Politics Quotes · Page 406

Politicians have immense power to do harm to the economy. But they have very little power to do good.

— Walter E. Williams

The best commentary on the principles of government which has ever been written.

— Thomas Jefferson

We're not saying, 'We're politicians, trust us.' We know you don't trust us.

— Michael Howard

“Terrible is the situation of a small country that stands alone.”

— Miklós Bánffy

The more heavily the government regulates the market, the more competition is impeded.

— Alex Kozinski

I know that I could make this world peaceful and calm, if I only could get my hands on a hydrogen bomb.

— Todd Rundgren

Politics /n/: from 'poly ticks', short for 'many small bloodsucking insects'.

— Henry Spencer

The gun lobby is certainly politically powerful, but it loses as many races as it wins.

— Chris Murphy

I believe the role of government is to stand side by side with our citizens to help them realize their dreams, not…

— George W. Bush

A recent conversation: Dubya: Look at the clock, time is racing! Cheney: That's the second hand, George.

— Dennis Miller

“They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. —written for the Pennsylvania…

— Benjamin Franklin

With Boris Johnson, you don't think of him as a politician, oddly. You think of him as a media personality because he's…

— Charlie Brooker

I felt that we had become a society ruled by sectors, by interest groups: Whoever's connected to the Israeli government gets more.

— Yair Lapid

Anyone who thinks you can pay $3,100 to the federal government and thinks you can get that money back completely in services…

— Louie Gohmert

The only bus tours to political events I ever went on with my father were when he was running for president. Why…

— Meghan McCain

There is a good supply of Russia experts out there - people who have lived there with lots of good experience -…

— Fiona Hill

I'm looking for a Justice who appreciates the awesome responsibility that she will be given, if confirmed. A Justice who understands the…

— Amy Klobuchar

I realized that public affairs were also my affairs. I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all…

— Helen Gahagan Douglas

“I think being a liberal, in the true sense, is being nondoctrinaire, nondogmatic, non-committed to a cause - but examining each case…

— Walter Cronkite

When you are guaranteed you will win, you can take very inflammatory, very extreme positions. If you have to run in a…

— Dennis Prager

“The great thing about libertarianism is that it is a political superstructure in which most other political philosophies can operate. No other…

— Anonymous

The instrument by which it [government] must act are either the AUTHORITY of the laws or FORCE. If the first be destroyed,…

— Alexander Hamilton

The reason territorial monarchs failed time after time against maritime powers was not that absolutist, non-consensual governments were incapable of building great…

— Peter Padfield

It has not been the style of Canadian politicians to write of their experiences, although it is the common practice for British,…

— Judy LaMarsh

Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.

— Yehuda Amichai

The greatest powers cannot injure a man's character whose reputation is unblemished among his party.

— Lord Chesterfield

The real danger is a politics that buries its head in the sand.

— Tzipi Livni

I have a husband at home who doesn't care about politics or global affairs.

— Carrie Lam

“Government scientists are commonly as corrupt as the corporate government that employs them.”

— Steven Magee

I am not a politician, and I will never be, and I say that with absolute conviction.

— David Petraeus

Government may not redistribute private wealth or grant special privileges to any individual or group.

— Noam Chomsky

I cannot watch the city of Chicago be destroyed by petty politics and bad government.

— Harold Washington

That's my curse, I see the politics within these things and so I don't say yes to them.

— Alex Cox

You know, we have three branches of government. We have a House. We have a Senate. We have a President.

— Chuck Schumer

Any government cannot work or function if it does not enjoy popular support.

— Amit Shah

“Hyperbole is the common currency of political debate.”

— Raul Ramos y Sanchez

The Lord's our shepherd, says the psalm. But just in case, we better get a bomb.

— Tom Lehrer

The central government possesses no plan of finding the way out of this blind alley.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

My politics is my religion, my religion is my politics.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Government commissions are where accountability goes to die.

— Ilana Mercer