Politics Quotes · Page 372

I was a political science major in college because that's where my head was.

— Jeffrey Wright

Institutionalized, I live my life a product made to crumble.

— Tupac Shakur

Politics is the shadow cast on society by big business.

— John Dewey

The energy sector presents exceptional opportunities for governments and investors.

— Fatih Birol

Using political tools to change social conditions won't work.

— Ziggy Marley

I don't represent a group, a trend or a political party, but rather everyone.

— Amr Moussa

He [Harry S. Truman] loved politicians - even Republicans.

— Margaret Truman Daniel

“There was a time I thought I can trust the Government”

— Zybejta Beta Metani' Marashi

They say when good people come to power, everybody enjoy happiness, but when bad people rule, people stay in hiding. Why staying…

— Ricky Wayn D Zangako

The freedom of the press is on of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by a despotic…

— Thomas Jefferson

It is a misnomer to call a government republican in which a branch of the supreme power is independent of the nation.

— Thomas Jefferson

“Good actors, including political actors, do not deal in unrealities. Rather, they create realities that matter – perceptions, aspirations, allegiances.”

— George will

The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked ... and like any other junkie, he'sa bummer…

— Hunter S. Thompson

Politics, by definition, is risk averse. Perhaps that's why America was so awestruck when Barack Obama ended the Black vs White debate…

— Barkha Dutt

Regardless of how people love to deride politicians, democracy is not an easy gig. My decisions, views and heartfelt principles are dismissed…

— Jess Phillips

“The political vision of the religious right is for the most part an individualistic politics of righteousness, not a communal politics of…

— Marcus J. Borg

“My reading of American religious history is that religion always functions best from the margins of society and not in the councils…

— Randall Balmer

“To understand the nature and quantity of government proper for man, it is necessary to attend to his character. As Nature created…

— Thomas Paine

The more I study the things of the mind the more mathematical I find them. In them as in mathematics it is…

— Hippolyte Taine

A part of me is a liberal New Yorker involved in politics and certain attitudes about movies. I kind of lost my…

— Doug Liman

I am not a politician going around bragging about family values or putting myself on some ridiculous virtuous pedestal. I write comedy.…

— Steve Coogan

“If you take political candidates as a population sample, then the United States is a Third World country. Everyone grows up poor,…

— Anonymous

Any government is evil if it carries within it the tendency to deteriorate into Tyranny. The danger of such deterioration is more…

— Albert Einstein

“In the end, everyone came to the conclusion that however ungainly, however inefficient, however elliptical ASEAN's ways are, it's still better than…

— George Yeo

Every family in India has been affected in one way or another by the anti-people Modi government.

— M. K. Stalin

To say Congress is spending like drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors.

— Ronald Reagan

“tired of status quo politics and wanted real change in the world in which they were living.”

— Bernie Sanders

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

— Aesop

“True unalienable rights do not require one to trample other unalienable rights.”

— J.S.B. Morse

If you're looking for the phony in American politics, you could do worse than follow the money.

— Ben Fountain

So relieved to hear Step Up: Revolution has a political/social message.

— Gillian Jacobs

ARENA, n. In politics, an imaginary rat-pit in which the statesman wrestles with his record.

— Ambrose Bierce

No matter what you experience in life, it incorporates political tendencies, and in so many ways.

— John Lydon

Political interest [can] never be separated in the long run from moral right.

— Thomas Jefferson

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

— William E. Gladstone

“There is no one more sinister or dangerous than an ambitious yet characterless Politician!”

— Robert Anthony Kerr

The people of America are a people of property; almost every man is a freeholder.

— Thomas Paine

It is impossible to bargain collectively with the government.

— George Meany

I don't know a lot about politics, but I can recognise a good party man when I see one.

— Mae West

If I get elected, my government will promote a culture of acceptance and non-violence in the country.

— Ashraf Ghani