

— Warren G

“Housing projects are a great metaphor for the government's relationship to poor folks: these huge islands built mostly in the middle of…

— Jay-Z

Both morally and practically, segregation is to me a basic injustice. Since I believe it to be so, I must attempt to…

— Bayard Rustin

It is past time for the federal government to establish an Unhoused Bill of Rights and make the desperately needed investments to…

— Cori Bush

With whomsoever or wheresoever may rest the present causes of difficulty that apparently exist towards either the completion of the old engine,…

— Ada Lovelace

The ideology of MK (Mahatma) Gandhi has really deep roots, there is no permanent enemy in politics ! some groups hate him…

— Main Uddin

If you want to right-size executive power relative to the other branches of government, the best way to do that is to…

— Barack Obama

“Pundits and politicians have rightly questioned whether conservatism can successfully appeal to secular Americans. It is not a certainty, however, that conservatism…

— George Hawley

It's a difficult thing today to be informed about our government even without all the secrecy.

— Donald Rumsfeld

The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.

— Jim Hightower

“If young people do not begin to make history, politicians and inevitability will destroy it.”

— Timothy Snyder

Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Everything about American politics makes me proud to be Canadian.

— Neve Campbell

I think good governance and good politics can go together.

— N. Chandrababu Naidu

I'm enjoying turning down all requests for interviews. I don't miss being in politics.

— Jeb Bush

I've never bought the argument that people are apathetic about politics.

— Chuka Umunna

“Jazz, like left-wing politics and 'the common man', was a cause .”

— Martin T. Williams

Politicians don't like tough coverage, and their protectors try to destroy the messengers.

— Jake Tapper

The federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government.

— Ronald Reagan

I know I should have never got into politics. And I've learned my lesson. No more politics.

— Amitabh Bachchan

The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.

— Zora Neale Hurston

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

— George Bernard Shaw

How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself?

— Seneca the Younger

“Crime pays...when you work for the corrupt corporate government.”

— Steven Magee