Politics Quotes · Page 510

When we find a ship, we turn it over to the state or federal government. It's purely historical. I've never made a…

— Clive Cussler

Smaller government, more individual responsibility, more individual control creates more Republicans. More state power and ownership and control and top-down decision-making creates…

— Grover Norquist

“As with democratic politics, the market is a mass of individuals making discrete choices within a framework shaped by larger forces, over…

— Charles J. Chaput

Food is politics. You know, we have one planet. And growing food is, you're using the soil of the planet.

— Dominique Crenn

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure…

— Ayn Rand

To drain the swamp of corruption in Washington, D.C., I started by impose ago five-year lobbying ban on white house officials, and…

— Donald Trump

Political activists in Hong Kong and Taiwan use Facebook as their primary tool to mobilize support for their causes and activities.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

Obama actually believes that as small business grows, the government should be taking more and more from them.

— Kelly Ayotte

The brawny mix of extraordinary sights-weather, politics, races, imagination, corruption and athletics. They clash and mingle here where the broad prairies that…

— Andrew H Malcolm

“It is the principal paradox of this period that the only sphere of our economic system in which government intervention is urgently…

— Oswald Mosley

“Any time you agree to talk to the police or government investigators, you are rolling the dice and taking a terrible chance…

— James Duane

You know that a given in life in human nature, is that at a sporting event, a baseball game, a football game,…

— Mark Russell

There's the occasion when politicians will say things that are simply not true or that they make commitments that they have no…

— Malcolm Turnbull

Socialism violates at least three of the Ten Commandments: It turns government into God, it legalizes thievery and it elevates covetousness. Discussions…

— Ben Shapiro

“❝Washington — perhaps as many global powers have done in the past — uses what I might call the “immaculate conception” theory…

— Graham E. Fuller

If, however, the success of a politician is to be measured by the degree in which he is able personally to influence…

— Millicent Fawcett

“Virtually every Tea Party advocate I interviewed for this book has personally benefited from a major government service or has close family…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

The Veterans Health Administration is a perfect case study of how government should stay out of patient care altogether.

— Mercedes Schlapp

England that little gray island in the clouds where governments don't fall overnight and children don't sell themselves in the street and…

— Caryl Churchill

Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.

— Olympia Snowe

“Thy life is not thine own to govern, Danny, for it controls other lives. See how thy friends suffer! Spring to life,…

— John Steinbeck

In terms of the principles of politics, I think I understand well. Thailand needs someone who has leadership, who has the management…

— Yingluck Shinawatra

I haven't thought about aspirations for the future. I like politics, I like serving the public, and we'll see if God offers…

— Marco Rubio

I don't speculate about the motives - the political motives of the political motives of personal attacks.

— Alejandro Mayorkas

I wrote The Same Sea not as a political allegory about Israelis and Palestinians. I wrote it about something much more gutsy…

— Amos Oz

Both politicians and journalists face situations which strain their honesty and humanity. My opinion is that politicians on the average stand up…

— John McCarthy

We really don’t get all the government we pay for, and thank goodness. Lord protect us on the day that we do.

— Jeffrey Tucker

As we all know, health care is not getting any cheaper since government expanded its reach into the industry.

— Nancy Mace

The fight for reform comes down to a simple goal: giving our citizens the confidence that government serves the people first and…

— Bob Riley

I fully understand the expectations of the state governments. Thus, I am better placed to work closely with the chief ministers.

— Narendra Modi

I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me…

— Ann Richards

The United States government must not undertake to run the Churches. When an individual, in the Church or out of it, becomes…

— Abraham Lincoln

Look, I think by the time my case was over and other ones, everybody on both sides of the aisle in Congress…

— Bruce Babbitt

Live fire cooking and barbecue have been so intimately linked with human evolution and history and politics. Everything we do, barbecue informs…

— Steven Raichlen

A camel is a horse designed by a committee and a committee's a sweet running piece of machinery compared to any government.

— Gordon R. Dickson

I decided few years ago to leave the bar to pursue a career in politics because I wanted to make a contribution…

— George Brandis

Why, look you, I am whipp'd and scourg'd with rods, Nettled and stung with pismires[nettles], when I hear Of this vile politician,…

— William Shakespeare

Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached.

— Eric Clapton

“A brick could be used as a hammer, which frees up the hammer to be used as a sex toy. The only…

— Jarod Kintz

“Governments often keep their populace in permanent states of vigilance or anxiety against foreign enemies as a control mechanism—the politics of fear.”

— Graham E. Fuller