Politics Quotes · Page 358

Our government should be supporting progress and new technology, especially in health care.

— Dean Phillips

Political assumptions can remain constant for long periods and then change very quickly.

— Jacob Weisberg

Slate is not a political magazine but a lot of what it does is politics.

— David Plotz

Forgiveness is not generally something that you find as a coin to be used by politicians.

— Desmond Tutu

Politics is a fascinating game, because politics is government. It is the art of government.

— Harry S. Truman

When I first started out in politics I was, what you might describe as, a hard right Conservative.

— John Bercow

No group of people who share a political identity march in lockstep.

— Torrey Peters

Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

— Will Rogers

No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation,…

— George Mason

Government is never more dangerous than when our desire to have it help us blinds us to its great power to harm…

— Ronald Reagan

Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better…

— Cal Thomas

In politics, readily dismissing inconvenient people can easily extend to dismissing inconvenient truths about them.

— Daniel Goleman

Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.

— Jesse Jackson

Any big organization can be subverted by governments or multinational special interests. They have the resources to cast doubt and fear over…

— Arlo Guthrie

I think as a consequence of that, there is also a fair amount of uncertainty about engaging in political activity that would…

— Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu

“Beyond manipulation itself there was no object or subject of politics. There was only the darkness that is consummate when gifted minds…

— Timothy Snyder

If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back…

— John Major

Among all the religious persecutions with which almost every page of modern history is stained, no victim ever suffered but for violation…

— Richard Mentor Johnson

When asked if I miss being in government, I usually try to lighten the moment by responding that I awake most days,…

— Michael Hayden

The problem is not with people or churches that are politically active. It is with a party that has gone so far…

— Anonymous

“When culture only rewards the assertion of group identity (black, female, queer etc.), the silent majority will want its slice of the…

— Sohrab Ahrmari

Our Government is committed to pursuing policies and programs which facilitate a further lowering of the interest rates in order to fuel…

— Said Musa

So I called and said, 'Mommy, I'm doing a political film with Jean-Luc Godard. You have to come and sign the contract.'…

— Anna Karina

One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military,…

— Jimmy Carter

If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.

— Rachel Johnson

Sectarian politics gets votes in Iraq. But sectarian government fails in Iraq.

— Ahmed Chalabi

“It is a truism of American politics that no man who can win an election deserves to.”

— Trevanian

I just cannot stand big government controlling people's lives.

— Anonymous

“Politics envelops us like the coils of a snake and no way out but to wrestle with it”

— Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

It is of first importance that the military be subordinate to civilian government

— John Rawls

We've had characters like Trump in American politics forever, characters who trade on xenophobia.

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

The great problem with government is that it never goes bankrupt.

— Jerry Brown

Everyone knows that the Workers' Party governments did much more good than bad for the country.

— Fernando Haddad

It's all sex for me. Politics is sex. Race is sex. It's the novel. It's the novel!

— James Ellroy

You don't want the second-most powerful government on Earth mad at you, if you can avoid it.

— Daryl Morey

To let politics become a cesspool, and then avoid it because it is a cesspool, is a double crime.

— Howard Crosby

You may not be thinking about politics, but politics is thinking about you.

— Kerry Washington

Frankly our government has no idea what they're doing on many, many fronts, folks.

— Donald Trump

I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation.

— William J. Clinton

“Government has every incentive to ration care for the sick and lavish attention on the healthy.”

— Regina Herzlinger