Politics Quotes · Page 301

Just because you are not interested in politics, does not mean that politics is not interested in you.

— Pericles

For most of my life, I've considered myself a political centrist.

— Mark McKinnon

The men who could not fight, in a war that didn't seem right. You let them come home, America.

— Waylon Jennings

A thoughtful and well-informed consideration of US government in relation to American society.

— Ian Harris

You can provide better services for less if you get the federal government out of the way.

— Mick Mulvaney

I don't ever want to play the part of a statistic on a government chart.

— The Police

“I believe the term is ‘eminent domain.’ Ah, yes. That means ‘theft by the government,”

— Terry Pratchett

I think politics in general are just like a popularity contest but McCain is just... old.

— D. L. Hughley

Without trust, there can be no genuine peace. Neither in politics, nor in the quiet individuality of the heart and spirit.

— Timothy Zahn

Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don't do that, we really deserve the…

— Alice Walker

In a small budget film, coming from an independent filmmaker, it is not possible financially to get a wider reach unless we…

— Sanjay Mishra

Our point is we don't want to sit in the government and tell you what you have to buy [as a health…

— Paul Ryan

My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a…

— Narendra Modi

In fact, it works the other way: A government as big and bossy as this one is maintained on the backs of…

— Mitch Daniels

For too long, some lazy politicians have engaged leaders of Muslim communities as a shortcut to engaging disenfranchised Muslim citizens.

— Sadiq Khan

If there are such things as political axioms, the propriety of the judicial power of a government being co-extensive with its legislative,…

— Alexander Hamilton

Far too many businesses have been all too eager to lobby for maintaining and increasing subsidies and mandates paid by taxpayers and…

— Charles Koch

The truth is, I feel sorry for the Old Etonians. Everybody should be judged on his or her own merits. Assuming that…

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

Any classification according to a singular identity polarizes people in a particular way, but if we take note of the fact that…

— Amartya Sen

“In outer space you develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and…

— Ryan Holiday

The principle of academic freedom is designed to make sure that powers outside the university, including government and corporations, are not able…

— Judith Butler

The Government is a servant and never should be anything but a servant. The moment the people become adjuncts to government, then…

— Henry Ford

No matter where I go - London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore - I'm always looking to rediscover that land of…

— Thomas Friedman

Neither Obama nor Romney will be able to 'heal' our 'pockets' during the next four years. The only thing I'm sure about…

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

The folks you help won't remember it and the folks you hurt won't ever forget it.

— Bill W. Clayton

Memory is a political act. Forgetfulness is the handmaiden of tyranny.

— James Carroll

No one can be considered untouchable on political grounds.

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Seek ye first the political kingdom and all other else will be added unto it.

— Kwame Nkrumah

In today's world everything is political. We are a statement - our clothes, haircut, the way we act.

— Olga Tokarczuk

Remember, success for a politician is 50% plus one. You don't have to have everybody on board.

— Dick Cheney

“Democracy is a most accommodating and charming form of government, full of variety and diversity,”

— William De Witt Hyde

“The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small”

— Henry Kissinger

When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.

— James Dale Davidson

Mixing pop and politics he asks me what the use is / I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses.

— Billy Bragg

There are no easy solutions for Israel's own governance problems.

— Edgar Bronfman, Sr

The best minds in government? If any were, business would hire them away.

— Ronald Reagan

Look at the Justice Department, it's full of Jews...The lawyers in government are damn Jews.

— Richard M. Nixon

No, I'm not interested in politics. I have zero interest. I have interest in hope and people.

— Jay-Z

We are witnessing the criminalization of conservative politics.

— Tom DeLay

Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.

— Wilhelm Reich