Politics Quotes · Page 328

Maybe someday you will understand, that something for nothing is everybody's plan.

— Bob Dylan

The Democrats have this high level of expectation of what government can do.

— Mark Shields

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

— e. e. cummings

People who don't believe in government are likely to defy our government.

— Bill Moyers

Where we are in politics is running down whatever doesn't agree with you.

— Christopher Michael Cillizza

Nothing penetrates the liberal's sense of moral outrage.

— Bill Whittle

Republican government - self-government by the people - is at the heart of what it means to be free.

— Josh Hawley

China's stock market is inextricably tied to politics.

— Kenneth Fisher

Free speech rights means that government officials are barred from creating lists of approved and disapproved political ideas and then using the…

— Glenn Greenwald

There is nothing anyone can do anyway. The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board…

— Jack Kevorkian

In the rough, a symbol is a sign that stands for something Before a noise, etc., may become a symbol, something must…

— Alfred Korzybski

“It (politician) wants to separate them. And to do so it has chosen the worst, blackest pencil of all - the pencil…

— Zlata Filipović

He's earned all his money himself, with his fists. He didn't steal it like the rest of our politicians. And he'll be…

— Vitali Klitschko

Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could…

— William O. Douglas

You can't create a successful politics of support for public education on the basis of asking voters not to care about skills,…

— Nicholas Lemann

I think the first decision I took when I became a government minister was to reverse the planned closure of Monklands Accident…

— Nicola Sturgeon

What kind of expression is this - "punishing Israel"? Are we a vassal state of yours? Are we a banana republic? Are…

— Menachem Begin

The quality of education today decides the tomorrow of Gujarat... Government may build schools, but the future can be built by the…

— Narendra Modi

Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud stains from any region…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

I'm not talking about just Donald Trump's politics - it's what he's brought up. It's a real conversation. We're just people trying…

— Michael Buble

[Sen. John] Kerry is also a man who opposes the death penalty, wants to restrict access to guns and voted against the…

— David S. Broder

“Marlborough echoed his monarch’s hope that consensus politics could prevail. ‘There is nothing more certain than what you say, that either of…

— Charles Spencer

A government that intended to protect the liberty of the people would not disarm them. A government planning the opposite most certainly…

— Charley Reese

What makes the Universal Declaration an epochal document is first of all its global impetus and secondly the breadth of its claims,…

— John Charles Polanyi

I will not give way because too many previous governments have backed down.

— Francois Hollande

In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Dealing with a government with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult matter.

— John Hay

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The government might as well just legalize weed because coz we all smoke that shit anyway

— MNT Squared

Disclosure of private e-mails from government officials has been a legal issue in many states.

— Bill Dedman

The political solutions proposed against encryption are not going to work against terrorism.

— Pavel Durov

“A woefully corrupt and incompetent government is only a problem to the taxpayer.”

— Lee Broad

When people talk about political correctness, the only element of any value is good manners.

— Paul Johnson

The government is slowly waking up to the scale of the personal tragedy of delayed autism diagnosis.

— Jo Cox

“When my time is up,” I would tell friends, “my dance card is going to be full.”

— George W. Bush

We’re against the state, not government. The state just happens to monopolize the government.

— Stephan Kinsella

Politicians are just a bunch of local bandits, sent by their local voters to raid the public treasury.

— Will Rogers

Communicating with the federal government is like talking to a computer that's crashing.

— Steve Kluger

“Good corporate governance, it's about being proper and prosper.”

— Toba Beta

Lots of folks are forced to skimp to support a government that won't.

— Winston Churchill