Politics Quotes · Page 393

Government was intended to suppress injustice, but its effect has been to embody and perpetuate it.

— William Godwin

Political organizations are formed to keep the powerful in power.

— Shirley Chisholm

As entrepreneurs, we sometimes do not understand the complexities of running a government.

— Bhavish Aggarwal

Chris Matthews is so nuts that if he ate a snickers bar it would be cannibalism.

— Greg Gutfeld

Courtesy is the politic witchery of great personages.

— Baltasar Gracian

When it comes to sex, most women are like the government. All talk, no action.

— Nikhil Saluja

We should vigorously debate policy differences. We have too much all-or-nothing in American politics.

— Benjamin E. Sasse

Oh my God, don't ever start a political party. It's exhausting.

— Sandi Toksvig

The NGO-ization of politics threatens to turn resistance into a well-mannered, reasonable, salaried, 9-to-5 job. With a few perks thrown in. Real…

— Arundhati Roy

“The more you can escape from how horrible things really are, the less it's going to bother you...and then, the worse things…

— Frank Zappa

I think all of us, politicians and churchmen, should do our utmost to change the society so that there would be no…

— Pierre Trudeau

I have come from outside Delhi, but I give you an assurance that the people in the Government are very capable. I…

— Narendra Modi

“Fortunately, there was government by consent of the governed in America—but just as unfortunately, such governments dearly hate to admit a mistake.”

— T. R. Fehrenbach

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be…

— James Russell Lowell

I ran for president in order to be able to try to change Washington D.C. from the inside. Our federal government is…

— Herman Cain

I love the way business works, when there's a crisis or a scandal, there is blood on the floor. Somebody pays, people…

— Suzy Welch

“The most dangerous people in the world are not the tiny minority instigating evil acts, but those who do the acts for…

— Suzy Kassem

Politics is a dirty business, a ruse, an ideological cul-de-sac, a vast looter of intellectual and financial resources, a lie that corrupts,…

— Jeffrey Tucker

Anarchism stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion and liberation of the human body from the…

— Emma Goldman

Let the Democrates go on making its case for more government control over every aspect of our lives. More taxes to pay.…

— Paul Ryan

The frustration of our [The Daily] show is- very much outside any parameters of the media or the government. We don't have…

— Jon Stewart

“The Comtesse's fellow prisoners in this antechamber to death were characteristic of the ill-assorted gatherings thrown together in Revolutionary prisons: duchesses and…

— Stanley Loomis

It really is my opinion that media in general are so bad that we have to question whether the world wouldn't be…

— Julian Assange

I believe that if you are a young person and you're not representative of your government - if you're a left-leaning person…

— Matty Healy

The Liberal carbon tax is just about raising revenue for government.

— Andrew Scheer

The Smithsonian Institute is one of the most popular agencies of government in the United States.

— Norm Dicks

To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.

— Bobby Seale

At twenty, I implicitly dissociated poetry from politics.

— Adrienne Rich

“And why do we think for a second that having the government involved will make things better”

— Adam Carolla

[Hillary Clinton] is typical politician. All talk, no action.

— Donald Trump

As a black woman, the government is so much in my life, and it always has been.

— Amanda Seales

A wise man once said, never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment.

— Frank Zappa

A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.

— Carter Glass

A true patriot will defend his country from its government.

— Thomas Jefferson

No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.

— John Dryden

It actually turns out to be much harder to really understand government across state local and federal.

— Steve Ballmer

In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.

— John Perry Barlow

I've tried to lead a progressive, activist government.

— Dalton McGuinty

Bloodletting is among the ingredients of political medicine.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

National governments are under paid, under staffed, and under talented.

— Terence McKenna