Politics Quotes · Page 412

I promised to empower the taxpayer - instead of a handful of big government union bosses.

— Scott Walker

I am a pretty good lawyer, and I decided to close the office and to enter politics.

— Tzipi Livni

Now all politicians assume a necessity of control, the more efficient the control the better.

— William S. Burroughs

Well, it looks as if the top part fell on the bottom part.

— Dan Quayle

“coercive government policies strip the virtue out of every transaction.”

— Dinesh D'Souza

I have always noticed in politics how often men are ruined by having too good a memory.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Insect politics, indifferent universe. Bang your head against the wall, but apathy is worse.

— Don Henley

If you change the society and a culture, the politics will follow.

— Andrew Sullivan

The politicians of New York...see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy

— Bill Vaughan

I don't believe government should take over, you know, the grocery store down the street or own the means of production.

— Bernie Sanders

I don't know the politics of Hollywood. Am I hungry for great material? Every actor is. How I can get to it,…

— Chris Noth

My political sentiments inclined toward the left and emphasized the socialist aspects every bit as much as nationalist ones.

— Adolf Eichmann

Like art, political action gives shape and expression to the things we fear as well as to those we desire. It is…

— Madeleine M. Kunin

Consider what kind of nation we would be if hundreds of scandals involving state and local government still lay locked in the…

— Jack C Landau

The Scottish government set a goal of increasing exports by 50% by 2017. That is ambitious. Is it achievable?

— Tom Hunter

“Broadly put, philosophers think: politicians maneuver. Jefferson's genius was that he was both and could do both, often simultaneously. Such is the…

— Jon Meacham

We must reduce the influence of money in politics, beginning by overturning Citizens United and taking back our system from the millionaires…

— Patty Judge

I've long believed one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and…

— Ronald Reagan

The strongest reason why we ask for woman a voice in the government under which she lives; in the religion she is…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

When a business or an individual spends more than it makes, it goes bankrupt. When government does it, it sends you the…

— Ronald Reagan

The truth is that political consciousness in this country is pretty low... To the degree that we can help educate and organize…

— Bernie Sanders

I think that the government has an obligation to monitor communications that could reveal a plot to murder millions of Americans. Monitoring…

— Jeff Gannon

The British government had not engaged in any serious actual oppression of the colonies before 1774, but it had claimed powers not…

— Edmund Morgan

“Politicians seldom if ever get [into public office] by merit alone, at least in democratic states. Sometimes, to be sure, it happens,…

— H.L. Mencken

I don't really trust politicians, and our job is to call them out. It's old-school journalism.

— Cenk Uygur

I'll be like Scarlett O'Hara-I'll think about it tomorrow.

— Ronald Reagan

Government is an art, not a science, and an adventure, not a planned itinerary.

— Donald Creighton

“The worst stories usually make you think: 'but nobody had to die'. These are called true stories.”

— Moonshine Noire

Historically, it's very unusual after a change of government for the new government not to be returned.

— George Brandis

My son has autism, and I founded the government relations department at Autism Speaks.

— Elizabeth Emken

The only point of government is to safeguard and foster life.

— George Wald

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

— Aristotle

The federal government is basically an insurance company with an army.

— Paul Krugman

I didn't get into politics to play a character on TV.

— Jason Kander

Very few politicians in Washington really represent the interests of many people.

— Sally Satel

If the government fails to listen to your demands, then you will decide what is best for you.

— Muqtada al Sadr

“mind back to his dilemma. What do we do in politics,”

— Ken Follett

We can restore that vital trust between politics and the people.

— Andrea Leadsom

Politicians shouldn't spend most of their time in office trying to get reelected.

— Gary Johnson

Republican democracy is overperfect and demands political virtues and talents far superior to our own.

— Simon Bolivar