Politics Quotes · Page 353

An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

— Voltaire

Republicans are so empty-headed, they wouldn't make a good landfill.

— Jim Hightower

If you don't turn on to politics, politics will turn on you.

— Ralph Nader

Government should do a few things, and do them right

— George W. Bush

A Lewis-led government will always stand up for Canadian farmers and our agriculture sector.

— Leslyn Lewis

Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.

— Tacitus

Aggressive government spending during the Great Recession was absolutely necessary.

— Eric Garcetti

“From DW: I got it. “Here's the thing,” I said. "I'm not going to be the government's bitch.”

— Tamara Rose Blodgett

Our government has made infrastructure upgrade and the creation of smart cities major national priorities.

— Sushma Swaraj

How awful for them [Hitler's victims] to see those swastikas, the SS men and the SA - people we'd never thought of…

— Leni Riefenstahl

Why should a city be mandated to do something by the federal government or state government without the money to do it?

— Richard M. Daley

The Left Front, being an egalitarian political force, has always supported removing untouchability and discrimination in society.

— Pinarayi Vijayan

I'm coming to Washington, D.C., to do the people's work. And the people's work has to do with reducing spending and cutting…

— Ken Buck

Politics might be religion for the Left, but conservatives understand there is more to life than politics.

— Michael J. Knowles

I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.

— Ronald Reagan

“Society is full of possibilities, is this possible to make all to think like children then there will be no politics.”

— Vikram Roy

Intelligence is what allows us to create forms of governance, cure disease, create art and music, discover, dream and love. Intelligence is…

— Bryan Johnson

The backbone of any improvement of governance, its development as well as its protection from any form of wastage or excessiveness, is…

— Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan

“The main aim of education should be to send children out into the world with a reasonably sized anthology in their heads…

— John Mortimer

Now the proposal is yet again another $150 billion before we start to think about a freeze. But $150 billion spent on…

— Eric Cantor

In the old days, money controlled politics. Today, information controls politics. So I think with the advent of the Internet, the power…

— Foster Friess

When governments and other vested interests attack me personally I usually regard it as a vindication, otherwise they would use facts. That's…

— John Pilger

No politician in a European sense is happy with 26 million people unemployed. Nobody can be happy with 6 to 9 million…

— Enda Kenny

Revolutions are spiritual acts. They appear first in people, then in politics and the economy. New people form new structures. The transformation…

— Joseph Goebbels

If I represent the world as it is as harmonious, that's a political position.

— Aleksandar Hemon

Unlike the federal government, most states don't have the option of running a deficit.

— Marcia Angell

Congress has powers, and they are an important check on the other branches of government.

— Nancy Mace

The making of a human likeness on film is a political act.

— Allan Sekula

Some government workers are dedicated and work hard, but most of them are just waiting to retire.

— Wanda Sykes

We need a global parliament, a global government and possibly a global ministry for security.

— Lech Walesa

Restoring faith in government begins with improving our electoral system.

— Dean Phillips

Policy changes like what you desire come from our politicians. So let them know what you think.

— Michelle Singletary

The government ought to stay out of the prayer business.

— Jimmy Carter

We will make it so that a Democrat cannot govern as a Democrat.

— Grover Norquist

I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.

— Jorge Luis Borges

“It's no surprise to him what any government does, least of all his own.”

— Glen Duncan

Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program.

— Ronald Reagan

The United States is not for democracy in Iraq, it's for setting up a puppet government.

— Peter Camejo

The stakes they play for in politics are paper and money. The chips they play with are your life.

— Molly Ivins

I'm a Labour politician, but, you know, I can see decent Tories with good ideas.

— Tony Blair