Politics Quotes · Page 297

America was built on personal responsibility and opportunity, not a government hand out.

— Anonymous

Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.

— Todd Gitlin

Public unions are the country's foremost advocates for increased taxes at all levels of government.

— Jonah Goldberg

Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

— Lyndon B Johnson

“We need a political earthquake, not geologic earthquake.”

— Davan Yahya Khalil

India has been at the greatest loss because governments were run only for elections.

— Narendra Modi

ONLY a government that is AFRAID of its citizens tries to control them.

— Thomas Jefferson

“Government disinformation is an intelligent joke for smart generation.”

— Toba Beta

“I think patriotism should be all about wanting to see Liberia develops, beyond one's commitment to a tribe, party, leaders, and past…

— Henry Johnson Jr

“Most politicians are like hurricanes. They know their path and their destination. Woe to anyone standing on their way!”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

Rather than play politics with funding our government, pitting one group against another, we should make strong investments in our future.

— Seth Moulton

It would be naive to imagine we have solved all our income security problems simply because the roles of the federal and…

— Kim Campbell

Teaching is a good preparation for politics because you have to reply to questions when you don't know the answer.

— Keith Best

It is time for the government of China to stop holding innocent religious figures in captivity merely for peacefully protesting China's occupation…

— Sam Brownback

Mrs. Bonneville never buckled her seat belt, even though it was required by state law; an ardent libertarian, she opposed government meddling…

— Carl Hiaasen

A lot of people say my songs are political, but that's not by plan. It's because I never found a place where…

— Manu Chao

You will continue to read stories of crookedness and corruption - of policemen who lie and steal, doctors who reap where they…

— Robert Fulghum

We do have to balance this issue of privacy and security. Those who pretend that there's no balance that has to be…

— Barack Obama

“I watched with incredulity as businessmen ran to the government in every crisis, whining for handouts or protection from the very competition…

— William E. Simon

In modern Russia, you have no official, formal assessment of this past. Nobody in any Russian document has said that the policy…

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

“I saw the figure of 178 Billion wasted/stolen from the people of a country by its corrupt and inept government. Such a…

— Tony Dovale

Economic freedom is in our eyes a good. It is among the highest of temporal goods because it is necessary to the…

— Hilaire Belloc

“the problem of life was as simple as it was classic. Politics offered no difficulties, for there the moral law was a…

— Henry Adams

Is it all right for the government to allow the murder of an innocent human being? From the moment of conception, a…

— Kathy Ireland

“Once more, we will have a government of, by and for the people.”

— David Horowitz

“God's original purpose for government was to punish the evil and reward the good.”

— William R. Bowen

“Make government the herder of the flock, and the herder will cull the undesirable sheep.”

— A.E. Samaan

“Public policy can help, but there is no government that can fix these problems for us.”

— J.D. Vance

Jesse Ventura took American politics and raised it to the level of professional wrestling.

— Argus Hamilton

We don't have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything.

— Bill Mollison

[V]irtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.

— George Washington

“For one change always leaves the toothing for another.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom.

— John Bolton

My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.

— Frances McDormand

Honesty in politics is much like oxygen. The higher up you go, the scarcer it becomes.

— Anonymous

My problem with political art is not that it's bad art necessarily, but that it is terrible politics.

— Peter Schjeldahl

There are dumb actors. But there are dumb politicians and dumb bakers.

— Tim Robbins

Let's shrink the federal government and return power to the states.

— Doug Burgum

The problem is not liberal politicians, its evangelical preachers.

— Paul Washer

Politicians should trust people with the truth. Very often, we don't do that.

— Leo Varadkar