Politics Quotes · Page 311

I don't get into heavy political numbers because I don't find them lyrical.

— James Taylor

Government cannot and must not replace private initiative.

— Kim Campbell

Unemployment is a reproach to a democratic government.

— Joan Robinson

To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.

— Benazir Bhutto

Federal government has been a gateway to the middle class for people of color for generations.

— Tom Perez

All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.

— August Wilson

I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.

— Ronald Reagan

The uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality.

— Victoria Woodhull

I think it's totally possible and plausible that racial balkanization is a recurring aspect of the nature of human politics.

— Ross Douthat

I would like to state that my personal opinions are that the people of every country should decide by themselves what kind…

— Julius Rosenberg

Women's art, political art - those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I'm resistant to. But I absolutely define myself…

— Barbara Kruger

Encouraging underground uranium mining on the Colorado Plateau um, the federal government was the only purchaser of uranium ore to try to…

— Tom Udall

I go by the great republican principle, that the people will have the virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and…

— James Madison

I've always believed that conservatism is the politics of reality, and that reality ultimately asserts itself in a reasonably free society, in…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

The U.S. and Canada are two generous governments and we reach out and partner with anyone who believes in foreign aid.

— Bill Gates

“[D]emocracy can itself be as tyrannical as a dictatorship, since it is the extent, not the source, of government power that impinges…

— William F. Buckley Jr

Culture constitutes an essential element of social and political liberation. As people rise up across the Middle East and North Africa, the…

— Tariq Ramadan

I did love that scene in the movie [ "Our Brand Is Crisis"] because it's like "The Wizard of Oz." You see…

— Sandra Bullock

I am concerned about the environment. I love to wear black. I think government is best when it stays out of people's…

— Meghan McCain

It is an assumption brought forth countless of times in various contexts that the world would be better, drifting slower towards the…

— Pentti Linkola

In Germany, under the law everything is prohibited except that which is permitted. In France, under the law everything is permitted except…

— Newton N. Minow

Therefore those governing the State ought primarily to devote themselves to the service of individual groups and of the whole commonwealth, and…

— Pope Leo XIII

“It is a regrettable fact that no government can ever be fully trusted to make the truly right choice when confronted by…

— James Swallow

First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible…

— Anthony Kennedy

The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.

— Sallust

My guide is the Modi government at the Centre. It's my inspiration. I will follow that.

— Yogi Adityanath

The only quality needed for an MP is the ability to write a good letter.

— Harold MacMillan

No one branch of the U.S. government should have supremacy over the other two.

— Chellie Pingree

By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.

— Tacitus

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

— Charles de Gaulle

It's not like we were setting out to make a political statement - we're just a band with opinions.

— Martie Maguire

Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists.

— Maria Montessori

“Our politics are overrun with characters acting at the behest of shadows.”

— Charles M. Blow

Governance is a way of organizing, amplifying, and constraining power.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

My own feeling is that a corporation has no right to have a political or social influence.

— Noam Chomsky

“Having old friends is the politics of last resort.”

— Timothy Snyder

If the world was without politicians, how would we survive without the chaos they create?

— Frederick A Babb

Every citizen has to figure out what kind of government he or she wants.

— Stephen Breyer

Government cannot guarantee much, but it can and should guarantee freedom of opportunity.

— Chris Sununu

The government had to choose between war and shame. They chose shame. They will get war too.

— Winston Churchill