Politics Quotes · Page 287

When I started crediting myself as writer and director, I saw that as a political act.

— David Cage

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

— Thomas Paine

“I wonder how long it takes for these people we elect to forget who they work for?”

— Dan Groat

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

— Theodore Roosevelt

It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.

— Thomas Jefferson

The secret of political bargaining is to look more strong than what you really are.

— Subhas Chandra Bose

Being Politically Correct means always having to say you're sorry.

— Charles Osgood

“The aim of all government is to make all government superfluous.”

— Johann Fichte

I think fully, that an independent candidate can't win in this country. The Constitution is structured for basically a two-party government, a…

— Michael Bloomberg

“Conversations about politics can give you the somewhat errant impression that you can make a difference to people's lives by talking about…

— Daniela Norris

In fact, it is more interesting to play someone whose politics is not in sync with my own politics because then I…

— Rasika Dugal

I don't put much faith in the political system because it's a question of how are you going to run capitalism, not…

— Tom Hodgkinson

My political life has been informed by the view that if there was any truth to religion there wouldn't really be any…

— Christopher Hitchens

It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning…

— Anonymous

The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done.

— Honore de Balzac

I think the Americans have it right. The idea of having guns is essentially to protect yourself from a totalitarian government.

— Lauren Southern

We are a religious nation because we do not have a state religion, because the government guarantees freedom of religion but has…

— Geraldine Ferraro

The BJP, undoubtedly, is a party with a mission. Spreading hatred and religious discord, indulging in state-sponsored violence and fake encounter killings,…

— Kapil Sibal

“When we examine, not the language of the propaganda, but the witness of the combatants themselves, religion does not occupy the first…

— Tzvetan Todorov

“Writing to his son in 1799, John Adams blamed America’s political turmoil on “a systematical dissolution of the true Family Authority. There…

— Alan Taylor

“The cultural and political conflicts in the contemporary world have much to do with the clash of the senses of dignity in…

— Qianfan Zhang

I think that many citizens understand how our system works, or rather, fails to work, for structural reasons. But who has the…

— Thomas Pogge

Relationships are at the core of any political system and economic system - any family - and I think we drifted away…

— Hillary Clinton

“While a major focus of this book is fear mongering by journalists and others, throughout the chapters that follow I take note…

— Barry Glassner

Politics are not my concern… They impressed me as a dog's life without a dog's decencies.

— Rudyard Kipling

Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.

— Benjamin Whichcote

The age of mass politics is one that demands radical solutions rather than tinkering.

— Owen Jones

If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them.

— Loni Anderson

We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Once government got a taste of money, the appetite grew.”

— Robert Kiyosaki

An ocean of ink - real and virtual - has been spilled critiquing the appearance of female politicians.

— Nell Scovell

The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government.

— George Washington

Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you.

— Anonymous

Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.

— Bill Gates

Your country needs religious leaders and religious politicians

— Tariq Ramadan

Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.

— Maggie Gallagher

When you put your faith in big government, you end up an apologist for mass murder.

— Karl Hess

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

— Woodrow Wilson

If the economy is strained, then Social Security, like the rest of the government, will be, too.

— Mark Dayton

Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities, are incapable of self-government.

— Thomas Jefferson