Politics Quotes · Page 378

Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.

— Thomas a Kempis

Still I was concerned that politics would get between us and our POWs.

— Bo Gritz

Truth refuses to be subservient to either politics or the market.

— Gao Xingjian

I've learned that we are responsible for what we do, unless we are politicians or celebrities.

— Nikhil Saluja

People used to say sports and politics are different, but now it is the opposite.

— Antonio Inoki

“Though my stomach is only the size of a pea, I could eat two politicians’ brains.”

— Jarod Kintz

The killer bees have gone, like rats deserting the Titanic.

— Geraldo Rivera

Men are suspicious; prone to discontent: Subjects still loathe the present Government.

— Robert Herrick

My husband is in politics and my kids are already a campaign organ for him and I really love being their mother.

— Kerry Kennedy

One of the most fascinating aspects of politician-watching is trying to determine to what extent any politician believes what he says.

— Gore Vidal

The second a political consultant tries to play dirty tricks, it will backfire, and it will hurt that candidate.

— Nikki Haley

I am more or less happy when being praised, not very comfortable when being abused, but I have moments of uneasiness when…

— Arthur Balfour

Indeed, in a free government almost all other rights would become worthless if the government possessed power over the private fortune of…

— John Marshall

“That’s how social standards work for the left: If you have the right politics, you can get away with anything. If you…

— Ben Shapiro

The disasteris not the money, although the money will be missed. The disaster is the disrespect--this belief that the arts are dispensable,…

— Twyla Tharp

“My actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies involved, despite the government's false claims. - Harry…

— Harry Hariom Choudhary

My focus and that of all members of the Government responsible for delivering services to the public is to make sure that…

— Estelle Morris

“A government of five hundred country attornies and obscure curates is not good for twenty-four millions of men, though it were chosen…

— Edmund Burke

Well people often ask me how I felt growing up with a father who was a politician and who was often away.…

— Alexander Downer

Being on the left is supposed to be about unbounded optimism, a belief that what is deemed politically impossible by the 'sensible…

— Owen Jones

As you may know, I'm the co-founder of a political organization called Real Justice. Our goal is to help elect progressive, reform-minded…

— Shaun King

There are plenty of team players in government who do whatever the leader says. There are too few difficult members, who have…

— David Brooks

“[M]onarchy was, or ought to be, not so much absolute as mitigated by the principle of ius politicum , supporting a mixed…

— Patrick Collinson

“The fracture between theology and oikonomia, being and action, insofar as it makes the praxis free and 'anarchic', opens in fact, at…

— Giorgio Agamben

So, my friends, in a week or so the Governor-General will swear in a new government.

— Tony Abbott

Government can take your money at gunpoint; businesses have to persuade you.

— Bill Whittle

Politics presents few win-win situations for partisans on either side.

— Michael J. Knowles

“Abstain from reading comedy or other government economic statistics.”

— Jarod Kintz

The prime minister's job is to captain his team, his party and his government.

— John Bercow

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

— Albert Camus

“They're not the best women covering politics, They're the best reporters covering politics.”

— Katy Tur

Global stability - economic as well as political - is at risk.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

''Politics is a bullshit system of control created by man to farm its sheep.''

— Jeremy Limn

It is my mission to put sensible and evidence-based information above politics and exaggeration.

— Carl Hart

A woman must combine the role of mother, wife and politician.

— Emma Bonino

Johnny's in the basement, mixin' up the medicine...I'm on the pavement, thinkin' about the government.

— Bob Dylan

“If you can't change the world without office, you definitely can't change it in office.”

— Abhijit Naskar

The United States is a place where the men govern, but the women rule.

— John Brown

Government does not create jobs, it only creates the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.

— Mitch Daniels

If a person with a rural accent says 'I don't know much about politics,' zip your pocket.

— Donald Rumsfeld