Politics Quotes · Page 363

There are two impossibilities in life: "just one drink" and "an honest politician."

— H. L. Mencken

Ambassadors are honest men sent abroad to lie for their countries.

— Henry Wotton

Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and none happy when they are over.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There are two kinds of politics in the world: the politics of love and the politics of fear.

— Anonymous

I don't like politics especially in chess. All I want is promote chess 24/7.

— Susan Polgar

I am committed to curbing the influence of money in our political system.

— William J. Clinton

The closest thing to eternal life on earth is a Government Program

— Ronald Reagan

At 23 years old, I came into politics as a dragon slayer. At 63 years old, I'm going out as a dragon.

— Aaron Broussard

Liberty is not to be found in any form of government; she is in the heart of the free man; he bears…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How…

— Paddy Ashdown

The goal of the government is to guarantee the place of Greece in the eurozone against those who want to undermine it.

— Yiannis Stournaras

I'd say that one area where my political views have remained unchanged is that, I am opposed to the government spying on…

— Tom Morello

In the American 'melting pot,' identity politics wants to smash that pot - to bring us back to the Dark Ages, when…

— Greg Gutfeld

I have always thought of government as a kind of organism with an insatiable appetite for money, whose natural state is to…

— Ronald Reagan

When you see government leaders really bullying business, you know that government's economic policy is failing. They get angry and they get…

— Amity Shlaes

Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.

— Ai Weiwei

“Who, I ask, ever found salvation through the conquests of Alexander? What city was ever more wisely governed because of them, what…

— Flavius Claudius Julianus

The story of Detroit's bankruptcy was simple enough: Allow capitalism to grow the city, campaign against income inequality, tax the job creators…

— Ben Shapiro

“And then I heard the ring of metal on concrete, and I went cold, because one of them had found a piece…

— Rachel Caine

In medicine, it has long been recognized that even a quack remedy that is harmless in itself can be fatal when it…

— Thomas Sowell

Were the radical democratic impulses of the American Revolution still driving US politics, it would be difficult to imagine corporatization of the…

— Ben Manski

“The Enlightenment was not a revolutionary movement; it was not even a political movement. It was a collection of scholars, writers, artists…

— John Hirst

One of the problems with trying to help underdogs, especially with government programs, is that they and everyone else start to think…

— Thomas Sowell

Today's political leaders demonstrate their low opinion of the public with every social law they pass. They believe that, if given the…

— Mark Skousen

In the spring and summer of 1989, a serious political disturbance took place in China.

— Li Peng

I'm a creature of startups. For example, I don't want government interference in the startup ecosystem.

— Michael Arrington

The Obama economy has led to more women dependent on government programs including food stamps.

— Mercedes Schlapp

Champagne is the wine of civilization and the oil of government.

— Winston Churchill

It is no longer acceptable in British politics to be fat or eccentric or religious.

— Ian Hislop

Delhi was not completely a new place for me, but as a political worker, it was a new place.

— Nirmala Sitharaman

The government is just too big, and we have to make it smaller; people are getting lost.

— Stacey Dash

Life in America shows that liberty, paired with law, is not to be feared.

— George W. Bush

“In any case, in the world of politics you can ill afford luxuries such as a clear conscience!”

— Ashwin Sanghi

If we want to move forward, not just the Government but 125 crore Indians will have to do something.

— Narendra Modi

What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?

— Marion Barry

Politicians are like weather vanes. Our job is to make the wind blow.

— David R. Brower

[A] power equal to every possible contingency must exist somewhere in the government . . .

— Alexander Hamilton

There are men running governments who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches.

— Will Rogers

If people are coming to 'Hamilton' to leave their politics behind, you came to the wrong show.

— Brandon Victor Dixon

Rest of my life is more important to me than politics

— Chuka Umunna