Politics Quotes · Page 723

The Castro government is disproportionately white given the color of the island. It doesn't look like Cuba.

— Mark Falcoff

I'm used to politicians being angry with me, you know, because I don't work for them. I work for my viewers.

— Megyn Kelly

To fully absorb the lessons of the Internet, urge the Internet-centrists, we need to reshape our political and social institutions in its…

— Evgeny Morozov

My husband is an opposition MP. Our political alliance may have fallen through, but our matrimonial alliance is intact.

— Sushma Swaraj

“The vitriol and viciousness is the inevitable result of a government increasingly deciding the vital aspects of people's lives.”

— A.E. Samaan

“The digital board needs to know when to push the gas pedal to accelerate the business speed, and when to push the…

— Pearl Zhu

“No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to flee and fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right…

— Jesse Jackson

Society can progress if men's labors show a profit - if they yield more than is put in. To produce at a…

— Bernard Baruch

With respect to the northeastern boundary of the United States, no official correspondence between this Government and that of Great Britain has…

— Martin Van Buren

I support people having a gun in public full stop, not just in your home. We don't have the right to bear…

— Vince Vaughn

“Critical thinking is essential to make sense of our world, especially with advertisers and politicians all telling us loudly that they know…

— Helen Czerski

It is a misfortune incident to republican government, though in a less degree than to other governments, that those who administer it,…

— James Madison

Yet the basic fact remains: every regulation represents a restriction of liberty, every regulation has a cost. That is why, like marriage…

— Margaret Thatcher

“My generals should be like bull terriers on chains, and they should want war, war, war ... But what happens now? I…

— Adolf Hitler

...the essence of the evil government is that it anticipates bad conduct on the part of its citizens. Any government which assumes…

— Philip K. Dick

There are certainly people for whom politics is not a category that helps you understand human existence. In fact, it's kind of…

— Tony Kushner

Teachers who have committed their lives to the classroom deserve better than our politics has given them.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way.

— Hunter S. Thompson

I think every film is somehow a political film. You show a perspective and a world that has logic, and that logic…

— Pablo Larrain

The most important assets we have are our bodies and our energy which can be put to good use as resources in…

— Cornel West

It is doubtful that the government knows much more than the public does about how government [Economic] policies will work.

— W. Allen Wallis

You can judge the moral bearing of a political system, a political institution, a political man by the degree of danger they…

— Roque Dalton

I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.

— Oliver Stone

Our American government has strayed too far from American values. It is time to move forward. The country we carry in our…

— Bruce Springsteen

“The sense that just about anything goes with the collection of public revenues and the making of public expenditure has contributed mightily…

— Richard Epstein

I read a lot of history. It has taught me that any politician has to overcome difficult periods in order to achieve…

— Pierre Poilievre

“Where there is darkness, there is chaos and confusion, but when light shines, things are set in order and the light rules…

— Sunday Adelaja

“The Golden Mean is for the weakling, it was not meant for the likes of Alexander the Great, Cyrus, Pharaohs, or Hitlers…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

Everything that has happened in my life is because of good government and because the United States of America was the greatest…

— Andrew Young

“Politicians who are not contemplating early retirement usually find survival more attractive than martyrdom.”

— Herman E. Talmadge

If the U.S. government is serious about fighting irregular migration, it should support and encourage legal migration.

— Nayib Bukele

I grew up with a very privileged background. My father served as one of the cabinet ministers in Arroyo's government, and he's…

— Miguel Syjuco

“Politics in Turkey are taken more seriously than they are at home. It was only quite recently that they executed a Prime…

— Graham Greene

The conduct of a wise politician is ever suited to the present posture of affairs. Often by foregoing a part he saves…

— Plutarch

Without commonly shared and widely entrenched moral values and obligations, neither the law, nor democratic government, nor even the market economy will…

— Vaclav Havel

We have been mandated by the government, backed by legislation, that we have to have an inflation target of about 4%.

— Urjit Patel

The optimistic side of me hopes that the majority of people look at what's going on in politics today and in the…

— Edwin Hodge

Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.

— Alain Badiou

When Congress passed the Help America Vote Act in 2002, I was thrilled to learn that the federal government would offer resources…

— DeForest Soaries

There is no escaping this fight. It is civilization or Jihadism. We can and should debate tactics; but the sides are clear…

— Andrew Sullivan