Politics Quotes · Page 396

A government is free in proportion to the rights it guarantees to the minority.

— Alf Landon

Low inflation and government prudence may be harmful for economic development.

— Ha-Joon Chang

I'm very worried about the future for women in politics.

— Luciana Berger

All of us -- parents, schools, communities and government -- share responsibility to keep kids safe.

— Bill Clinton

“Politicians need citizens who will permit them to behave reasonably.”

— William Edgar Stafford

Sometimes people just don't understand the way that I work in politics.

— John Kasich

I'm just not going to spend a lot of political capital solving some other guy's problem in 2010.

— David Stockman

Jail is just the government's way of sending you to your room.

— Syzzer

I've served in 25 nations. I've seen where people don't trust their government. We're there. In the military, the last option is…

— Ryan Zinke

If you're going to have a public subsidy to education, vouchers are clearly a better way of delivering it. They should result…

— Peter Brimelow

Clinton's successor in the White House, George W. Bush, was committed to expanding government spending for faith-based initiatives.

— Tony Campolo

Separatism is a very healthy movement within culture. It's a disastrous movement within politics and economics.

— Northrop Frye

It is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them.

— Rand Paul

A major part of living in a representative form of government is giving citizens the right to choose and be treated equally.

— Nina Turner

With a Socialist government, there will not be a national surplus whilst there continues to be inequality.

— Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

Yes, deficits are a problem. I've been saying so for more than a quarter of a century now. But the problem is…

— Ronald Reagan

“It's all very well to run around saying regulation is bad, get the government off our backs, etc. Of course our lives…

— Molly Ivins

You've got to be fairly solemn [about the environment]. I mean the mere notion that there are three times as many people…

— David Attenborough

I think you will see a lot of strains develop in the political process that will result in violence everywhere in the…

— John Abizaid

In 2011, when I established the activist group Scholarism, I could have not imagined that a year later, 100,000 people would take…

— Joshua Wong

To discover how much of our resources must be mobilized for war, we must first examine our political aim and that of…

— Carl von Clausewitz

The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has…

— Eric Alterman

The good things of life do not fall from the skies. They can only come by hard work and over a long…

— Mr. Lee

“In recent years there has been a tendency by some Western historians and politicians to look back at the aftermath of the…

— Keith Lowe

You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.

— Aneurin Bevan

In no way am I supporting or suggesting that a Conservative government is a good thing, far from it.

— Jarvis Cocker

“The most courageous act in politics is to try to understand your opponent.”

— Alain de Botton

World leaders and major political figures have often had delusions of grandeur.

— Gavin Esler

Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.

— Hunter S. Thompson

You also want to fire people who a) create office politics, and b) who are persistently negative.

— Sam Altman

In the truly great, virtue governs with the sceptre of knowledge.

— Philip Sidney

I have a feeling that we are doing better in the war than the people have been told.

— Ronald Reagan

The politics of identity, cancellation, and mob rule are not acceptable to me.

— Daniel Cameron

The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.

— Thomas Jefferson

In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament.

— Frank Moore Colby

Real politics is messy and morally ambiguous and doesn't make for a compelling thriller.

— James Surowiecki

There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.

— Richard M. Nixon

Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.

— Dario Fo

I'm not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics.

— Natalie Dormer

Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

— Mark B. Cohen