Politics Quotes · Page 104

Some people say that watching pay freezes in the government is like watching water freeze. It expands.

— Darrell Issa

Folk art has never been much about politics; it's about action and utility.

— Cass McCombs

The Constitution is a radical document... it is the job of the government to rein in people's rights.

— William J. Clinton

I'm not very party-political, really; I am more strategic than that.

— Cornelia Parker

“The ‘do nothing everything will be all right’ default plan is determined by the IRS and government.”

— Sean Novinson

“As for the politicians, like everyone else in America, they were motivated by money, not ideals.”

— Charles Dickens

Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society.

— James Madison

In politics, you have your word and your friends; go back on either and you're dead.

— Morton Blackwell

China's government is so strong on investment, so strong on exporting, but they're too weak on domestic consumption.

— Jack Ma

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

— Horace

“When you see a child starving and you think government failed. But I think God failed , could not even fill the…

— John Art

Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree and then mount the stump to make a speech…

— Adlai Stevenson

Even in non-democratic countries, people have a legitimate interest in knowing about actions taken by the government.

— Peter Singer

I think it's very hard for a woman to be treated as a person and not just as a woman who tries…

— Baran Odar

A Syriza government will respect Greece's obligation as a eurozone member to maintain a balanced budget and will commit to quantitative targets.

— Alexis Tsipras

I am struggling to maintain the government, not to overthrow it. I am struggling especially to prevent others from overthrowing it.

— Abraham Lincoln

We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics... but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs…

— Dario Fo

There is something very consistent about governance in the Arab world. Among the Arab countries today in which there is a modicum…

— Michael Totten

“ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as…

— G.K. Chesterton

It has been suggested by some people in this country that I and my government will be a "soft touch" in the…

— Margaret Thatcher

I do think that the elections of 2010 and 2012 are going to determine the trajectory of the country. Either we're going…

— George Allen

Part of it is eight years of a black president, and white America still lost their [minds] about that. Part of it…

— Junot Diaz

“Returning to Washington,FDR declared that Yalta Conference had put and end to the kind of balance-of-power divisions that had long marred global…

— Madeleine Albright

Ultimately, if people lose their willingness to recognize that there are times in our history when legality becomes distinct from morality, we…

— Edward Snowden

I am an anti-Conservative politician, and that's how I would lead our party.

— Ed Davey

I don't bring politics, religion or media to the table.

— Jim Breuer

I just feel like I'm a very lucky person to have a new life outside of politics.

— Ann Richards

The rapists of the intellectual world become politicians; the seducers become artists.

— Robert Anton Wilson

No government knows any limits to its power except the endurance of the people.

— Lysander Spooner

For voters what matters is what government actually delivers for them.

— Theresa May

In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.

— Youssou N'Dour

You can wait forever for perfect conditions or you can make do with what you have.

— Jack Layton

He is only a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of the Conservative.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Mankind's problems can no longer be solved by national governments. What is needed is world government.

— Jan Tinbergen

We should be able to be ourselves. Make a political stand if you want to

— Loretta Swit

I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.

— Rodney Dangerfield

Having the democrats watch your money is like having Michael Vick watch your dog for the weekend

— Tim Pawlenty

In truth I care little about any party's politics—the man behind it is the important thing.

— Mark Twain

I have always stayed out of politics, I don't believe it would be appropriate to talk about it.

— Kirsty Coventry

Every time I fill a vacant office, I make ten malcontents and one ingrate.

— Louis XIV