Politics Quotes · Page 371

The future of the airlines lay in hauling people, not in hauling mail for the government.

— Anonymous

They believe in teachers unions. We believe in teachers.

— Chris Christie

The press is dishonest, but the political press is especially dishonest.

— Donald Trump

“When politicians and civil servants hear the word culture they feel for their blue pencils.”

— Lionel Esher

“We never raised the morality of the action, because our politics took care of that.”

— Zinzi Clemmons

There were so many candidates on the platform that there were not enough promises to go around.

— Ronald Reagan

If the military contractors are out of Afghanistan, Karzai is out 15 minutes later.

— Rachel Maddow

Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Americans feel frustrated, distanced, and disenfranchised from our elected government. We deserve more: a government in which we truly all have a…

— Eric Swalwell

[For business after WWII ] democracy means getting people to regard government as an alien force that's robbing them and oppressing them,…

— Noam Chomsky

The dull, purblind folly of the very rich men, their greed and arrogance, and the corruption in business and politics, have tended…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Our government shouldn't make promises we cannot keep, but we must keep the promises we've already made.

— Barack Obama

For some reason, men in politics seem to have a bunch of charisma, and women drop around their feet. I haven't noticed…

— Lara Giddings

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

— Theodore Roosevelt

The British government says that for Sinn Fein to be involved in talks the guns must be left at the door.

— Martin McGuinness

Bright graduates will either set up their own companies or come and work for us or a consulting firm or government. But…

— Ana Patricia Botin

“All around us we have the wreckage – metaphorical and real – of all our dreams, our religions, our political ideologies and…

— Douglas Murray

The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human…

— James Madison

Most people in Seoul don't care about the North's belligerent statements: The farther one is from the Korean Peninsula, the more one…

— Andrei Lankov

Our nation was founded on the principle that our government should be of the people, by the people, and for the people…

— Tulsi Gabbard

Technology, under all circumstances, leads to planning; in its higher manifestations it may put the problems of planning beyond the reach of…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

People are stereotypes, they are caricaturized. It comes from both sides of the political aisle, it comes from the press. It's all…

— Hillary Clinton

There is fear of impoverishment as a narrowly based ideological government, infused with medieval religious rectitude, lays waste to the Egyptian economy,…

— Crispin Blunt

“Whenever those immersed in the bureaucratic culture of the age try to think their way through to the moral foundations of what…

— Alasdair MacIntyre

We know that those huge U.S. brands do have political sway.

— M.I.A

You cannot do politics by breaking the society into pieces or creating hatred.

— Rajnath Singh

I don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff.

— Dana Carvey

I'm not a politician and don't want any part of politics.

— Calvin Klein

A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.

— James Reston

“Government is all show when it isn't murder in the dark ... or soldiers in the open.”

— Orson Scott Card

Life is constantly political, it's constantly reminding you that it's political.

— Declan McKenna

“You can learn a lot about government from donkey balls.”

— John Green

Grinding the faces of the poor seems to be the policy of the Greens.

— Jerry Pournelle

It is, of course, the merest truism to say a party is of use only so far as it serves the nation.

— Theodore Roosevelt

“We have a natural resentment toward government, which was how we were born”

— Aaron Sorkin

“If men are good, you don’t need government; if men are evil or ambivalent, you don’t dare have one. ”

— Robert LeFevre

I hate to say that not everything is politics, but not everything is politics.

— Neera Tanden

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“You cannot hang a naughty dog without a bone in front of his nose.”

— Kangoma Kindembo

Corruption in government is an overwhelming problem.

— Tom Fitton