Politics Quotes · Page 643

“His own work within government had taught him that there are virtually no limits to a man’s greed and lust for power…

— C.A. Fail

There's no need to be fearful of me. I am involved in the welfare of people and giving them good governance.

— Yogi Adityanath

This is not about abortion or the antics. This is about pro choice versus anti-choice and government intervention in a woman's personal…

— Kathleen Turner

“Patriarchy, reformed or unreformed, is patriarchy still: its worst abuses purged or foresworn, it might actually be more stable and secure than…

— Kate Millett

I believe when hard-working citizens have earned their pension, it's wrong for Washington bureaucrats and politicians to take their pensions away.

— Josh Mandel

As the Internet breaks down the last justifications for a professional class of politicians, it also builds up the tools for replacing…

— Aaron Swartz

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.

— Pope Francis

The thought about Republicans is, we're supposed to be Jeffersonian. That government governs the best that governs the least.

— Pat Robertson

The worst thing you can do is to turn over your life to a political party that simply is going to use…

— Rush Limbaugh

I will go to the next election saying to Australians, vote for me, vote for the Liberal Party, and I will become…

— Malcolm Turnbull

“(Modern versions of this argument held that American democracy was born of the slave society of rural Virginia, because slavery gave men…

— Tom Reiss

Apathy is dead. Show them the face of evil - Satanists lurking among us - running our governments, our banks, our schools,…

— Dan Brown

“In seven counties it was necessary to issue search and seizure warrants or arrest warrants or both compelling colonial prothonotaries to turn…

— Francis Fox

“Why the conservatives, who controlled all three branches of the federal government, were still so enraged--at respectful skeptics of the Iraq War,…

— Jonathan Franzen

“The claimed legitimizing devices of political consent or personal labour served only to obscure the unjustifiable seizure of land from the common…

— Peter Vallentyne

Britain is no longer one of the world's price setters. It is painful. It is a challenge to us in government to…

— Vince Cable

Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.

— Benjamin Disraeli

I was in Australia for many years. And the system there is a two-party system and the government changes from time to…

— Frank Lowy

Of course I am partisan in my politics, but my partisanship is rational - which, in my book, is not necessarily oxymoronic.

— Sadiq Khan

There are some power-abusing, corrupt monsters in our federal government that despise me because I have the audacity to speak the truth.

— Ted Nugent

The Iranian government must respect the rights of all its minorities, release the seven leaders, and emancipate the Baha'i community.

— Omid Djalili

“That is the corrosive paradox of gender feminism's misandrist stance: no group of women can wage war on men without at the…

— Christina Hoff Sommers

“Yeah, but your mate Dave says the government always hushes things up, Nobby,” said Fred. “Well, they do.” “Except he always gets…

— Terry Pratchett

Popular and democratic government is the only constitution which suits France, and all those who are worthy of the name of men.

— Camille Desmoulins

The Pledge of Allegiance says "...with liberty and justice for all." What part of "all" don't you understand?

— Patricia Schroeder

My grandfather was a politician and lived in Washington, D.C., so as a kid, I used to go to D.C. every other…

— Alexandra Daddario

I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but…

— Theodore White

There's a certain clubbiness to the idea that you're an ex-president. You're no longer a politician. You're a statesman.

— Robert Dallek

“Socialism is not the same as social democracy, the political system that created Sweden’s welfare state.”

— Christina Johansson Robinowitz

The government of India regulates nearly everything, so there's very little progress; whereas in Hong Kong the government keeps its hands off...…

— John Templeton

I actually don't want to be an actor for the rest of my life. I'd like to go on to be a…

— Noah Gray-Cabey

I was really educating myself on the environment, but I didn't realize it was so connected to politics, connected to globalization.

— Stuart Townsend

All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get…

— Adam Carolla

To make us one nation as to foreign concerns, and keep us distinct in Domestic ones gives the outline of the proper…

— Thomas Jefferson

It is a duty for any government to uphold the rule of law, and this sometimes requires the proportionate use of force.

— Frans Timmermans

It is not safe in the republican form of government that clannishness should exist either by compulsory or voluntary reason. It is…

— Timothy Thomas Fortune

All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

— George Will

For Liberal Democrats, the political choice between the hard Brexit menus offered by Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt might seem about as…

— Ed Davey

Our long-term dream is for Singapore to have a healthy democracy where there are two or three parties who could form a…

— Pritam Singh

I think very few of us have a thick bold line on every given topic that falls neatly into the box of…

— Sharyl Attkisson