Politics Quotes · Page 401

Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake.

— Roger Stone

“Wise politics is the art of invigorating society and weakening the State.”

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

The state of the industry is much like the state of politics. It's too middle-aged, white, and male.

— Jessica Henwick

Greatest gift is human life and that we have a duty to protect the life of an unborn child.

— Ronald Reagan

The life we live is a jurassic park, the predators are the bankers and politicians.

— Jeremy Limn

Being black does not constitute that your mind is also blank. You happen to be labeled black.

— Wilson Khashane Msendevu

When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it'll be called rent-a-spine

— Margaret Thatcher

A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

By scrapping the government's centrally dictated density targets we'll ensure that the right type of new homes are built where they're needed,…

— Grant Shapps

There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and…

— Laura Ingraham

The worst elements in Mexico are being pushed into the United States by the Mexican government. The Border Patrol knows this. Likewise,…

— Donald Trump

“A brick could be used to paint a mural of your favorite politician. It doesn’t matter how accurate it is, just so…

— Jarod Kintz

But for us, in Syria, we have principles. We'll do anything to prevent the region from another crazy war. It's not only…

— Bashar al-Assad

No class is safe unless government is so arranged that each class has in its hands the means of protecting itself. That…

— Wendell Phillips

It's a sad thing about politics that most people get power too late, in that they differ from ladies of easy virtue…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

Health care reform, the marquee legislative accomplishment of the Obama administration's first term, was passed before we entered the world of divided…

— Eliot Spitzer

“What is all the enormous amount of activity spent uselessly in politics every day but an expression of the need to lend…

— Peter Kropotkin

When I need to take a side, I write a newspaper article and I tell my government, "You should not do that,…

— Amos Oz

No diplomatic intervention will ever be made by any government that I lead in support of any individual terrorist's life. We have…

— Kevin Rudd

It is unclear how disarming law-abiding citizens would better protect them from the dangers and threats posed by those who would flout…

— Rick Scott

Oswald Mosley's movement, it was a big movement. It was obviously anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic, it was populist. Mosley wanted to replace the parliamentary…

— Rachel Maddow

As the United States drifts from its Judeo-Christian foundation and as the state becomes ever more pervasive in American life, government could…

— H. Wayne House

No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation,…

— Patrick Henry

“THESE MANIFESTATIONS OF BACKLASH—against family breakup, illegitimacy, welfare, crime, riots, black activists, anti-war demonstrators, long-haired hippies, government programs that favored minorities, elitists,…

— James T. Patterson

“We fight amongst ourselves over political and theological differences.”

— Joshua Dalzelle

Sports and politics are basically all I really care about or talk about.

— Peter Jacobson

To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles.

— Anonymous

The major thing of our government is to protect the people.

— John Layfield

Divisive national politics continue to chip away at our daily life.

— Kevin Faulconer

There is no law that says a campaign cannot accept information from a foreign government.

— Jeanine Pirro

“collecting secrets was and is crucial to solving foreign policy puzzles.”

— Gregory F. Treverton

I have had no contact with the Chinese government. I only work with journalists.

— Edward Snowden

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

— James A. Garfield

“If your political theory requires humanity to "evolve", then you do not have a theory.”

— A.E. Samaan

I want us to have more MPs and more opportunity to change politics in this country.

— Heidi Allen

It is unfortunate whenever someone tries to bring politics into sport.

— Shahid Afridi

I've always had my voice as a comic. I was never that into politics, or prop comedy.

— Andrew Dice Clay

The American people deserve their government to be open and accountable.

— Charles Boustany

The government union bosses are the most powerful politicians in Springfield.

— Bruce Rauner

I'd love to be the political voice of my generation, but that's not my gift.

— Anita Baker