Politics Quotes · Page 291

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.

— Doug Larson

The true American patriot is by definition skeptical of the government.

— Sarah Vowell

How could you say the best form of government is a republic if you think the universe is a monarchy?

— Alan Watts

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.

— Leo Rosten

Logically, a Congress-led government looks difficult.

— Arun Jaitley

I would feel a little awkward because of my connection with politics.

— Monica Lewinsky

It is not the function of the leader of government business to discipline members of the executive.

— Cyril Ramaphosa

Nazism: You have two cows. The Government shoots you and takes the cows.

— Anonymous

The political process is rough and tumble by definition, and being grounded in faith in a Higher Power has proven helpful in…

— Hakeem Jeffries

I had realized in the meantime that action too has its difficulties, and that one can also be led to it by…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically, it is the erosion…

— Ayn Rand

The Republicans were not always insane. They might've had politics I didn't agree with, but they weren't always actually certifiable.

— Salman Rushdie

I dealt with people with diverse political views. If you find people who are your political opponents, and talk to them for…

— Cass Sunstein

“This meant there could be no German rearmament; that meant there could be no equality of arms, and that in turn, by…

— James L. Stokesbury

Government social programs introduced in the '60s by liberal Democratic politicians seduced black men into relying on 'programs' over God.

— Jesse Lee Peterson

People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.

— Calvin Trillin

History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. To keep the peace, we and our allies…

— Ronald Reagan

We have to judge politicians by their cumulative score. In one innings they make a great catch, in another they drop the…

— Jesse Jackson

We should not underestimate that: the Chinese people's ignorance. Thousands of years of despotism had been such a poison that their understanding…

— Sun Yat-sen

Freedom of movement in Europe has been all but abandoned as a cause in British politics. Brexit was far more about freedom…

— Owen Jones

I don't feel passionately about politics, i'm not a political person. Is it easy for me to get fired up about someone's…

— Rachel Maddow

Our constitutions purport to be established by 'the people,' and, in theory, 'all the people' consent to such government as the constitutions…

— Lysander Spooner

I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler…

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

“So identified has the State become in the public mind with the provision of these services that an attack on State financing…

— Murray N. Rothbard

“Do not waste your personal journey on politics, economics, or religion.”

— James Patrick Lane

We just need the government to be that greenhouse that permits our faith to grow.

— Max Lucado

A politician is a man who can be verbose in fewer words than anyone else.

— Peter De Vries

We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.

— Gore Vidal

You cannot have a government for and by the people if it is not represented by all of the people.

— Ayanna Pressley

War: First day in the U.S. Army, the government placed a Bible in my left hand, a bayonet in the other.

— Edward Abbey

Politicians take something out of context to create problems.

— Anurag Kashyap

Taxes will always be lower under a Coalition government

— Tony Abbott

No matter what your politics is, we ought to be thanking people for volunteering.

— George W. Bush

Earl of Sandwhich . . .You shall either die of the pox or on the gallows.

— John Wilkes

Hamas is a Palestinian political party with an aggressive militant wing.

— Richard Engel

Are the Democrats going to dance the mandate Macarena?

— Dan Rather

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

— Erich Fromm

Political speeches are like steer horns. A point here, a point there, and a lot of bull in between.

— Alfred E Neuman

All other things being equal, a bald man cannot be elected President of the United States.

— Victor Gold

The torch of liberty is hot; warms those who hold it high; burns those who try to extinguish it.

— Ronald Reagan