Politics Quotes · Page 395

“The biggest fear a corporate government has is that the masses will refuse to work.”

— Steven Magee

Somehow politicians have become convinced that negative campaigning pays off in elections.

— George McGovern

Government is a way by which every individual believes he can live at the expense of everybody else.

— Milton Friedman

I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.

— Fiona Apple

I've accepted that I was a failure in politics. I was not qualified for the job.

— Amitabh Bachchan

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.

— Gore Vidal

If we don't get reform in campaign financing, then we can write this country off.

— Frances Farenthold

“The powerful can make the truth dance to their song.”

— J.Y. Yang

Dreams became issues of East versus West. Hopes became political rhetoric. Progress became a search for power and domination. Somewhere the truth…

— Ronald Reagan

So we have progressed to the point where we can move politicians around faster than light. I'm not sure I see the…

— Jack McDevitt

Economic freedom has no security without political freedom, and political freedom can find its security only in economic freedom.

— Eugen Richter

My measure of success is to walk into a restaurant and hear a table debating drug policy. Once the public start the…

— Sam Branson

Hamirpur has a high literacy rate and most people are well-settled. It is also home to a significant number of Army men,…

— Anurag Thakur

A lot of people are angry about the democratic abuses that have been committed by the Spanish government.

— Carles Puigdemont

“When polarization confronts the United States’ Madisonian check-and-balance political system, the result is devastating. – Francis Fukuyama”

— Anonymous

In healthcare like in government generally, people are incentivised to engage in wasteful/dangerous signalling to a terrifying degree - not rigorous thinking…

— Dominic Cummings

My father taught me many things. Two of them come to mind right now: Stay true to your values. You can compromise…

— Justin Trudeau

The IPCC 'policy summaries,' written by a small group of their political operatives, frequently contradict the work of the scientists that prepare…

— Peter Friedman

We are changing the way we govern ourselves - not just in the way we work in New Delhi, but also in…

— Narendra Modi

Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make…

— Henry David Thoreau

Canadians expect their government to make sure we're helping the people who need the help and growing the economy, and that's exactly…

— Justin Trudeau

I just don't really get into all that sort of personal negative stuff. My job is to outline some positive plans for…

— Kevin Rudd

Our political document shows that we are prepared in the context of a national consensus to accept a state on the lines…

— Khaled Mashal

“This renewed politics of otherness not only allowed entire categories of poor whites to develop a powerful sense of racial belonging, but…

— Derrick Bell

You don't have to speak English to have sophisticated political opinions.

— Ronny Chieng

But always I was a private citizen whose activities in government or political party were appointive.

— Jane Byrne

I have all the equipment to be a politician. Total shamelessness.

— Orson Welles

The conflict between art and politics... cannot and must not be solved.

— Hannah Arendt

I'm so happy, I think I'll dress up like J. Edgar Hoover and sing show tunes.

— Don Imus

In politics there are no principles, just opportunities

— Bill Press

The equally is a political theory, but no a practical politics.

— Anonymous

My father was a banker, and my mother worked for the state government.

— Urmila Matondkar

A little matter will move a party, but it must be something great that moves a nation.

— Thomas Paine

I tend to be naive and gullible, I guess, but I try to believe that governments believe what they say.

— James Hansen

You can define everything as being political and analyze it politically.

— Jim Jarmusch

With the globalization, it's difficult for governments to impose decisions on private companies.

— Ehud Barak

“purges and vaporizations were a necessary part of the mechanics of government. The”

— George Orwell

Trump is a product of a seething populism and nationalism that is the driving political force.

— Steve Bannon

Why is our media quick to find evil in our local police, but tnot in Islamic terror?

— Greg Gutfeld

I have tried for a year to work with the Telangana government.

— N. Chandrababu Naidu