Politics Quotes · Page 285

“Governments must be made for human beings as they are, or as they are capable of speedily becoming.”

— John Stuart Mill

Either you believe in markets, or you believe in government.

— Lawrence Kudlow

What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.

— Thomas Mann

“Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.”

— Otto von Bismarck

We'd all like t'vote for th' best man, but he's never a candidate

— Kin Hubbard

“No one can take away your Natural Rights, but they can do great damage making you think they can.”

— JSB Morse

I love the sharpness and political tone of RoboCop and I think that such a film is now urgently needed.

— Jose Padilha

“Don't ever get involved in politics, Theo. It's a dirty game.”

— John Grisham

The persons and property of our citizens are entitled to the protection of our government in all places where they may lawfully…

— Thomas Jefferson

When your government, employer, landlord, merchant, banker and local sports team gang up to picture, digitize and permanently record your every activity,…

— William Safire

The federal government seeks to control and regulate the Internet, but the last thing this Congress should be doing is trying to…

— Dennis Hastert

The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to…

— Tony Blair

President Obama was never going repeal Obamacare - he was not going to be brought to his knees with the threat of…

— Dana Perino

As governor, I'm spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.

— Jack Markell

My dad was ex-military, so I was raised to always know about current events, particularly what was going on with the military…

— Harris Faulkner

The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone.

— Robert Heilbroner

I believe that with the complete formation of the global Zionist network, they have seized control of the fate of the European…

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

I started writing novels while an undergraduate student, in an attempt to make sense of the city of Edinburgh, using a detective…

— Ian Rankin

In terms of what I wanted to do before I got into politics, I was a businessman. I ran a company that…

— Raja Krishnamoorthi

Hate speech it seems to be is been defined by the political left as anything we don't like, anything that violates social…

— Milo Yiannopoulos

“While this has never been the mainstream view in Germany, there are still political groups there today who refuse to acknowledge the…

— Keith Lowe

The dissolution of society bids fair to become the termination of a career of which property is the end and aim, because…

— Lewis Henry Morgan

The Clintons want to do big worthy things, but they also want to squeeze money from rich people wherever they live on…

— Maureen Dowd

“The holoCan washes them in pale light. Government news programs tell them to seek shelter. In her pocket the girl carries a…

— Pierce Brown

I think the Republican Party is supposed to be the party of less government intrusion.

— Monica Crowley

Politics is human beings; it's addition rather than subtraction.

— Donald Rumsfeld

My job was to bring down the government, and I did that.

— Subramanian Swamy

I am not going to be the sort of politician who does all that stuff about their private life.

— Liz Kendall

Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose.

— James Ellroy

Voting Labour in the past hasn't protected Scotland against Tory governments.

— Nicola Sturgeon

I've never really read any books about Washington, neither the politics nor the city.

— Bennie Thompson

It's the role of a government to defend its soldiers and its citizens.

— Ehud Barak

For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.

— Gerry Adams

Peace is a national issue, not only government's responsibility.

— Ashraf Ghani

The purity of the critical ermine, like that of the judicial, is often soiled by contact with politics.

— Edwin Percy Whipple

I think it is wrong to balance the budget on the backs of local government.

— Nina Turner

I think it's important for the people to see the government is functioning...

— Ari Fleischer

Politically speaking, politicians should not interfere in politics.

— Mohammad MUSTAFA

Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.

— Ann Richards

Just because someone has a different political view or opinion than you doesn't make them a bad person.

— Maddie Marlow