Politics Quotes · Page 117

The purity of the critical ermine, like that of the judicial, is often soiled by contact with politics.

— Edwin Percy Whipple

I think it is wrong to balance the budget on the backs of local government.

— Nina Turner

I think it's important for the people to see the government is functioning...

— Ari Fleischer

It is hard to know what Sarah Palin means in Republican politics anymore.

— Rachel Maddow

It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I think most Americans don't really care about politicians bickering in Washington.

— Ted Cruz

The thing about politics is to plan 10 years ahead, and assume every year is your last.

— Ed Balls

Politics takes patience, time, listening and endless meetings.

— Dick Gephardt

We have made a full frontal attack on corruption. The question is whether we can address the question of governance in developing…

— James Wolfensohn

While these attitudes are more visible when directed at government, there is ample evidence that many working people distrust their own union…

— Robert Teeter

My actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies involved, despite the government's false claims.

— Kevin Mitnick

A republican stands up in congress and says 'I GOT A REALLY BAD IDEA!!' and the democrat stands up after him and…

— Lewis Black

The problem for large scientific projects is to do something that is being done for the first time, balanced against cost, schedule.…

— Barry Barish

The governments of Europe are afraid to trust the people with arms. If they did, the people would certainly shake off the…

— James Madison

If politicians in a state block education choice, it means those politicians do not support equal opportunity for all kids.

— Betsy DeVos

The insane have achieved political respectability while the sane act too good for it all. The irrational celebrate while the rational act…

— Maureen Dowd

Too many politicians are shifting the critical themes of our national conversations from a 'big ideas' American Brand Platform to narrowly focused,…

— Alan Siegel

Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that…

— James Madison

“They are often brave, I'm sure, but they are stupid, too, because they give their lives for governments and causes that use…

— Gregory David Roberts

The relative freedom which we enjoy depends of public opinion. The law is no protection. Governments make laws, but whether they are…

— George Orwell

We were very proud in the sense that we would never take any government handouts. My parents, God bless them, never took…

— Ken Wahl

It would be a mistake to believe that one could come to any substantive understanding of politics by discussing abstractly the good,…

— Raymond Geuss

I want to say that this business of corruption and the fight against corruption is a very serious matter, and sometimes I'm…

— Yemi Osinbajo

Voting is not an act of political freedom. It is an act of political conformity. Those who refuse to vote are not…

— Wendy McElroy

“No one can take away your Natural Rights, but they can do great damage making you think they can.”

— JSB Morse

I love the sharpness and political tone of RoboCop and I think that such a film is now urgently needed.

— Jose Padilha

We'd all like t'vote for th' best man, but he's never a candidate

— Kin Hubbard

“Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.”

— Otto von Bismarck

What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.

— Thomas Mann

Either you believe in markets, or you believe in government.

— Lawrence Kudlow

“Governments must be made for human beings as they are, or as they are capable of speedily becoming.”

— John Stuart Mill

No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.

— Camille Paglia

To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

E-governance easy governance, e-governance is economical governance.

— Narendra Modi

I love my country, but it's a very hard life, the life of a politician.

— Margaret Cuomo

For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.

— Gerry Adams

It's the role of a government to defend its soldiers and its citizens.

— Ehud Barak

Voting Labour in the past hasn't protected Scotland against Tory governments.

— Nicola Sturgeon

I've never really read any books about Washington, neither the politics nor the city.

— Bennie Thompson

Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose.

— James Ellroy