Politics Quotes · Page 286

I chose not to go into politics and policy. Those policies are my husband's job.

— Melania Trump

Despite my work, I know some in politics will never support me. I see them distort my record.

— London Breed

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

— Edith Sitwell

Politics takes patience, time, listening and endless meetings.

— Dick Gephardt

I think most Americans don't really care about politicians bickering in Washington.

— Ted Cruz

The thing about politics is to plan 10 years ahead, and assume every year is your last.

— Ed Balls

It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is hard to know what Sarah Palin means in Republican politics anymore.

— Rachel Maddow

Cynics who say power is all that counts in politics forget that power without ideas is just improvisation.

— Michael Ignatieff

Freedom was given to humanity by God. But, governments, if they can help it, never give freedom. They just hand out slavery…

— Taylor Caldwell

Political renegades always start their career of treachery as 'the best men of all parties' and end up in the Tory knackery.

— Neil Kinnock

I am not a politician nor an activist but in my small way try and bring change with the kind of films…

— Abhay Deol

The aim of constitutional government is to preserve the Republic; that of revolutionary government is to lay its foundation.

— Maximilien Robespierre

Loyalty must arise spontaneously from the hearts of people who love their country and respect their government.

— Hugo Black

From 4 to 6 percent of the presidential office is not in administration but in morals, politics, and spiritual leadership . He…

— William Allen White

Congress is unable to do the work of the American people because too many politicians believe that compromise means capitulation.

— Emanuel Cleaver

The challenge to our liberties comes frequently not from those who consciously seek to destroy our system of government, but from men…

— William O. Douglas

“We are naked, but we think we are not; we are wrong, but think we are correct. We are misled but we…

— Nilantha Ilangamuwa

Keynes was chief economic adviser to the British government and largely responsible for keeping the British economy afloat at a time when…

— Freeman Dyson

To blindly trust government is to automatically vest it with excessive power. To distrust government is simply to trust humanity - to…

— James Bovard

I was naive enough to believe it would be enough to replace the government. Well, I made fun of the people in…

— Damon Albarn

This [the U.S. Constitution] is likely to be administered for a course of years and then end in despotism... when the people…

— Benjamin Franklin

In the 1950s, the black men and women and their white allies who fought for civil rights and basic human dignity could…

— Joy Reid

A partnership between the federal government and American's small businesses based upon information sharing is critical to ensure the data protection of…

— Byron Donalds

Politics is everywhere.. it is in your shirt.. in your pants.. everywhere.

— Rahul Gandhi

Government conspiracy? They can't even deliver our mail and it's got our address on it and everything!

— P. J. O'Rourke

People movements have heralded a new era of Taiwan politics.

— Ko Wen-je

Shutting down the government is not how you make government work.

— George Clooney

There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place.

— Winston Churchill

They sell us the President the same way they sell us our clothes and cars.

— Jackson Browne

“‎"A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves." - Edward R. Murrow”

— Edward R. Murrow

“State politics is show business for ugly people who can’t remember their lines.”

— James Browning

“In a stern rebuke of U.S. government policies, the Supreme Court of Canada”

— Bobby Akart

Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.

— Winston Churchill

A lot of times in politics you have people look you in the eye and tell you what's not on their mind.

— George W. Bush

I am not a politician. I am just a business guy who has had enough.

— Carlos Beruff

“It's exhausting. When everything's a deliberate political stance. Even if it's interesting.”

— A.S. Byatt

... after you have once ridden behind a motorcycle escort, you are never the same again

— Herbert H. Lehman

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

— Calvin Coolidge

If you listen to the politicians, you might think we are all terrorists

— Loesje