Politics Quotes · Page 22

Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on…

— Gary Bauer

“The night we met, we started off with coffee and politics, but it was one of those nights where you just can't…

— Steph Campbell

Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go…

— Meg Whitman

Government can't give us anything without depriving us of something else.

— Henry Hazlitt

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I started traveling out of curiosity, but I have come to believe in travel's political importance, that encouraging a nation's citizenry to…

— Andrew Solomon

Political correctness is a major defect of the western ethos. Some Western countries have even passed blasphemy laws that would put you…

— Ali Sina

I think that the best that government can do for you and I as individuals is to empower you and I to…

— Gary Johnson

Democracy is an awful way to run a country, but it's the best system we have.

— Winston Churchill

The Smithsonian Institute is one of the most popular agencies of government in the United States.

— Norm Dicks

When you have the Chief of Staff of the Republican National Committee and the political director of the Romney campaign, and their…

— Patrick Caddell

The other thing we did as government is to open gates for the civilians to leave that [ eastern part] area [in…

— Bashar al-Assad

I think we have a bubble in the US in government bonds, because of the quantitative easing and the negative real interest…

— Peter Thiel

“We allowed ourselves to accept the politics of inevitability, the sense that history could move in only one direction: toward liberal democracy...We…

— Timothy Snyder

People are tired of wasteful government programs and welfare chiselers, and they are angry about the constant spiral of taxes and government…

— Ronald Reagan

Conservatism is about the basic rights of individuals. God created us. As far as the government goes, the Founding Fathers based the…

— Joe Wurzelbacher

Nothing is more urgent than a serious, dare I say compassionate, debate as to where we are going at home and abroad.…

— Henry A. Kissinger

It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible. Do not ever let anyone claim to be a…

— George Washington

[A]n Obama presidency would be an amusing approximation of the Carter administration, complete with vaporous moralizing and foreign policy bungling.

— Emmett Tyrrell

To the labor of man alone Smith ascribes the power of producing values. This is an error. A more exact analysis demonstrates...…

— Jean-Baptiste Say

He's earned all his money himself, with his fists. He didn't steal it like the rest of our politicians. And he'll be…

— Vitali Klitschko

“In many ways, after many decades, many billions of dollars, and countless advances in technology, the federal government’s basic plan to escape…

— Garrett M. Graff

When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War…

— Andrea Mitchell

Latin America's economies are organized in a way that concentrates wealth in a few hands but then leaves it untaxed, depriving governments…

— Denise Dresser

Remarkably, governments are beginning to embrace the idea that nothing enhances democracy more than giving voice and information to everybody in the…

— Mo Ibrahim