Politics Quotes · Page 794

“Otto would pull the trigger at the slightest provocation and you, Michael, would agonize aver its morality even if your life were…

— Arthur C. Clarke

Politicians in their hubris who believe they can ignore debt or wish it away are sorely disappointed - as we see now…

— Victor Davis Hanson

I think we need government to play a part in having a health policy that makes nursing care available for the increasing…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

Team Obama is exploiting the power of high government office to intimidate lawful, peaceful contributors who support limited-government causes.

— Michelle Malkin

“In a world devoid of towering political leaders, we seem to have become experts at growing idiots & elevating them to important positions.”

— Mamur Mustapha

“It is a feature of government that the more important the problem, the further it tends to be removed from handling by…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“for politics is in its essence as Adams had said the 'systematic organiztion of hatred': either you were organized or you were…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Results for "It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians”

— Henrik Ibsen

Keep your opinions to yourself. I think it's important that I stay neutral on politics and remain hard to understand. I don't…

— Merle Haggard

The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It's not in the interests of the self-serving government to educate the masses to the point where they are smart enough to…

— Christina Engela

The successful politician owes his power to the fact that he moves within the accepted framework of thought, that he thinks and…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

I think Katrina is one more indication of how inefficient and corrupt this Administration is, and indicates the absolute lack of seriousness…

— Bernie Sanders

County government can be simplified greatly by reorganizing and consolidating some of the offices, making others appointive, and reducing salaries in keeping…

— Arthur Capper

I think all of us could insist on preserving the truth and preserving the peace. We could insist that political candidates tell…

— Jimmy Carter

“Political tags — such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth — are never basic criteria. The human…

— Robert A. Heinlein

The failure of Lehman may have allowed the government to do more to prop up the economy than it otherwise could.

— Andrew Ross Sorkin

A short exposure to the convention convinced me that the Internet may save the Democracy in that it is a way for…

— John Jay Hooker

“Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue. In what other profession would you brag…

— Tina Fey

What I've tried to do in politics is two very simple things: tell the truth and do what I said I would…

— Ted Cruz

I think that political coverage generally comes in on a level that means if you live and breathe Westminster detail and diary,…

— Kate Garraway

A government full of Democrats would rather have you be a Republican, and a government full of Republicans would rather have you…

— Brian Celio

If a government commission had worked on the horse, you would have the first horse that could operate its knee joint in…

— Peter Drucker

I despise favoritism. Those who I have met that do so is why I ignore there blah blah blah with no Jazz…

— Jennifer Amorelli

Gold is a relic from a time when government's were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now.

— John Maynard Keynes

If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule…

— Plato

I think that for anybody who has worked in the civil society, government bureaucracy moves very very slowly.

— Wangari Maathai

Have you ever taken a serious political stand on anything? Yeah. Sure. For twenty-four hours once I refused to eat grapes.

— Woody Allen

I'm not a big government guy. I believe in private industries taking care of people. I think they do a better job.

— Scott Baio

“I put the hop in IHOP, and jumped on my pan of pancakes and then on to Panama. That’s standard government issued…

— Jarod Kintz

As the American people have discovered, soaring rhetoric is no substitute for effective leadership on the key issues facing our nation: jobs,…

— Kevin Brady

Just like American families, government agencies need to start doing more with less, and the Internal Revenue Service is no exception.

— Charles Boustany

Now a lot of us are preachers, and all of us have our moral convictions and concerns, and so often have problems…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We should have been there shoulder to shoulder with our allies. Our concern is the instability of our government as an ally.…

— Stephen Harper

Any politician is always looking for a format where they can show who they really are, show their true selves.

— Daniel Pfeiffer

If you think about making a city that is much more porous, many accessible spaces, that is a political position, because you…

— Zaha Hadid

If this is a war, my side has the nuclear bomb. We have K Street. We have Wall Street. Debbie doesn't have…

— Warren Buffett

“✡ Before aligning the body to the future, the mind has to straighten out from the impairment of religion.”

— David L Lloyd

Governments that invest billions in new hardware still find it hard to accept that they might benefit just as much from systematic…

— Geoff Mulgan

A treasure does not always contribute to the political security of its possessors. It rather invites attack, and very seldom is faithfully…

— Jean-Baptiste Say