Politics Quotes · Page 277

I have always liked the Kennedys as politicians. They had such great hair.

— Pamela Anderson

I just want to use my voice and my platform to help people. Whether it be political or therapeutic.

— Cordae

I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.

— Nancy Reagan

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

— Bill Clinton

The business of government relies upon people accepting responsibility for their mistakes.

— Suella Braverman

If you can eliminate the government as a 39.6% partner, then you will be much better off.

— Warren Buffett

Work is pushing matter around. Politics is pushing people around.

— Thomas Szasz

The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy.

— Anonymous

Government is not a substitute for people, but simply the instrument through which they act. And if the individual fails to do…

— Bernard Baruch

“Whenever we use our religion, as individuals, or as groups within the church, to act in tandem with political and economic groups…

— Megan McKenna

People are really looking for greater sense of control of what happens in their lives, about the issues they really care about,…

— Steve Hilton

I actually thought I was going to be a politician. I like people and I like to argue, and I like to…

— Ariana DeBose

It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.

— Robert Byrd

“Restraint, however, is the essence of modern governance. A government’s self-control permits its people to create, explore, and discover, and that’s what…

— Gordon G. Chang

See the judge upon the bench who tries the case as best he can, see the wise and wicked ones who feed…

— Gordon Lightfoot

Ronald Reagans vision of smaller government, less taxes, and a strong national defense has led to a prosperous America. As president, he…

— David Vitter

“Nothing you do in the White House matters. You know why not? Because as far as the mass of voting morons is…

— Neil Gaiman

“Statistics became what it still is today: a form of political rhetoric. The categories that statisticians had to develop were reified in…

— Jürgen Osterhammel

We live in a very low state of the world, and pay unwilling tribute to government founded on force. There is not,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our economy will not prosper as long as it is monopolised (by the government). The economy must be rid of monopoly and…

— Hassan Rouhani

OK, so $1 trillion is what it costs to run the federal government for one year. So this money's going to run…

— Susan Davis

We need to prepare for the inevitable collapse that's going to happen. Yes, I say that as a politician on stage. It's…

— Matt Shea

In the 1950s and '60s the [democrat] party included many obviously earnest and thoughtful liberals who supported goals that were in line…

— Peggy Noonan

“Agood part of the British case for having created India’s political unity and democracy lies in the evolution of three of democracy’s…

— Shashi Tharoor

In politics a community of hatred is almost always the foundation of friendships.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

With the shock of war the state comes into its own again.

— Randolph Bourne

In my political career, I'd like to see a constitutional balanced budget amendment.

— Ken Buck

I've never paid attention to politics. I only have the vaguest notion of what the IRA is.

— Nicholas Haslam

You can use a biography to examine political power, but only if you pick the right guy.

— Robert Caro

Corruption is not the sole test of your worthiness to form the government.

— P. Chidambaram

A minority government can't govern without support from other parties.

— Nicola Sturgeon

“What happened to the good old days when rich white men just bought their way into office?”

— Jennifer Crusie

I began as a writer and started blogging in 2001, first on politics, anonymously.

— Dana Loesch

Governments should not possess instruments of coercion and violence denied to their citizens.

— Edgar A Suter

Look, good government doesn't look for excuses, good government gets on with the job.

— Tony Abbott

If a tax cut increases government revenues, you haven't cut taxes enough.

— Milton Friedman

The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.

— William F. Buckley, Jr

There is an infinity of political errors which, being once adopted, become principles.

— Guillaume Thomas Francois Raynal

“We are a nation that has a government--not the other way around.”

— Ronald Reagan

Anyone who does not understand the utter cynicism of politics does not understand politics.

— Thomas Sowell