Politics Quotes · Page 283

With the same honest views, the most honest men often form different conclusions.

— Thomas Jefferson

The state is a creation of nature and man is by nature a political animal.

— Aristotle

Stop trying to control. Let go of fixed plans and concepts, and the world will govern itself.

— Laozi

I do not think it's good public policy to put 300,000 more Mississippians on government health care.

— Tate Reeves

I'm into politics - I'm interested in the election and how pissed off people get.

— Pauly Shore

The Federal Reserve bank buys government bonds without one penny...

— John C. Danforth

“Our politicians always show lame excuse to defend their cripple decisions.”

— Munia Khan

When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.

— Imelda Marcos

I'm not easily scared; from the age of 8, I learned what it means to have everything you know taken away and…

— Ilhan Omar

We felt that the employees would take a greater interest in work if they felt they were part of the company.

— William Redington Hewlett

I have worked in the federal government and saw the debilitating effects of our antiquated civil service system on morale and results.

— Stephen Moore

I think truth as an idea should be left to the philosophers and perhaps religious leaders and politicians, and professional people who…

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

People have a huge desire to be listened to, for politicians to take the time to understand their problems.

— Charles Kennedy

The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.

— Garry Kasparov

Fairness, does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young. ~ The blue man

— Mitch Albom

There is nothing quite so depressing as waking up to face a day when you know that you are going to have…

— Neal Boortz

The first act by virtue of which the State really constitutes itself the representative of the whole of societythe taking possession of…

— Friedrich Engels

Society and government at all levels - the state level, the local level and, of course, the federal level - really needs…

— Chris Smith

The U.K. government has been clear that it wants to use the opportunity of leaving the E.U. to design a future immigration…

— Amber Rudd

“Liberals tend to view traditions, policies, and morals of past generations as arbitrary designs put in place by less enlightened people. Because…

— John Hawkins

We are farmers, nobody in the family has a government job and my family has been supporting me with difficulty. But it…

— Neeraj Chopra

The American Left complains that we have no right to be the world's police force. On the contrary. We've been the world's…

— Tammy Bruce

MoveOn loves government. It remains enamored of government spending as fuel for its liberal agenda; and anything that threatens to close that…

— Bob Barr

We owe our troops more than rhetoric; we owe them a real plan. The Administration has yet to put forward a strategy…

— Dennis Cardoza

Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out; political passions, never.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

I'm not from the arts, I'm a law professor. But I think we need more poetry in politics.

— Zephyr Teachout

Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit he was a first-rate political economist.

— George Bernard Shaw

In Parliament we debate on and we decide the laws that are going to govern the country.

— Diane Abbott

“I"d done more apologizing in the past week than a politician with a crack pipe and a sex addiction.”

— Kristin Walker

The question isn't whether we 'need' guns. It's wether the government should have a monopoly on force

— Ann Coulter

The difference between golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie.

— George Deukmejian

I'm a comedian. You have to understand that my brain doesn't work like a politician's brain.

— Beppe Grillo

The US has a vital interest in that area of the country.

— Dan Quayle

“To make no decision in regard to the growth of authoritarian government is already a decision for it.”

— Francis August Schaeffer

The strongest continuous thread in America's political tradition is skepticism about government.

— George Will

Because of my political views, I've been targeted as a lightning rod, someone who's too far out there.

— John Turner

Champions of Liberty get called Fascists by Champions of Statism

— Jonah Goldberg

I love Canada. I am from Canada. I will bash the Canadian government but never Canada.

— Jason Priestley

“Policy may involve politics but, principle is principal.”

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind.

— Mike Norton