Politics Quotes · Page 646

I work on a political subject quite often, and the paintings, for me, are not finished until they're printed.

— Erro

I am a communist and my painting is a communist painting. But if I were a shoemaker, Royalist or Communist or anything…

— Pablo Picasso

If I have tried to bring anything to federal politics, it is the idea that hope and optimism should be at their…

— Jack Layton

It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which…

— Todd Akin

Today, more than ever, we need political leaders who can see the big picture, who understand the relationship between the economy and…

— Lester R. Brown

Delhi government doesn't have the power to open new colleges. Once Delhi gets full statehood, this is a very big issue that…

— Atishi

Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

I left my business to run for the Senate because I believe the government needs to run more like a business.

— Mike Braun

“The numbers were, at best, guesstimates, and all three men knew it. The relevant figure would ultimately be the one that represented…

— Andrew Ross Sorkin

“These are tough times for state governments. Huge deficits loom almost everywhere, from California to New York, from New Jersey to Texas.…

— Paul Krugman

True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money. They can open the…

— Ludwig von Mises

“rethinking Lenin. W here Negri and Badiou reject the Party and the State, Zizek retains a certain fidelity to Lenin. "The key…

— Anonymous

The so-called consumer society and the politics of corporate capitalism have created a second nature of man which ties him libidinally and…

— Herbert Marcuse

Those great and glorious actions that dazzle our eyes with their luster are represented by statesmen as the result of great wisdomand…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“A government that spoke of military glory as an aim would betray ignorance of, or contempt for, the spirit of nations and…

— Benjamin Constant De Rebecque

Rome was in the most dangerous inclination to change on account of the unequal distribution of wealth and property, those of highest…

— Plutarch

The federal government needs to do a much better job of managing our resources, but the sale or transfer of our land…

— Ryan Zinke

I've a problem with the word charity because I think that NGOs, as I prefer calling them, really do take the work…

— Emma Thompson

The problem with us EU politicians is that we approach everything with cool rationality, and then wonder why we don't win people…

— Martin Schulz

I think it's very important for the Chinese people, the Chinese government to build lots of hockey rinks, bring some coaches here…

— Alexander Ovechkin

If your basic premise about the fundamental purpose of our government is that it must provide for the common defense, then no…

— Don Nickles

“The experience taught him [Salvador Allende] too late that a system cannot be changed from the government but from the power.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

“The paradigm that government should have a monopoly of small arms implies the surreal normative postulate that citizens—or, rather, subjects—should be treated…

— Stephen P. Halbrook

For all their talk about the virtues of democracy, many incumbent politicians really don't like it when voters have a voice-not if…

— Paul Jacob

Consumers, unlike voters, expect an immediate response to their concerns; and companies, unlike governments, do not have the luxury of a mid-term…

— Noreena Hertz

I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.

— Barry Goldwater

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.

— Harry S Truman

If you want to get things done in life, you don't go into politics. If you want to get things done in…

— Noel Edmonds

The government can build institutional infrastructure to address the paradox of floods and calamities in some parts of the country, and water…

— Ram Nath Kovind

Confronted by menace, or what is perceived as menace, governments will usually attempt to smash it, rarely to examine it, understand it,…

— Barbara Tuchman

Pretending we haven't made mistakes, carrying on as if everyone can't see that we have made them, and hoping that things will…

— Suella Braverman

Reflecting on the past, where the film industry became united with 'national interest' and 'national policy,' I tend to think that keeping…

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

This was my prayer: an adequate portion of land with a garden and a spring of water and a small wood to…

— Horace

In the West, we feel the devastating effects of one misguided, half-baked government program after another.

— Lauren Boebert

The American people want their government to act, and not merely to talk, whenever and wherever there is a threat to world…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.

— George Jones

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government, but civilization itself.

— Gerald R. Ford

From the time I was elected to parliament, I was not voting for the government. I was sure it did not have…

— Petro Poroshenko

“The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.”

— Charles Slack

Cleopatra was on a political mission to save her country and her power, but what we remember about her are these two…

— Stacy Schiff