Politics Quotes · Page 405

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman.

— Camille Paglia

Sometimes it's more important to change politicians than light bulbs.

— Robert F. Kennedy, Jr

I am very angry, and you don't need angry politicians. You need politicians with great balance.

— Kamal Haasan

Many a politician wishes there was a law to burn old records.

— Will Rogers

His sentences didn't seem to have any verbs, which was par for a politician. All nouns, no action.

— Jennifer Crusie

A political problem thought of in military terms eventually becomes a military problem.

— George C. Marshall

If we get the federal government out of the classroom, maybe we'll get God back in.

— Ronald Reagan

This website is the dream of people who want to change the culture of state government.

— Steve Rauschenberger

My work in government has flowed from the fundamental idea of personal empowerment. It's about giving people the tools they need to…

— James Langevin

It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win.

— Phil Ochs

You don't take it personally. You understand that if people are angry that somehow the government is failing, then they are going…

— Barack Obama

When I have political discussions with my friends, I piss them off because my personal position is that there's no difference between…

— Michael Crichton

“The Jeremiah guy invited me to come work for the government. He said he was with the military and they were looking…

— J.R. Ward

The problem with addicted people, communities, corporations, or countries is that they tend to lie, cheat, or steal to get their 'fix.'…

— Helen Caldicott

Mr Brown is a politician of exceptional experience and ability, and I am sure he will discharge the office of Prime Minister…

— Bertie Ahern

The government who is not be able to provide basic facilities such as electricity and water to the public. So how can…

— Mak_786

Hindsight is obviously a very great thing, but I'm always convinced that the reason that I didn't take as many politics or…

— Emma Watson

“...once becoming a mother, a woman might be radicalized in her feminism. She had a greater stake in saving the earth from…

— Erica Jong

“Political power was thus widely dispersed in Somali society, almost pluralistically. But without the authority of a centralized state to enforce order,…

— Daron Acemoğlu

Few political debates have been as divisive as the European one. I fought as hard as I could on the Remain side,…

— Damian Green

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. It is not for the…

— Lord Acton

“If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall…

— Robert H. Jackson

Disunion and civil war are at hand; and yet I fear disunion and war less than compromise. We can recover from them.…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

The power should be in individual democracies in individual communities. It shouldn't be an oligarchy or some small group of elite. Power…

— Finn Jones

God has given me the will and the force to overcome all obstacles.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

In the end, I think part of my problem was that I was a better legislator than I was a politician.

— Dan Maffei

Government is at best a petulant servant and at worst a tyrannical master.

— George Washington

President Reagan is a rhetorical roundheels, as befits a politician seeking empathy with his audience.

— William Safire

I would have been a disaster as a career politician. I would never have toed a party line.

— Hilary Mantel

I was never in politics before I contested the Lok Sabha by-elections after my father's death.

— Naveen Patnaik

Politics is a thing that only the unsophisticated can really go for.

— Kingsley Amis

I think I could argue that the press has more impact on politics than corporations.

— Eric Schmidt

“I had no vote in the making of such a law, and I have no intention of abiding by it, either.”

— Jessica McCann

A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

— Abraham Lincoln

“I have a deep respect for shallow pockets. They keep politicians honest.
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— Jarod Kintz

As soon as I set foot in the parliamentary Sinai, I ceased to be in touch with the masses.

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

It's rubbish for somebody to say that food is not politics.

— Dominique Crenn

[T]he burden of government is not measured by how much it taxes, but by how much it spends.

— Milton Friedman

“Political change does not, and never has, come about through peaceful protest alone.”

— Cindy Milstein

The government may force me to have health insurance but they can never force me to respect my body.

— Anonymous