Politics Quotes · Page 280

“Politicians are judged by what they say and they don't do”

— Michelangelo Saez

Constitutional government, as designed by the framers, will survive only with a righteous people.

— Ezra Taft Benson

It's a cowardly form of politics to use my spouse to beat me.

— John Bercow

Well the first order of government is to preserve the public order and safety.

— Bob Wise

If the voters really understood what we were up to they'd vote us out of office.

— Robert Byrd

But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.

— Thomas Jefferson

A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government.

— Joseph Story

...in the hands of politicians grand designs achieve nothing but new forms of the old misery...

— John le Carre

Lowering the middle-class tax rate... will likely lower work efforts and increase government dependence.

— Edward Conard

At Inter, we spent so much time dealing with politics, with agents. That took up 50 percent of my time, when it…

— Frank de Boer

“Politics is a matter of desires and personal feelings or emotions, only parliament tries to bring reason into the state.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

If politicians did care about their constituents, they would work harder to seek out people like me. They don't.

— Carl Hart

I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was…

— Helmut Newton

The Ethiopian government's use of the railway from Djibouti to Addis Ababa was, in practice, a hazardous regards transport of arms intended…

— Haile Selassie

My definition of patriotism is that it is unconscionable for you to disrespect the flag. You can be a patriot and challenge…

— Emily Compagno

I try not to get too political. But coming from South Africa, where apartheid was a huge problem, and there was lots…

— Kevin Anderson

Landowners and influential men of all kinds, especially members of political councils, ought to set an example to the people. The young…

— Chiang Kai-shek

In Britain, a 'block list' of harmful Web sites, used by all the major Internet Service Providers, is maintained by a private…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

“Reformers believed moral and political relationships were learned in play. Given street-afforded license, kids would grow up bad. “If we let the…

— Mike Wallace

Every Palestinian family feels the effects of the international embargo. But the more the pressure on the government grows, the more support…

— Ismail Haniyeh

Instead of exporting what they perceived to be rational, modern, humane government to their colonies, the British often found themselves propping up…

— Linda Colley

I am not one of those who think that the people are never in the wrong. They have been so, frequently and…

— Edmund Burke

...if [the 9/11/01 attacks] had happened to the Russians, about three major cities in the Middle East would have been parking lots…

— James Woods

Our people are willing to work with the government on new technologies. Now, it's a habit; every Estonian looks at it as…

— Kersti Kaljulaid

Politics is all about relationships, people. A lot of it's emotional. It's not rocket science.

— William M. Daley

“The difference between Opinion and News is the adjectives used.”

— Benjamin Kane Ethridge

The content I produce isn't coming at the behest of a corporation or a government.

— Tim Pool

The young man who joins a political party is a traitor to his generation and to his race.

— Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

We need to work out what kind of systems of governance we should have.

— Arvind Kejriwal

People in charge of intelligence are political as well.

— Rick Santelli

The United States Congress, like a lot of rich people, lives in two houses.

— John Green

Our culture is more shaped by the arts and humanities than it often is by politics.

— Jim Leach

The only people I know getting in high places by running their mouth are politicians.

— Bo Jackson

Identity politics is the mother's milk of the Democratic Left.

— Charles Krauthammer

The political process consists entirely of politicians talking out of their butts.

— P. J. O'Rourke

People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'

— P. J. O'Rourke

People have different views on different situations in politics.

— Mike Evans

I will continue to help the political causes I believe in in any way I can.

— Alastair Campbell

Ours is a government elected by the people and it will not succumb to threats.

— Nawaz Sharif

My message is simple - freedom works a lot better than the authoritarian style of government.

— Ron Paul