Politics Quotes · Page 399

The real goal of politics has to be getting people to act on what they already know was wrong.

— Norman Finkelstein

A single good government is a blessing to the whole earth.

— Thomas Jefferson

“No, I'm the human here. I'm the life at stake. I'm the one with fingernails, who feels pain. Me.”

— Alicen Grey

“Everything is temporary. Well, except government programs.”

— Brooke Bida

The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.

— Louis D. Brandeis

Everything that steel achieves in war can be won in politics by eloquence.

— Demetrius

For conspiracy, I know not how it tastes, though it be dished For me to try how.

— William Shakespeare

“This is ridiculous. I’m talking to a horse about politics.”

— Emma Iadanza

“Unfortunately, in the social as in the political world, the victims are such cowards that one cannot for long remain indignant with…

— Marcel Proust

“The innocent put their faith into their government, whereas the smart do their own research and adopt protective lifestyle changes based on…

— Steven Magee

In policy arena after policy arena, Democrats respond to every failure of clunky government by proposing the addition of still more layers…

— Ben Sasse

[Tyler Perry] has the luxury of not doing the political stuff, which is really where I want to be as a company.

— Glenn Beck

It's important for Americans to know what the guys fighting the wars have been experiencing, not just from the perspective of a…

— Brandon Webb

When the government is trying to penny-pinch and, at the same time, trying to keep a defense expenditure and so forth, which…

— Amartya Sen

You should expect everything. Not necessarily through the government, the governments are not the only player in [Middle East] region.

— Bashar al-Assad

It is up to the historians, not politicians, to judge what happened in the past. Politicians look into the future.

— Egemen Bag?s

The image of a free constitution was preserved with decent reverence: the Roman senate appeared to possess the sovereign authority, and devolved…

— Edward Gibbon

Politics becomes a part of a writer's working life. The writer's protagonists are born in the context of the feelings that this…

— Simin Behbahani

“Talking of politics, I would like to reiterate that Arabs are people. By that I mean they are not merely an anonymous…

— Albert Camus

In my heart I know you didn't come here just for me, you came here because you believe in what this country…

— Barack Obama

George W. Bush, 43rd president of the United States, became the first incumbent president to increase his majority in both the Senate…

— Peggy Noonan

President Obama has called for economic and political empowerment of women globally. The Equal Futures Partnership promotes removal of policy, legal, and…

— Lael Brainard

The Tea Party represents stakeholders in the American system; people who were never involved in politics or thought they had to be,…

— Tammy Bruce

In America, where the electoral process is drowning in commercial techniques of fund-raising and image-making, we may have completed a circle back…

— Barbara Tuchman

Civil disobedience is a viable political tactic, and a non-violent tactic.

— William Kunstler

The government is fully capable of delivering services. Even complex services.

— Donna Shalala

Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize.

— Tom Lehrer

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.

— George Jean Nathan

“We youths say “like” all the time because we mistrust reality.”

— James S. Kunen

I teach them correct principles and they govern themselves.

— Joseph Smith, Jr

If we're so awful and we're so bad, you ought to check out the nightlife in Leningrad.

— Glenn Frey

If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing?

— Noam Chomsky

Masters of the bluff and masters of the proposition, but the enemy I see wears a cloak of decency.

— Bob Dylan

Every government has a fixed budget and demands of all sectors have to be fulfilled in that amount.

— Manoj Tiwari

Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub.

— Grover Norquist

If the government mandates anything with a price tag on it, then it ought to fund the project.

— Jesse Ventura

“the political antichrist, a figure of dark but buffoonish scandal,”

— Michael Wolff

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best

— Otto von Bismarck

I don't really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism.

— Marco Rubio

The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.

— Pope Francis