Politics Quotes · Page 365

Sinn Fein say, "The British government are buggers".

— Eddie Mair

Nobody walks away with everything they want in politics.

— Pete Hoekstra

Sooner or later, a society of sheep must create a government of wolves.

— Bertrand de Jouvenel

I think in the world of politics run by the left, men have been chickified.

— Rush Limbaugh

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

— Dick Armey

It's OK to not be political unless your country is falling apart.

— Rickie Lee Jones

In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians.

— Rand Paul

I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.

— Al Franken

In its narrowest acceptation, order means obedience. A government is said to preserve order if it succeeds in getting itself obeyed.

— John Stuart Mill

I choose to worship not believing in God and government should not thrust a religious idea down my throat.

— Michael Newdow

In the era of imperialism, businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked…

— Hannah Arendt

I want to make sure we are presenting to the South Australian people a Government that is open and accountable. I want…

— Jay Weatherill

“Gay diversity is like the Village People. You can all wear different stupid outfits as long as you sing the same stupid…

— Jack Malebranche

Totalitarian rule marks the sharpest contrast imaginable with political rule, and ideological thinking is an explicit and direct challenge to political thinking.

— Bernard Crick

The Iranian government intends to use the nuclear program for peaceful purposes, but must convince international public opinion of that.

— Shirin Ebadi

I believe that politics takes a much different set of skills than science. Science is about getting to the truth. Politics is…

— Stanley B. Prusiner

“My argument in this book is that embracing the idea of the subject-in-process, far from depoliticizing feminism, breathes new political life into…

— Moya Lloyd

“I am not arguing that everything is political, which would, by making politics ubiquitous, render it a meaningless category. I am also…

— Moya Lloyd

“It wasn’t just sports announcers and political pundits who radically revised their narratives, or shifted focus, so that their stories seemed to…

— Michael Lewis

I think it's fine that there are five million people who are watching [politics on TV], and obviously I'm happy they are…

— William Kristol

“In our time mass or collective production has entered our economics, our politics, even our religion, so that some nations have substituted…

— John Steinbeck

It's easy to complain about the obvious reality that our political media are completely corrupted and engage in propaganda, not journalism. But…

— Mollie Hemingway

If there's one thing I'm not going to apologise for as the leader of the Liberal Democrats in government after 60 or…

— Nick Clegg

I was once a welfare recipient and am very aware of the successes and failures of this critical safety net. There are…

— Gwen Moore

“The Rebellion was gone, and a new government grew swiftly—if clumsily—in its place.”

— Chuck Wendig

A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.

— Adam Cohen

Corpocracy is large-scale corporate America's tendency to be like the government bureaucracy.

— Richard Darman

The government is a giant logjam in the eternal river of human potential.

— Stefan Molyneux

You cannot fight against future. Time is on its side.

— William E. Gladstone

The only thing that can change Japan is a change in government.

— Katsuya Okada

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

— Ronald Reagan

To a large extent, the political walls are crumbling.

— Robert Greene

Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness.

— Thomas Paine

Political campaigns are the graveyard of real ideas and the birthplace of empty promises.

— Teresa Heinz

The point of a political party is to attract a broad base of members and activists and lots of them.

— James Cleverly

We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.

— William Howard Taft

I think the Chinese government is doing a great job right now.

— Alex Chiu

To every politician who is taking donations from the NRA, shame on you.

— Emma Gonzalez

One thing is clear: Our governments have too many laws.

— Kat Timpf

I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law.

— Fisher Ames