Politics Quotes · Page 375

Self-government relies, in the end, on the governing of the self.

— George W. Bush

“The absence of symbols in our life debases it as much as any government can...”

— Josephin Peladan

It is unlikely Yanukovich won. If he did, his government made it impossible to determine.

— Bob Schaffer

Tell the politicians and the hustlers: live and let live.

— James Brown

Allowing the private sector rather than the government to allocate capital is crucial to growth.

— Scott Bessent

I'm still rebelling against the system, but now I'm rebelling through politics instead of dancing.

— Bez

A miserable politics awaits us when the irreligious rot flows downstream.

— Michael J. Knowles

Asking politicians to give up a source of money is like asking Dracula to forsake blood.

— Cal Thomas

Politics can be a factor neither in shaping Islam nor directing Muslims' acts and attitudes in Islam's name.

— Fethullah Gulen

Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government?

— Voltaire

Obviously any export of uranium to India could only occur within an appropriate international framework to be negotiated by the commonwealth government.

— Jay Weatherill

You have to deal with the reality that in the political process, people are going to vote based on what they're hearing…

— Marco Rubio

“They greatest revolutionary act is not to oppose the government, but to oppose your parents, spouse and friends, and risk being alone,…

— Robin Sacredfire

The literary culture, if you examine it, the high literary culture is that which preserves the government and you know it's really…

— Kathy Acker

Where Reagan channeled disenchantment with overweening government, Obama symbolized America's transformation into a multiracial country.

— Jacob Weisberg

Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the…

— George McGovern

The presidential candidates are offering prescriptions for everything from Iraq to healthcare, but listen closely. Their fixes are situational and incremental. Meanwhile,…

— Anonymous

I'm incredibly proud that no matter where you live in New South Wales, whether in the regions or the city, you're seeing…

— Gladys Berejiklian

I've dealt with Democrats and Republicans all my life, and somebody said, "Oh, do you have that much experience politically?" You know,…

— Donald Trump

“What interests me, personally, is work which in some way, speaks the truth to power…I don’t think we speak the truth to…

— Irvine Welsh

I do not desire to give myself any fresh political label. Though the formation of the Union of Democratic Control it has…

— Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede

Shared governance is often the critical element that is missing in Asian universities, no matter how talented the faculty may be. Either…

— Henry Rosovsky

What has worked for America is not caring about how the rich are doing, or the politics of envy. What's worked for…

— Anthony Scaramucci

“Trump said something to me that crystallized his view of politics and explains, to my mind, much of his subsequent difficulties. “I…

— Joshua Green

Feminism needs a political program because gender inequality has been fostered by political decisions.

— Stephanie Coontz

I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity.

— Bob Dylan

Governance allows organizations to...achieve unprecedented automation.

— Dick Taylor

Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.

— Benito Mussolini

No one should be appointed to political office if he is a seeker after it.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Am I the only person covering politics who ever noticed that Newt Gingrich is actually a nincompoop?

— Molly Ivins

The smartest people in Washington are the political reporters. They write about their inferiors.

— Joseph Heller

I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.

— Anonymous

The government of Iran has no problem with the American nation.

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Truth is I don't think God on a daily basis. I think politics, science.

— Peter Mullan

“Certainly, I approve of political opinions, but there are people who do not know where to stop.”

— Victor Hugo

How can we be isolating ourselves when it's 16 to 3 in NATO for what we want to do?

— Brit Hume

We cannot be mere consumers of good governance, we must be participants; we must be co-creators.

— Rohini Nilekani

The money that government spends is your money, not government's, and you know how to spend it better.

— Carlos Lopez-Cantera

Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.

— Vladimir Lenin