Politics Quotes · Page 329

There are only two questions about government. How much do you want? How much can you stand?

— James Cook

I know people don't like America very much, but the one thing it's very good on is local government.

— Heather Brooke

“Freedom exists only where people take care of the government.”

— Woodrow Wilson

Governments can inflate their way out of debt, but that has consequences, doesn't it?

— Kent Conrad

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

— Sydney Pollack

Anyone who seeks to be involved in politics should join hands with America.

— Muqtada al Sadr

I would absolutely never use the federal government to enforce the law of using marijuana

— Ron Paul

Americans overthrew governments only when economic interests coincided with ideological ones.

— Stephen Kinzer

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against…

— Thomas Jefferson

As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human…

— Paul Wellstone

“The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Free enterprise is a rough and competitive game. It is a hell of a lot better than a government monopoly.

— Ronald Reagan

Governments have always played an important role in energy investment, but this role has been increasing due to both geography and technology.

— Fatih Birol

Our legal and political culture has created a bias in the law that borders on censorship against reading, displaying, or quoting the…

— Ralph E. Reed, Jr

We live in a country that talks about being the home of the brave and the land of the free, and we…

— Bryan Stevenson

“Politics is the moat, the walls, beyond which lie the barbarians. Fail to keep them at bay, and everything burns.”

— Charles Krauthammer

Whether as a radical student, a community organizer or a far left politician, Barack Obama's ideology has been based on a vision…

— Thomas Sowell

“just received a letter from the Government declaring that my bedroom has become a Protected Nature Reserve for several species of endangered…

— James Warwood

Clearly, some of the reason people embrace alternatives and reject vaccines is that they are angry and mistrustful of government and of…

— Michael Specter

There's no doubt that what has emerged in the years after 9/11, unlike the situation in Britain, there were practices sanctioned in…

— Douglas Alexander

“I think the purpose of government is for a population to accomplish its mutually agreed-upon goals without every citizen having to accomplish…

— Robert Peate

Yes, we all know that there's a good chance the missiles won't work properly when the government people finally come to get…

— Shaun Tan

There is scarcely anything more important in the government of men than the exact - I will ever say pedantic - observance…

— Winston Churchill

“In order to avoid undesirable criticism, how the organization is controlled and directed should not be widely advertised,” Charles wrote, arguing for…

— Jane Mayer

Nixon was the beginning of people not trusting politics.

— Daryl Hall

I have never been driven by partisan politics, only a desire to better the lives of my constituents.

— Jeff Van Drew

The last thing I wanted to do was put politics into my music... because music was my escape.

— Gloria Estefan

WikiLeaks is what happens when the entire US government is forced to go through a full-body scanner.

— Evgeny Morozov

The core threat to democracy is not in the White House, it's the [Bush] haters themselves.

— David Brooks

The biggest problem was the politicians knew nothing about fighting a war.

— R. Lee Ermey

I'm a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.

— Billy Joel

The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government.

— Mitt Romney

Is there a way to discuss climate change without politics or religion getting in the way?

— Don Cheadle

Roller-skates and disco are a lot of fun, I'm much too young and stupid to operate a gun.

— Frank Zappa

“Gandhi Topi' is no longer an attire of the pacifist.”

— Mukesh Kwatra

Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one.

— Herbert Hoover

Howard Dean knows about as much about the South as a hog knows about Sunday.

— Zell Miller

I probably pay more attention to politics than what I used to.

— Kano

Politics has become infused with narcissism in America.

— John Oliver

“It is imperative that we replace those who think they own this country, with those who built it.”

— Alec Baldwin