Politics Quotes · Page 111

The elections are the greatest symbol of participation and political reform,

— Mohammad Khatami

The newly passive George Bush has become something of an embarrassment.

— Tony Snow

I think I do want to go into politics. I really, really do. And I don't know if I will.

— Alec Baldwin

“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.”

— Winston S. Churchill

Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government.

— Hugo Black

Biophobia is as much a part of a politician's basic equipment as a sharp suit.

— John Derbyshire

In the end, the responsibility of government abuse lies with the president.

— Mercedes Schlapp

Mitt Romney is a nice guy. But, we know where nice guys finish in politics.

— Mark McKinnon

We've got to ensure that the quality and the capability of these forces will be good enough to withstand the challenges that…

— John Abizaid

The mayor of New York is the chief executive of the city. It is a complex organization and it requires the requisite…

— Joe Lhota

Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men. Everybody knows that government never began anything. It is the whole world that…

— Wendell Phillips

He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

There's something fundamentally wrong with a system where there's been 17 years of a Tory Government and the people of Scotland have…

— Sean Connery

I don't pay much mind to politricks. Never met a politician who wouldn't try to convince you that salt was sugar.

— Nalo Hopkinson

You will do very well to refuse offices; for a man seldom fails to give offense in them. It ought to weary…

— St. Catherine of Siena

We never pay anyone Dane-geld, No matter how trifling the cost; For the end of that game is oppression and shame, And…

— Rudyard Kipling

Government grew under [Ronald] Reagan. He was the strongest opponent of free markets in the post-war history among presidents. But it doesn't…

— Noam Chomsky

“From time to time our national history has been marred by forgetfulness of the Jeffersonian principle that restraint is at the heart…

— John F. Kennedy

“There are two kinds of politicians,’ he said: ‘insiders and outsiders. The outsiders prioritize their freedom to speak their version of the…

— Yanis Varoufakis

The president doesn't order the military to seize political opponents. He doesn't order his intelligence community to lie about national security for…

— Kathleen Troia McFarland

“...and I sometimes think that the fading out of the individual personality is what one should desire, not the status of a…

— Hilary Mantel

I met too frankly preposterous, if it weren't for their banal evil, politicians and pastors who told knowing lies about the evils…

— Stephen Fry

We have a broken system, and we need politicians who are going to fix it. We need someone who's going to govern…

— Diane Guerrero

“the rich and powerful are always taken care of. This corruption is turning government into a tool of those who have already…

— Elizabeth Warren

“can you tell when a politician is lying? When he moves his lips!”

— Paul Ekman

Here in England the welfare of the State depends on the conduct of our aristocracy.

— Anthony Trollope

Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today - and longed for them tomorrow.

— Abba Eban

For me popular violence is as much an obstruction in our path as the Government violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Show me a clever nation; then I will show you a clever government!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“A nation with minimum laws will have maximum laughter.”

— Amit Kalantri

I think when you've been a career politician for 34 years you have to run on your record.

— Carly Fiorina

Today's political climate does not allow the luxury of apathy.

— Trent Reznor

I happen to be one who believes very strongly that state and local governments have their proper roles.

— Don Nickles

“God save me from politicians, Christians, or pagans who think they are my mother!”

— Steve Brown

Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

— James Russell Lowell

“Presidents are not elected anymore; they are hired.”

— Michel Templet

In politics, manipulating reality can take presidence over finding reality.

— George Soros

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

— Hugo Chavez

You shouldn't listen to my music for political messages.

— Brad Paisley

There is a lack of leadership outside the Beltway, outside of politics.

— Danny Glover