Politics Quotes · Page 360

Politics is too big a game to feel the absence of a Kamal Haasan.

— Kamal Haasan

The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

— Fidel Castro

I'm a doctor and a politician. Weapons are foreign to me.

— Ayad Allawi

God has no role to play in politics except to make sure politicians go where they belong. To hell.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Politicians have conflicting values but not conflicting knowledge.

— Louis B. Rosenberg

I've been in politics a long time and the only way you survive is by getting the hide of a rhino.

— Emily Thornberry

The government should always be the one defending civil liberties.

— Tim Cook

We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.

— P. J. O'Rourke

“What is above all needed is to let the meaning choose the word, and not the other way around. In prose, the…

— George Orwell

Almost any government activity can also be seen as taking property without just compensation. The basic model of an unconstitutional aking would…

— Michael Kinsley

I don't want the chair of the government because it will be controlled by the U.S. and I don't want to be…

— Muqtada al Sadr

Under both the welfare state and communism, the responsibility for the welfare, security, and prosperity of the people is presumed to rest…

— Leonard Read

Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions.

— Albert Einstein

“Without an opportunity, their abilities would have been wasted, and without their abilities, the opportunity would have arisen in vain.”

— Machiavelli Niccolo

Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission…

— Alexander Herzen

I wasn't interested in politics. My attitude about it was, I can't make a difference no matter what I do. And the…

— Chris Jordan

As the president of Estonia, I represent the only truly digital society which actually has a state; almost all our citizens' interactions…

— Kersti Kaljulaid

Amazon is certainly not a perfect company. However, doctors, teachers, engineers, journalists, politicians, and labor unions are also on a continuum of…

— John Mackey

Sometimes I get slammed because I work at Fox and I am black. People are like, 'How could you work there? Who…

— Harris Faulkner

I really worry about these political people that have no personal life. If there's nothing that's lovely, and if there's nothing that's…

— Arundhati Roy

“You see, it is my passionately held belief that the right to possess property is at best a contingent one. When disparities…

— Mohsin Hamid

So much of what we see and hear about the Middle East focuses on what we call politics, which is essentially ideology.…

— Annia Ciezadlo

America's greatness is due in no small measure to our system of government, in which power and authority are deliberately divided. The…

— Richard Allen Epstein

Until the 20th century, medicine was more like politics than physics. Its forecasts were often bogus and its record grim. In the…

— Dominic Cummings

In a democratic society, we politicians have to accept criticism, especially when it is founded.

— Enrique Pena Nieto

“This is love not business or politics. I love someone. How can I replace her with someone else?”

— Pramod Verma

Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting, the government cannot govern.

— Walter Lippmann

Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.

— Barry Goldwater

Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians.

— Paulo Coelho

Envy is always referred to by its political alias, 'social justice.

— Thomas Sowell

My aspiration is not to be loved. It is that my government be respected and credible.

— Mario Monti

“War is merely the continuation of politics by other means”

— Carl von Clausewitz

The wise use of leisure, it must be conceded, is a product of civilization and education.

— Bertrand Russell

Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience.

— Callie Khouri

No one is to blame for the breakdown in trust between politics, media and the public.

— Tony Blair

Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.

— Freeman Dyson

“The only way to combat extremist ideas of religion is for government to teach the right religion.”

— Karen Elliott House

I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.

— Anthony Trollope

The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.

— Joseph Sobran

Governments do not like to face radical remedies; it is easier to let politics predominate.

— Barbara Tuchman