Politics Quotes · Page 269

Careerism in Washington "goes to the heart of what's wrong in America right now."

— Tom Coburn

I have no regrets in going into politics or leaving the Tollywood for a while.

— Chiranjeevi

All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence.

— C. Wright Mills

Sunil Dutt asked me, rather pushed me, to join politics.

— Ranjeet

The government takes the opposition day debates incredibly seriously.

— Andrea Leadsom

I decided to go into politics because of our Soviet-style government.

— Bidzina Ivanishvili

Political paralysis and partisanship are sabotaging American power.

— Max Boot

“You don't get to be the president of anything if you have bad manners.”

— Daven Anderson

The reality is that capital punishment in America is a lottery. It is a punishment that is shaped by the constraints of…

— Bryan Stevenson

I think that Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late.

— Malcolm Muggeridge

Practically all government attempts to redistribute wealth and income tend to smother productive incentives and lead toward general impoverishment.

— Henry Hazlitt

I think one of the political problems we have in this country is the perspective that all soccer moms think alike, all…

— Anne Northup

We have seen enough criminality on the part of government. It is hypocritical to make this allegation against me. They have narrowed…

— Edward Snowden

I always wanted to go to Cuba growing up. It was this fascinating, forbidden country that seemed to have a lot of…

— Giovanni Ribisi

“The government isn't real," he replied. He might have been talking about Santa Claus or God. "I don't owe anything to anyone…

— Walter Mosley

While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government's letter cannot give me back my good name…

— Richard Jewell

“Democratic politics is about persuasion, not self-expression. I’m here, I’m queer will never provoke more than a pat on the head or…

— Mark Lilla

And it's absolutely hypocritical for the political party that talks about states rights, to suddenly ignore states rights, that say that the…

— Gary Ackerman

Politics becomes a part of a writer's working life. The writer's protagonists are born in the context of the feelings that this…

— Simin Behbahani

The image of a free constitution was preserved with decent reverence: the Roman senate appeared to possess the sovereign authority, and devolved…

— Edward Gibbon

“What is all the enormous amount of activity spent uselessly in politics every day but an expression of the need to lend…

— Peter Kropotkin

I started using my blog to get information about cities I was about to visit, asking followers what the main problems there…

— Beppe Grillo

When I need to take a side, I write a newspaper article and I tell my government, "You should not do that,…

— Amos Oz

No diplomatic intervention will ever be made by any government that I lead in support of any individual terrorist's life. We have…

— Kevin Rudd

“The best one can hope for is a government favorable to certain claims and demands from the Left.”

— Gilles Deleuze

Murphy Brown is doing better than I am. At least she knows she still has a job next year.

— Dan Quayle

I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.

— Naguib Mahfouz

What the government and we in society need to do is to address the issue of gender justice.

— Kapil Sibal

We mistake politics for legislative debate. You can be passionate without being personal.

— Richard Dreyfuss

Focus on the competition to diminish the time dedicated to internal politics.

— James Kerr

Even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror.

— George Washington

The energy I was sensing in audiences was political energy, as much as anything else.

— Michael Pollan

“Disappointment comes about when your only interest is in politicians.”

— Zerevan Chey

The only greater [evil] than separation... [is] living under a government of discretion.

— Thomas Jefferson

When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it.

— William J. Clinton

Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.

— Tom Lehrer

The primary role of government is to provide for the safety and security of their populations.

— Pete Hoekstra

The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs.

— Hunter S. Thompson

Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

— Horace

I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments

— John Steinbeck