Politics Quotes · Page 404

Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.

— Anonymous

I may not be a politician, but I will fight to the end of my life for what I believe in.

— Bidzina Ivanishvili

Sometimes sports serves as a reprieve from politics, and sometimes it serves as an extension of it.

— Clint Smith

“[R]evolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning;”

— David Hume

“politics is about the improvement of people’s lives.” I”

— Al Franken

Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

— Jerry Garcia

I am often in contact with the hareidi public and politicians.

— Naftali Bennett

“loved their politicians to look good. Beauty was a must when telling lies.”

— Cameron Jace

Politics is democracy's way of handling public business. We won't get the type of country in the kind of world we want…

— David R. Brower

When governments claim to derive their authority from any source other than the governed, it always leads to the destruction of liberty.

— G. Edward Griffin

I think voting is the lowest form of political action that you can do. A lot of times, it keeps people from…

— Boots Riley

We have a lot of friends, but not among the governments - the friends are in the peoples. And in the last…

— Che Guevara

There is nothing patriotic about hating your country or pretending that you can love your country but despise your government.

— Bill Clinton

The health, safety and prosperity of our communities are our top priorities, and state and local governments provide critical services that protect…

— Sara Gideon

Present law has a process to ascertain whether or not a patient is in a persistent vegetative state, and it should not…

— Bobby Scott

We want to open up more opportunities for U.S. businesses and travelers to engage with Cuba, and we want the Cuban government…

— Ben Rhodes

“Washington” has become for many a dirty word that connotes self-serving politicians and devious lobbyists. To be sure, they are there, but…

— Dan Rather

If a revolution destroys a systematic government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact, then those…

— Robert M. Pirsig

When I left law school, I wanted to go into the government, into the tax policy area. I got the job that…

— Dan Burt

“Since Samoylenko had left Dorpat, where he had studied medicine, he had rarely seen a German and had not read a single…

— Anton Chekhov

Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was…

— Jose Saramago

“All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. We balance…

— Edmund Burke

Fascists are flourishing politically in France and Italy, and now comes the murder of Pim Fortuyn, a populist politician who might have…

— David Pryce-Jones

I wasn't a politician. I had no - no - even thought of being a politician. So, nobody even talked to me…

— Donald Trump

Don't begin to think you're the President. You're not. The Constitution provides for only one.

— Donald Rumsfeld

“The government exists for one purpose—to take everything away from you.”

— Scott Wallace

If there is no crisis in your country, don't worry, the government will create one.

— Vikrant Parsai

For me to go into politics would be like sending a virgin into a house of ill-repute.

— H. L. Mencken

We should reduce total government spending as a percentage of the economy.

— Grover Norquist

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Mentioning Jesus in your speech: Small government. Doing what Jesus asked: Big government.

— Stephen Colbert

Politics is - once in a while - a forum for serious debate about political philosophy.

— P. J. O'Rourke

The Left relies upon the politics of fantasy to tempt voters.

— Michael J. Knowles

The ability of a country to wage war is not an accurate measure of its strengths, but of its fears.

— Derek R. Audette

Politics, as a trade, finds most and leaves nearly all dishonest.

— Abraham Lincoln

There Is No Terrorist Threat In This Country. This Is A Lie. This Is The Biggest Lie We've Been Told.

— Michael Moore

You can define how strong a democracy is by how its government treats ... the child of the state.

— Lemn Sissay

I care about politics just like any other citizen. I'm against the war in Iraq, or any type of war.

— Enrique Iglesias

One thing is inevitable: if government continues to fall down the people will rise up.

— Anonymous

Healthcare should be about market driven solutions, not government mandates.

— Joni Ernst