Politics Quotes · Page 369

It's not so much about the cause, it's about feeling superior to political opponents.

— Glenn Reynolds

Laws always lose in energy what the government gains in extent.

— Immanuel Kant

“Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Politics is not a tit-for-tat game. It's not 'I helped you, now you help me.'

— Amanda Knox

Judges are appointed often through the political process

— Stephen Breyer

The House of Lords is a model of how to care for the elderly.

— Frank Field

We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.

— Kin Hubbard

We must govern from the middle, or we will not be able to govern at all.

— Tom Daschle

When the government's boot is on your throat, whether it is a left boot or a right boot is of no consequence.

— Gary Lloyd

The very concept of law that protects us from tyranny has been lost. No longer the people's shield, law has become a…

— Paul Craig Roberts

“All we do is disguise our weak politics behind a powerful bureaucracy and disguise our powerful bureaucracy behind weak political decision making.”

— Ryan Gelpke

We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus…

— Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani

Our government is just way too interested in mucking around in Silicon Valley by creating and enforcing rules based on little or…

— Michael Arrington

Microeconomics: The study of who has the money and how I can get my hands on it.Macroeconomics: The study of which government…

— Gary North

For years governments have been promising more than they can deliver, and delivering more than they can afford.

— Paul Martin

Mr Corbyn, I accuse you of failing to do your duty by not opposing in any real sense our government on the…

— Gina Miller

I just don't have the heart for it. I just will not spend any more time focused on political games as opposed…

— Annamie Paul

We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government's power to tax. No tinkering with this, that, or the other…

— Frank Chodorov

If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from…

— George Washington

“There is, in fact, no need to drag politics into literary theory: as with South African sport, it has been there from…

— Terry Eagleton

Man is not the enemy of man, but through the medium of a false system of Government. Instead, therefore, of exclaiming against…

— Thomas Paine

“McNarney relayed a Soviet complaint that he was too slow in disbanding and confining several German units in his sector of military…

— Ladislas Farago

I think very highly of Expo and all is going well. We've seen big problems with [corruption] scandals [at local government level],…

— Franca Sozzani

I've been able to see some very impressive people that are in politics, and I've been able to see a lot more…

— Donald Trump, Jr

Governments getting involved in sports activities would ultimately damage sports.

— Kapil Sibal

Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection.

— Italo Calvino

The national task that had been incumbent upon me for 18 years is hereby confirmed.

— Charles De Gaulle

“Political pundits are under professional obligation to regard the obvious as being too obvious.”

— P. J. O'Rourke

You can't be for big government, big taxes and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy.

— Ronald Reagan

Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.

— Thomas Paine

“The end result was that corporations practically were the governments these days. Sprawled”

— Damian Connolly

A government official is a man who has risen from obscurity to something worse.

— Pat Robertson

[All governments] get into a rut where every potentially good story turns into a bad one.

— Nick Clegg

Death is the most convenient time to tax rich people.

— David Lloyd George

Technology will move faster than governments, so don't legislate before you understand the consequences

— Eric Schmidt

Democratic government requires the consent of the governed.

— John McDonnell

“There is entirely too much tut-tutting in this realm, if you ask me.”

— George R.R. Martin

If everybody just stops caring about politics, we're going to lose the reins on our government.

— Mark Manson

E = mc2 if the government doesn't get its hands on it first.

— Vikrant Parsai

Everyone thinks politics will just go on the way it is. I don't agree.

— Robert Harris