Politics Quotes · Page 1,789

I grew up in Ireland, so I do not have a lot of respect for most politicians.

— Jasmine Guinness

It's not enough to say that the Olympics is an athletic contest outside of politics, because it's not. The Chinese clearly are…

— Richard Gere

The morality of a [political] party must grow out of the conscience and the participation of the voters.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I have to leave the government in the year 2012. I have to go.

— Hugo Chavez

Free government cannot long endure if property is largely in a few hands, and large masses of people are unable to earn…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

I doubt very much if a man whose main literary interests were in works by Mr. Zane Grey, admirable as they may…

— Dean Acheson

Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.

— Harry Browne

The government of Iran claims that every two years there are elections. But none of them are free.

— Shirin Ebadi

“Let’s get this clear up front: women deserve human rights because they are human and they deserve to play a part in…

— Jane Caro

“I've always resented the smug statements of politicians, media commentators, corporate executives, who talked of how, in America, if you worked hard,…

— Howard Zinn

Politics, or controversy, or party spirit, or worldliness, have eaten out the heart of lively piety in too many of us. The…

— J. C. Ryle

Usually, a state's voters don't want their politicians to run for president.

— Harry Enten

When I started 'NOTA,' I didn't know a thing about Tamil politics.

— Vijay Deverakonda

In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of…

— Baron de Montesquieu

In short, killing the goose that lays the golden egg is a viable political strategy, so long as the goose does not…

— Thomas Sowell

I admire politicians. It is a really tough assignment, and I would fall at the first fence.

— Joanna Lumley

In a divided government, you can't just say, 'It's my way or the highway.'

— Jeb Bush

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

— Benjamin Disraeli

The President has apologized for his activities with Monica Lewinsky. These were too little, too late, in my opinion.

— Barbara Cubin

“For political leaders in a democracy are not revolutionaries or leaders of creative thought. The best of them are those who respond…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

Our long-term objective is clear: to replace the Labour Party as the progressive wing of politics in this country.

— Jo Grimond

When a government controls both the economic power of individuals and the coercive power of the state ... this violates a fundamental…

— P. J. O'Rourke

What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again.

— Anonymous

There's nothing wrong with talking out loud in public, but there is something wrong with the government sucking up all those utter…

— Clive Thompson

Liberty is the breath of progress.

— Robert Green Ingersoll