Politics Quotes · Page 390

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

I have an institutional fear of big government. I have an institutional opposition to bureaucracy.

— Rush Limbaugh

I am a politician but I am also an actress and you do need glamour in politics.

— Jaya Prada

It takes money to run political campaigns. This is a cancer growing on the soul of our democracy.

— Elizabeth Warren

It's true that in chess as in politics, fund-raising and glad-handing matter.

— Garry Kasparov

It is easier for a republican form of government to be applauded than realized.

— Publius Cornelius Tacitus

Political genius consists in identifying oneself with a principle.

— Simon Heffer

I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.

— Winston Churchill

This was a good example of the fascist policing of public discourse in this country by nominal liberals who have become as…

— Camille Paglia

Since there are no absolutes, when it's convenient, you change the rules. Do we know any politicians that have done that?

— Ted Cruz

The English mind is always in a rage. The intellect of the race is wasted in the sordid and stupid quarrels of…

— Oscar Wilde

I believe that it is my right and responsibility as an American to question our government when our government is wrong.

— Cindy Sheehan

When you have an individual that is committed to killing someone else, you can't expect a restraining order or the police to…

— William Bennett

I've been to your mountains, I've been to your sea-side, and everywhere I went somebody's wanted a free ride.

— Kid Rock

“He still had a fragment of his boyhood belief that congressman were persons of intelligence and importance.”

— Sinclair Lewis

Certain governments are suggesting that bloggers and tweeters aren't 'real' writers and, so, don't merit protection. A writer is anyone from a…

— John Ralston Saul

“Destroying the joint means building a new system in which it is not OK to allow people to be marginalised, exploited and…

— Christine Milne

“Many signs point to the fact that the youth of the Third World will no longer tolerate living in circumstances that give…

— Roméo Dallaire

I am persuaded, from all the facts that have come to me, that it would have been possible, if we had functioned…

— J. Reuben Clark

“How do politicians cope with the challenges of predicting or manipulating the future, given that we can have only partial knowledge of…

— Marcus du Sautoy

In North America, people get a sense that something is really wrong in government and in our culture. There is a corruption,…

— Jennifer Beals

I, sir, have always conceived - I believe those who proposed the constitution conceived,and it is still more fully known, and more…

— James Madison

“And they were always young, Air Corps pilots and ensigns, and good-looking girls in fur coats, and always the government secretary or…

— Norman Mailer

My strength is in finding ways to make the government work for the people: finding waste, or money that is not being…

— Tammy Duckworth

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

— Will Rogers

The political groups who have taken the responsibility to elect Mr. Macron have been discredited.

— Marine Le Pen

I don't really have funny things to say about politics. I wish I did, but I don't.

— Janeane Garofalo

The gratitude of place-expectants is a lively sense of future favours.

— Robert Walpole

President Bush spent the day calling names he couldn't pronounce in countries he never knew existed.

— Jay Leno

Every time you work on a political campaign, half the people hate you. That's how it is.

— Brittany Kaiser

I'm so unhappy with electoral politics that I switched to sports radio.

— Anonymous

You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain.

— George Lakoff

I wanted to work for society, so instead of joining politics I joined an NGO.

— Kirron Kher

There's politics in 'Kaala,' but it's not a political drama.

— Rajinikanth

The worst thing a politician can be is dull. At least I'm interesting.

— Richard M. Nixon

The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.

— Albert Schweitzer

Government is not a solution to our problem government is the problem.

— Ronald Reagan

I was born a limited-government person. I've always had this streak going through me.

— Joe Lhota

Political Economy means that everybody except politicians must be economical.

— Anonymous

We are in desperate need of a return to limited, constitutional government.

— Wendy Long