Politics Quotes · Page 377

I have knocked on the door of this man's soul and found someone home.

— Zell Miller

Politics is a contact sport, and certainly heads butt from time to time.

— Nicole Malliotakis

I will deal with the politicians in a political way and with the nonpoliticians in a nonpolitical way.

— Muqtada al Sadr

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.

— Edmund Burke

I pledge undying hostility to any government restrictions on the free minds of the people.

— Thomas Jefferson

It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes.

— Svetlana Alliluyeva

Politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live.

— Maynard Jackson

Music that speaks of politics is less listened to than the music of partying, but it's still there.

— Gregory Porter

Government is, at every level, a means to gather in the labor and wealth of the people, and then instruct the people…

— Jeff Baxter

The greatness of America has grown out of a political and social system and a method of control of economic forces distinctly…

— Herbert Hoover

I think people are quite refreshed with politicians who aren't concerned with what Arctic Monkeys track they like, but with the day-to-day,…

— Bill Bailey

Government buffer-stock schemes are rife with politics, and instead of generating profits from buying low and selling high, they tend to generate…

— Steve Hanke

In 1995, the Paul Keating Labor government commissioned an inquiry into the forcible removal of Aboriginal children.

— Richard Flanagan

Obviously, whenever the government is getting involved with speech, it gives me a lot of pause. I have a background as a…

— Brianna Wu

I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for…

— A. N. Wilson

I have no plans to seek asylum in the U.S. or elsewhere. I have not thought about citizenship. I love my country,…

— Feyisa Lilesa

“if we believe that murder is wrong and not admissible in our society, then it has to be wrong for everyone, not…

— Helen Prejean

I think the government lost control over fiscal policy in UPA-2. But it is possible to suggest that the momentum of the…

— Sanjaya Baru

Several generations of high school students have grown up ignoring and disbelieving everything they've heard from government and police about drugs, including…

— Ann Shulgin

We need a mobilized and active civil society using its purchasing power to demand sustainable products and practices. It is also essential…

— Guilherme Leal

[T]he power system continues only as long as individuals try to get something for nothing. The day when a majority of individuals…

— Antony C. Sutton

In other words, "speaking truth" as a social movement may move you forward in some ways, but to really lock in and…

— Jill Stein

One day while Lloyd George was making a political speech before a big crowd, a heckler yelled, "Wait a minute, Mr. George.…

— David Lloyd George

I'm not looking to cut massive taxes and to reduce the...the revenues going to the government. My...my number-one principal is, there will…

— Mitt Romney

I don't think politics just happens in Parliament. It happens on the streets and in classrooms.

— Caroline Lucas

I'm a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.

— Golda Meir

You don't want lopsided government. You don't want one side running roughshod over the other.

— William Safire

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.

— Stephen Leacock

We need to find a way of having a conversation across the parties on how you fund local government.

— Johann Lamont

Go and try to start your own government in the United States today and you'll be squashed very quickly.

— Peter Diamandis

The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.

— John Paul Stevens

“The business of the government is the business of the people.”

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“The news is always a good resource for developing quotes.”

— Steven Magee

Please understand what the IRS scandal is about: Using the government to shut down opponents

— Dennis Prager

the apathy and inattention of the average citizen is beyond comprehension.

— Abigail McCarthy

We are fighting to save a great and precious form of government for ourselves and for the world.

— Franklin D Roosevelt

Israeli government & the neocons want US to bomb Iran.

— Ron Paul

That is the best Government, which best provides for war.

— Algernon Sidney

Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable.

— Charles Edison

I have great ambitions for when I get out of government. I will watch a broader range of stuff.

— Susan Rice