Politics Quotes · Page 382

“Revolution - In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.”

— Ambrose Bierce

“[Stump speeches] are to oratory what a stump is to a tree.”

— Jon Stewart

Private sector cannot substitute the role of the government in primary education.

— Azim Premji

I've always believed, since my first time running for office, that good government is good politics.

— Josh Shapiro

WIFE, What a man blames things on when he can't figure a way to blame the government;

— Nikhil Saluja

In city hall and in local government, you have to get things done without drama.

— Jim Gray

Politics is not an issue whether you like or dislike , but every citizen must involve.

— Khem Veasna

“Sucking the fun out of life has always been an important component of politics.”

— P.J. O'Rourke

President Obama is the best-known politician to be exploring the possibilities of new technologies to converse with the people. Others must follow…

— Eduardo Paes

My three years in politics was very instructive about the way in which the appetite for political power can destroy a human…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

As a one nation government on the side of working people we are determined that everyone who is entitled to the National…

— Nick Boles

The best way to appreciate our political process is to volunteer for a campaign and support a candidate you believe in.

— Rob McKenna

“The whole political mess, the universal squalor, the essential pettiness of mankind oppressed him and he’d submerged himself in work and writing…

— Laird Barron

I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and capitalists alone, are guilty of war. Oh no, the little man is…

— Anne Frank

I'm not involved in politics, and I've never had any political role. I've never been in office. I've never taken any public…

— Isabel dos Santos

Beto is not a transformational political saviour. He is a hypocritical hack who's so lightweight he goes where the wind blows even…

— Lisa Kennedy Montgomery

What are the policy implications of the government and this fantasy Islam, what are the policy implications of a United States government…

— Rush Limbaugh

Nothing whatever but the constitutional law, the political structure, of these United States protects any American from arbitrary seizure of his property…

— Rose Wilder Lane

The real challenge is figuring out how the United States can regain control of its future from its new oligarchy and restore…

— Charles Ferguson

Even as I've become more reticent about the political possibilities of the academic space, I want to note that students have played…

— Joshua Clover

There was a time, before I was in graduate school, when political philosophy pretty much ceased to exist. The positivists thought there…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

And if Sarah Palin whose Web site put and today scrubbed bull's-eyes targets on 20 Representatives, including Gabby Giffords, does not repudiate…

— Keith Olbermann

We will have gone from men telling us condescendingly to not bother our pretty little heads about important things like politics, to…

— Marianne Williamson

If I was to really get at the burr in my saddle, it's not politics - and this is, I think, probably…

— Jon Stewart

I want to be part of a government that reaches across the whole of the country.

— Amber Rudd

We need a government that takes climate change seriously, one that doesn't shunt it to the side-lines.

— Layla Moran

The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury.

— George Washington

If you want to know about governments, all you need to know is two words: Governments lie.

— I. F. Stone

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.

— H. L. Mencken

Democrats proposing success in Iraq by political solution.

— John F. Kerry

When you have the demand, you can change the government policies that create McDonald's and junk food.

— Kimbal Musk

Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers.

— Anonymous

If you add up all the promises any politicians makes, the math doesn't work.

— Wilbur Ross

The country needs a leader like Modi. He should come to the national level politics.

— Paresh Rawal

Only those who vote politicians into power have the right to depose them.

— Nawaz Sharif

Politics is not left, right or center ... It's about improving people's lives.

— Paul Wellstone

Respected Kanshi Ramji has supported my rise in politics right from the beginning.

— Mayawati

There is no reason for the government to limit political speech.

— Penn Jillette

Democracy is direct self-government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people.

— Theodore Parker

I love the creativity and the social and political aspects of drag.

— RuPaul