Politics Quotes · Page 376

No government body is more notorious for over-legislation than the Department of Trade and Industry.

— Charles Kennedy

Politicians say more taxes will solve everything, and the band played on.

— The Temptations

I can't stand politicians who wear God on their sleeves.

— Tony Blair

I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.

— Vicky Hartzler

Like air pollution, flood risk is a threat that government should be protecting us against.

— Barry Gardiner

“The police are a reflection of their corrupt government employer.”

— Steven Magee

I started my political life in the Resistance. It was there that I had my first responsibility.

— Francois Mitterrand

The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.

— Rutherford B. Hayes

Nine out of every 10 large corporations and government agencies have been attacked by computer intruders.

— Kevin Mitnick

It's the way the business works, you're not just an actor, you're a diplomat and a publicist and a politician, and there…

— Wentworth Miller

As an advisor, I can say what I want. If I were a politician, I would constantly have to compromise, and I'm…

— Azim Premji

While the federal government is required by law to document publicly its wiretapping of phone lines, it is not required to do…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to…

— Frank Herbert

We have provided capital here with a couple of institutions recently. The Federal government did that in the '30s for the RFC…

— Warren Buffett

If you want to learn about the whole government and how it operates, the Appropriations Committee is the best place to learn…

— John J. Rooney

In Britain, we have strict spending limits for elections. It's what has kept Britain from following the path of American politics, where…

— Christopher Wylie

The thing that happens is that politicians run on tough-on-crime rhetoric. You appeal to the public and say, 'Let's put more money…

— Eugene Jarecki

Political action involves mental vulgarity, not merely because it entails the occurrence and support of those who are mentally vulgar, but because…

— Michael Joseph Oakeshott

People send me e-mails saying, "You're a movie critic. You don't know anything about politics." Well, you know what, I'm 60 years…

— Roger Ebert

I come from a middle-class family, where you grow up thinking about government service. But when I went to Harvard, I saw…

— Naveen Tewari

I saw how the Government was run there [in Africa] and I saw where black people were running the banks. I saw,…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it…

— George Washington

For most people, political activity is a secondary activity - that is to say, they have something else to do beside attending…

— Michael Joseph Oakeshott

A dialogue sounds like a great idea, but we don't think the government actually wants one. The royal family lied in 2011…

— Zainab al-Khawaja

Politics and music don't necessarily go hand in hand. They just do for me...

— Steve Earle

It is an expensive government program with the power to kill people.

— L. Brent Bozell, Jr

For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.

— Anonymous

What I always try to do is make the political personal.

— Robert Greenwald

People want a grounded government. They want a government that's going to be responsible to them.

— Carl Paladino

There are many brilliant people in the civil service and politics.

— Dominic Cummings

Politics is a dirty business, but if you do not do politics, politics will be done to you.

— Will Shetterly

“Kujenga urafiki na wanasiasa wakati mwingine ni kitu kizuri. Wanasaidia kurahisisha mambo.”

— Enock Maregesi

Milton was the first person who really experimented with putting politics into sonnets.

— Robert Hass

I had a really fun career in TV right after I left politics.

— Jon Lovett

Compassion is good but politicians have turned compassion into the welfare state.

— Thomas Sowell

You should govern not by partisanship, but by leadership.

— Kevin Faulconer

Sometimes momentous government action leaves everyone uncertain about the next move.

— Neal Katyal

Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom.

— Jim Hightower

What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“But mom's been depressed ever since her last boyfriend turned out to be a Republican.”

— Meg Cabot