Politics Quotes · Page 565

Major flaw in government arise from a fear of making radical internal changes even though a need is clearly seen.

— Frank Herbert

The biggest accomplishment, in racial terms, for Barack Obama was being elected. He had to overcome his blackness to be elected. He…

— Randall Kennedy

Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of…

— Thomas Paine

“A fool will always rely on what someone else says, however an intelligent person would use critical thinking to justify the rationality…

— Saaif Alam

At the end of the day, money is just a proxy for votes. That is what makes politics so vulnerable to social…

— Sean Parker

Obviously the federal government has the ability and the right to have their currency and to create the kind of policy that…

— Francis X. Suarez

To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary

— Francis Parker Yockey

Our Constitution works; our great republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.

— Gerald R. Ford

“Bernie was their last chance. A politician who came so very close to the nomination and the levers of power that he…

— Jared Yates Sexton

“They are often brave, I'm sure, but they are stupid, too, because they give their lives for governments and causes that use…

— Gregory David Roberts

Too many politicians are shifting the critical themes of our national conversations from a 'big ideas' American Brand Platform to narrowly focused,…

— Alan Siegel

Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that…

— James Madison

Remarkably, governments are beginning to embrace the idea that nothing enhances democracy more than giving voice and information to everybody in the…

— Mo Ibrahim

Our leaders ranged from bad to extraordinary. But through it all, the GOP was the one party even vaguely amenable to limited-government…

— Rick Wilson

As my father-in-law once said, when they talk about taxes it's always for teachers, firemen, and police - but when they spend…

— Glenn Reynolds

I want to say that this business of corruption and the fight against corruption is a very serious matter, and sometimes I'm…

— Yemi Osinbajo

People have been very strong against Obamacare since I was first elected, and they still feel that way. They want us to…

— Chuck Fleischmann

The left-wing agenda wants us to think that the reason there was a depression was because the government didn't do anything. That's…

— Peter Schiff

I apprehend... that the total abandonment of the principle of rotation in the offices of President and Senator will end in abuse.

— Thomas Jefferson

Often times, political games prevent senators from even beginning to debate some of the most important issues.

— Michael Bennet

I do worry that organizations and even governments who own AI and data will have a competitive advantage and power, and those…

— Rana el Kaliouby

Most people I know I think agree and even many theists agree with this. We don't want government involved.

— Michael Newdow

Every provisional political set-up following a revolution requires a dictatorship, and an energetic dictatorship at that.

— Karl Marx

The school system has become a part of this huge government machine, governed by people who aren't close to the situation. That's…

— Stacey Dash

“In politics, the pen is at its heaviest because it is weighed down by the collective responsibility it holds towards its people…

— Aysha Taryam

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

— George Orwell

Justice is never anything in itself, but in the dealings of men with one another in any place whatever and at any…

— Epicurus

“Politicians cover their mistakes with money; cooks cover their mistakes with mayonnaise; doctors cover theirs with dirt.”

— Joe Haldeman

If the Government put people before markets, it would build more council housing - a form of public investment in housing that…

— Dawn Foster

“some supporters of the unrestrained free market have found that dogma: the claim that science is nothing more than politics.”

— Timothy Snyder

Political campaigns offer Americans an opportunity to adjust direction, reaffirm values, and recommit to the covenant that binds them together.

— Stanley A. McChrystal

I can't think of any male politician who magnetizes love and hate - mainly hate - the way [Margaret Thatcher] did.

— Hilary Mantel

The language of politics is poetry, not prose. Jackson is poetry. Cuomo is poetry. Dukakis is a word processor.

— Richard M. Nixon

I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day.

— Dave Eggers

Dexterity is one of the chief weapons of diplomacy; governments rely more upon the supremacy of this instrument, when in the hands…

— James Ellis

“We're a complacent society, hard to get riled up in the first place, and then when we do, it's misdirected.”

— Bill Maher

I like developing characters who I find to have interesting psychology. Like politics and sex, but I'm really looking at bigger social…

— Mora Stephens

The equal rights of man and the happiness of every individual are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.

— Thomas Jefferson

Nothing distinguishes more clearly conditions in a free country from those in a country under arbitrary government than the observance in the…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Most people don't want to talk about politics and religion. They say, 'Let's talk about something else.'

— Prince