Politics Quotes · Page 312

Those who have been intoxicated with power... can never willingly abandon it.

— Edmund Burke

No person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six.

— Thomas Jefferson

In politics, you have to work very hard, and those who do not want to work cannot be here.

— Nagma

Free enterprise makes people prosperous, all people prosperous, and big government makes people poorer.

— Marco Rubio

We should look back now and then. Our politicians should look back every now and then.

— Max von Sydow

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

— Thomas Jefferson

I don't fancy myself a political commentator. I hate politics. I hate it.

— Glenn Beck

When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.

— Will Durant

“Every cigar rolled by hand carries the pressure of labor, the signature of culture, and the shadow of politics.”

— Sebastian Saviano

There is something about a Republican that you can only stand him just so long; and on the other hand, there is…

— Will Rogers

For me, politics is about passion. It doesn't matter what you know; it's your actions that count. I meet people who say…

— Maxine Peake

Even in political considerations, now-a-days, you have stronger motives to feel interested in the fate of Europe than in the fate of…

— Lajos Kossuth

Among our responsibilities is to make sure that 23 percent of all government contracts go to small businesses. That's about $150 billion…

— Karen Mills

“Breitbart’s pirate crew became tribunes of the rising Tea Party movement and champions of Sarah Palin, with whom Bannon was close, bedeviling…

— Joshua Green

I think the failures of Republican governance led to a distrust of Republican elites, which is fair enough.

— Bill Kristol

“The only truths worth arguing about are those truths that could prevent or lead to circumstances that may bite us in the…

— Criss Jami

All of us can agree that we want government to work as well as possible, and we should all applaud efforts to…

— Chrystia Freeland

The era of appeasement must come to an end. The political and social demands that dissidents are making of the universities do…

— Spiro T. Agnew

While we face economic obstacles that challenge every decision made in Washington, decisions made merely for political gain must stop. It's time…

— Nick Lampson

Nothing is more deceptive or more dangerous than the pretence of a desire to simplify government. The simplest governments are despotisms; the…

— Daniel Webster

The media are doing this, not because they have a sinister motive, but because they love to feel that they are influencing…

— Ben Aaronovitch

The basic problem is not political, it is apolitical and human. One of the most important things to do is to keep…

— Thomas Merton

Health care is one-sixth of our economy. If the government can control that, they can control just about everything. We need to…

— Benjamin Carson

I'm always amazed how many politicians have a very unlikely story, and when I talk to groups of students, I remind them…

— Chellie Pingree

The heck with political correctness. I've never believed in it.

— Bobby Bowden

I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.

— William Weld

“In principle any revolt strengthens the government it fails to overthrow.”

— victor hugo

But revealing yourself as ignorant apparently gives one extraordinary credibility on the left.

— Tammy Bruce

The first sign of tyranny is government's complicity in privatizing the commons for private gain.

— Robert F. Kennedy, Jr

One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties.

— William Weld

When people tap into this politics of resentment, it usually ends ugly.

— John Avlon

Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

— Aristophanes

That realm is never long in quiet, where the ruler is a soldier.

— John Webster

People think of me as a political writer, but I don't think of myself that way.

— Luis Alberto Urrea

Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting.

— Rich Lowry

Politicians attend dinners at hotels with contractors. Bankers discuss interest rates at lunch.

— Jimmy Breslin

I have in general no very exalted opinion of the virtue of paper government.

— Edmund Burke

I'm just not sure I trust the federal government not to trample on civil liberties.

— Tucker Carlson

I don't pick on politicians. They ain't done nothin'.

— Red Skelton

How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?

— Miguel de Cervantes