Politics Quotes · Page 413

I was always a courageous woman, capable of confronting governments but not men.

— Jane Fonda

There is always a testing of the new kid on the block in politics.

— Jane Byrne

“Lebanon: the country where everyone wants a piece while we want peace.”

— Sandra Chami Kassis

We must regain our vision and hope and move our country forward on an agenda of peace and justice.

— Paul Wellstone

The communal riots ignorance of the people and the result of political ambition are the leaders

— Mak_786

To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.

— Nigel Lawson

My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.

— Indira Gandhi

Government today, far from protecting property, is its main threat.

— Roger Pilon

In India, people still want an image to connect to and, even if it's a false one, they will stick to it.…

— Abhimanyu Singh

The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“[Liberalism] is an ethos that aims simultaneously at political and social collectivism on the one hand, and moral anarchy on the other”

— Irving Kristol

[Vladimir] Putin is an enemy of political dissent. The U.S. celebrates political dissent and the right for people to argue free from…

— Benjamin E. Sasse

I'm a medical doctor by training. I'm a physician, not a politician. And I'm in this as a mother on fire.

— Jill Stein

When a man gives himself up to the government of a ruling passion,--or, in other words, when his HOBBY-HORSE grows head- strong,--farewell…

— Laurence Sterne

“Whenever you hear a politician start a sentence with, “If we can put a man on the moon . . . ,” grab your wallet.”

— Jonah Goldberg

I oppose registration for the draft... because I believe the security of freedom can best be achieved by security through freedom.

— Ronald Reagan

We have a government that purposely counterfeits and debases the currencies, and I believe that the alternative would be a competition. That…

— Ron Paul

I think there was something started under my father that I appreciate that it's time to end, and I like the symmetry…

— Justin Trudeau

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain…

— Thomas Jefferson

I think the part of my acting career where I've been more successful, I've been incredibly cushioned. People are much too nice…

— Hugh Grant

[People] are looking for some means of control and what that means is is that the politics in all of our countries…

— Barack Obama

I grew up with a very strong sense of what is just and what is not or, to put it this way,…

— Wole Soyinka

It is difficult to conduct flood mitigation at the federal level because of the bureaucracy and inconsistent funding. Texans are better able…

— George P. Bush

In fact, corporations are the infants of our society - they know very little except how to grow (though they're very good…

— Bill McKibben

I've set my own rules to live by. The first one is: 'Never believe ANYthing the government says.'

— George Carlin

If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be

— Evelyn Waugh

Military missions cannot be a normal tool of politics, but instead must remain the great exception.

— Guido Westerwelle

Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.

— Anonymous

If simple, painless solutions to public problems existed, they would have been found long ago.

— Alice Rivlin

Let him leave the imperial court, who wishes to be virtuous. Virtue and absolute power cannot coexist.

— Lucan

If you do anything above party, the true hearted ones of all parties sympathize with you.

— Charles Kingsley

“...the wreckage of representative government is strewn with broken promises.”

— Herbert Hoover

Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics.

— Charles Peguy

Law and order is the responsibility of the state governments.

— Mamata Banerjee

I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics.

— Ken Livingstone

You make government number one, and people give up their rights.

— Beneil Dariush

“I believe in absolutely nothing except yeast and the inevitability of politicians.”

— Kerry Greenwood

Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

— I. F. Stone

Ah, if only the best place for storing embryonic stem cells was Yucca Flat.

— James Lileks

I want to get away from "It's either government or the market." That's a false dichotomy.

— Douglas Massey