Politics Quotes · Page 313

I don't know when I'm going to have time to be politically active.

— Nancy Reagan

As an MP, it is my job to hold the government to account.

— Clive Lewis

“We have had word that some political groups are calling for the forced abdication of Emperor Kaito.”

— Marissa Meyer

Many of our advances in science and technology were seeded through government.

— Valerie Jarrett

I don't know about politics so much. I'm a professional athlete.

— Khabib Nurmagomedov

No society has ever succeeded without a decent government.

— Robert H. Frank

The Russian government imposed my head on the body of Russian models in straight jackets.

— Jen Psaki

There is a hundred things to single you out for promotion in party politics besides ability.

— Will Rogers

I know politics is emotionally brutal; I've already had experience with the reality of smear campaigns, so I understand there will not…

— Marianne Williamson

The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.

— Karl Kraus

Without the truth of the people, politics degenerates into mere spectacle and democracy declines, leaving demagoguery and cynicism to fill the void.

— Jerry Brown

Absolutely. I think that this is - politics is a tough business. I describe it as a full contact sport. You have…

— John Thune

Religion is all good, but we are almost back to medieval times now, where we are obsessed with going into religious wars…

— Lexi Alexander

Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be…

— Bono

For some reason when it comes to democracy, we seem to think that political knowledge doesn't make any kind of difference or…

— Jason Brennan

Deliberation is not a particular type of speech, but a political act of collective decision-making in consideration of consequences.

— F. David Mathews

If you're going to run around, Ms. Pelosi, and you're going to say Republicans like the war, then can we also assume…

— Rush Limbaugh

“As an American, you make choices every day for others by supporting your government and its excursions or military actions into other…

— Jacquelyn Frank

“I clenched my teeth and fists to stop them biting and scratching these clever men who want no care for the helpless…

— Alasdair Gray

“A bunch of people known as politicians are not going to change anything, for they themselves are second-hand humans, living second-hand lives,…

— Abhijit Naskar

The two greatest things that all men aim at in any free government are liberty and permanency. We have had liberty enough…

— Thomas D

“Sonnet: Political Greatness Nor happiness, nor majesty, nor fame, Nor peace, nor strength, nor skill in arms or arts, Shepherd those herds…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Society,--the only field where the sexes have ever met on terms of equality, the arena where character is formed and studied, the…

— Wendell Phillips

Equality is the heart and essence of democracy, freedom, and justice, equality of opportunity in industry, in labor unions, schools and colleges,…

— A. Philip Randolph

I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.

— Kate Millett

First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?

— Carl Sagan

If you don't believe there's a price for this sweet paradise, just remind me to show you the scars.

— Bob Dylan

Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.

— Mao Zedong

Government can do something for the people only in proportion as it can do something to the people.

— Thomas Jefferson

There's nothing in my background that would have said I was destined to be a senior politician.

— Nicola Sturgeon

“Do not wait for the government to provide solutions to the people when you can be their answer”

— Sunday Adelaja

Any government I lead will continue with the equality of gay and lesbian people.

— David Cameron

The whole human rights structure is based on the accountability of governments.

— Mary Robinson

One of the things about federal politics is that it has been remarkably free of corruption.

— George Brandis

I would say that by virtue of transforming politics, [Dalai Lama] is in fact easily underestimated.

— Pico Iyer

If I contest elections in a federation, I will not get even four votes. It's all politics and money.

— Milkha Singh

I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.

— Frances McDormand

We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government.

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

And after I make a lot of money, I'll be able to afford running for office.

— Anonymous

“The military is the government’s killing machine. The police are a close relative.”

— Steven Magee