Politics Quotes · Page 319

I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.

— Al Franken

Color is not a human or a personal reality it is a political reality.

— James A. Baldwin

“The pandemic revealed the incompetence of government.”

— Steven Magee

“His supporters will push him to disaster unless his opponents show where the dangers are.”

— Walter Lippmann

“A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away”

— Barry Goldwater

I don't have political agendas. I have social agendas.

— will.i.am

Maybe that's because guns are sold at a profit, while schools are provided by the government.

— David Boaz

Many a man goes into politics with a fine future and comes out with a terrible past.

— Anonymous

Over the years, online, we've laid down a huge amount of information and data, and we irrigate it with networks and connectivity,…

— David McCandless

Once a person comes to rely on the government for support, that person becomes a socialist through and through.

— James Cook

It was self-serving politicians who convinced recent generations of Americans that we could all stand in a circle with our hands in…

— Paul Harvey

Government is promoting bad behavior... Do we really want to subsidize the losers' mortgages? This is America!

— Rick Santelli

If we do not adhere firmly to the constitution, our governments will not last long and will change frequently.

— Suharto

There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters,…

— Daniel Webster

“Until you realize how easy it is for your mind to be manipulated, you remain the puppet of someone else's game.”

— Evita Ochel

For too long, we have focused on our differences - in our politics and backgrounds, in our race and beliefs - rather…

— Bob Riley

The government will pay certain farmers to not grow corn. Wow. Where's my check? That'd be great. "Hey, what do you do…

— Brian Regan

Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of…

— Peter Benenson

Negro equality, Fudge!! How long in the Government of a God great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue…

— Abraham Lincoln

I keep trying to bring a more professional approach to New Zealand cricket. It's an uphill battle. I stay in the game…

— Glenn Turner

The baby boomers' politics have covered a wide band of silliness, from the Weather Underground to the Timothy McVeigh types. The great…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I also think one of the things that's really hurting us is political activism of any stripe. Michael Jordan had it exactly…

— Edward Allen Bernero

With a small presence of U.S. special forces on the ground in Colombia and in other regional neighbors, we advised government forces…

— Michael Waltz

I think as much as possible, an artist, if he has any kind of social or political concern, has to…expose as much…

— Keith Haring

As a very young poet, I had been brought up on that dogma that politics was bad for poetry.

— Adrienne Rich

The man who can sing when he hasn't got a thing, he's the king of the whole wide world.

— Elvis Presley

When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.

— Jim Hightower

There's a difference between 'political films' and 'films about Iraq.'

— Rod Lurie

The problem with politics isn't the money; it's the power.

— Harry Browne

The U.S. victory in Gulf War was a stirring victory for the forces of aggression.

— Dan Quayle

Environment conservation without stagnating development is the objective of our government.

— Pinarayi Vijayan

I've always been interested in political service and community advocacy.

— Michael Tubbs

Consciousness conceives, governs, constructs, and becomes the activity of the body.

— Deepak Chopra

Republics, like other forms of government, exist in history and can rise and fall.

— Timothy D. Snyder

My administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in government.

— Barack Obama

Revolt is not reform, and one revolutionary administration is not good government.

— Lincoln Steffens

I don't know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians

— Michele Bachmann

It is the aim of good government to stimulate production, of bad government to encourage consumption.

— Jean-Baptiste Say

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

— Voltaire

The well of public opinion has been well and truly poisoned by the Iraq episode.

— David Cameron