Politics Quotes · Page 626

We must apply a judicial rather than a political standard to the information before us [if choosing a Judge].

— Orrin Hatch

My experiences building Palantir and running Addepar made me aware of serious problems with government and inspired me to build a non-profit…

— Joe Lonsdale

A big mistake in politics is to think that because an issue appears to have been settled, it doesn't exist anymore. You…

— Philippe Couillard

“Laws forbidding adoptees from accessing their original birth certificates are outdated and need to be changed today.”

— DaShanne Stokes

Government policies ought to encourage families to stay together and work hard to improve their lives, not punish them.

— Rachel Campos-Duffy

Let's face it: Many on the political right believe this president ought not to be there - they oppose him not for…

— Sam Donaldson

Learning more about America's history and the way our government functions is exciting - and it is necessary.

— Michael Waltz

What I could not support was a dumb war, a rash war, a war based not on reason but on passion, not…

— Barack Obama

“Americans, though apparently impressed by ghastly sentimentality and outrageous hypocrisy, are by nature much more politically cynical than Canadians. In their longer…

— Gordon Donaldson

As one of a handful of religion professors in the U.S. who study, write, and teach about conservative Christianity and politics, I…

— Anthea Butler

“Governments don't protect people, people protect governments." "Order is organic, it can’t just be ordered up." "The more complexity, the more unpredictability…

— Lawrence Samuels

Today's water institutions-the policies and laws, government agencies and planning and engineering practices that shape patterns of water use-are steeped in a…

— Sandra Postel

When a peacekeeping operation is deployed, it is in support of a political process, it is part of an integrated approach. It…

— Jean-Marie Guehenno

“Intelligence is a capacity so godlike, so protean that it must be contained and disciplined. This is the work of politics—understood as…

— Charles Krauthammer

Obey; this may be right; but beware of reverence… Government is nothing but regulated force; force is its appropriate claim upon your…

— William Godwin

This is why Indians are thought to be stupid. They can't think, they don't know anything, they say. But we have hidden…

— Rigoberta Menchu

If you want a show to talk about politics or the Muslim ban or whatever - someone should make that show. That's…

— Ramy Youssef

I think Singaporeans will realize that when you vote elected opposition MPs into Parliament, the Government is more responsive and more sensitive…

— Pritam Singh

I had my doubts about 'Yes, Prime Minister' being successful in the U.S. because your system of government is so different than…

— Nigel Hawthorne

I have way too shady a background to get into politics. I was a crazy kid - I was in bands, and…

— Michael Kelly

All forms of government ultimately are not going to succeed in trying to control or censor the Internet.

— Rupert Murdoch

Keep a goverment poor and weak and it's your servant; when it is rich and powerful it becomes your master.

— H. Beam Piper

I'm not a political comic at all, so it would be weird if I just turned into a preachy, sort-of political commentator.

— Lisa Lampanelli

“Arguments about language are usually arguments about politics, disguised and channeled through one of our most distinctive markers of identity.”

— Robert Lane Greene

The spirit of a government must be that of the country. The form of a government must come from the makeup of…

— Jose Marti

There is an urgent need for the Central government to take the lead in ensuring health and nutrition service delivery.

— Kapil Sibal

In my view, it is important that our national government exercise leadership to improve the resiliency of the entire nation in the…

— Matt Cartwright

In America the government took the land from the Indians and then established laws protecting private property.

— Alvin Francis Poussaint

Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money…

— Jesse Ventura

America is fed up with political correctness, and it is fed up with government that doesn't work. It's fed up with weakness…

— Newt Gingrich

The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.

— Thomas Jefferson

Our obligation to the people we serve is too important to place politics and partisanship before progress and results.

— Charlie Baker

Isn't the basis of a democracy to send somebody to Washington to bring something back for you? ... It isn't?

— Kobe Bryant

Governments should be role models of leadership and improve the utilization of ICT in all the governmental departments in order to improve…

— Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind.

— William Godwin

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of…

— William Beveridge

My government is committed to carrying out electoral reforms. It is our firm resolve to keep criminal elements away from power.

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

The political ramifications of our festering financial and economic crisis have reached the sidewalks of New York, as well as other large…

— Jerry A. Webman

My chair was nearest to the fire In every company That talked of love or politics, Ere Time transfigured me.

— William Butler Yeats

I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.

— Michelangelo Antonioni