Politics Quotes · Page 121

Government doesn't work. That's the first lesson we must learn if we want to improve society.

— Harry Browne

Donald Rumsfeld. Love him or hate him, you've gotta admit: a lot of people hate him.

— Jon Stewart

It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.

— Eliot Spitzer

I don't run a woman government. I run a government of people.

— Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

People have the right to come and choose their own political solutions.

— Mairead Corrigan

The only leader America should ever have is someone who understands that the people are the government.

— Eric Metaxas

There's nothing more oily and cynical in politics than telling the truth.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Socialism, hypnotism, patriotism, materialism, fools making laws for the breaking of jaws.

— Bob Dylan

I'm a longtime believer in the old adage that sunlight is the best disinfectant, particularly in politics.

— Mike Quigley

The purpose of the UN mechanism, this inspection mechanism, is not to engage in a cat and mouse game with Saddam Hussein…

— Anonymous

It takes a particularly rarified variety of idiot to look at a Jew-hating fascist with a small mustache - and decide that…

— James Lileks

“Genua had once controlled the river mouth and taxed its traffic in a way that couldn't be called piracy because it was…

— Terry Pratchett

“Demagogues and psychopaths dominated the political scene, and prejudice and intolerance were poisoning everything,”

— David Lagercrantz

They need to review this secret world. We have an incredibly powerful government that gets on automatic pilot.

— Bob Woodward

There are occasions when the general belief of the people, even though it be groundless, works its effect as sure as truth…

— Friedrich Schiller

“If any class deserves to be protected and assisted by the government, it is the class who are banished from their native…

— Joseph O Connor

I do honestly believe the Republicans have reformed and want to do better. But whether they have done it in time to…

— Will Rogers

You and I have formerly seen warm debates and high political passions. But gentlemen of different politics would then speak to each…

— Thomas Jefferson

The political process does not end on Election Day. Young people need to stay involved in the process by continuing to pay…

— Patrick Murphy

I'm witnessing the problems that the federal government is passing down in terms of drones, in violation of our civil liberties, spying…

— Matt Rosendale

“I grabbed the oh-shit handle with one hand and whooped, bracing the other hand on the dashboard. I couldn’t help myself. Everything…

— Mira Grant

“Damned Beaver/Jeremy is the War, he is every assertion the fucking War has ever made--that we are meant for work and government,…

— Thomas Pynchon

“Ngo Diem was heard to say, “I want a repressive machine controlling the whole of the country of South Vietnam from Saigon…

— Michael G. Kramer

You know Lincoln's famous remark about "God must have loved the common people, because he made so many of them?" Well, you…

— Will Rogers

As I have said, the best Bush strategy is to put Congress on TV as often as possible.

— Glenn Reynolds

I'm not going to do anything that heralds in a Tory government.

— Nicola Sturgeon

Lord, there's danger in this land, you get witch hunts and wars when church and state hold hands.

— Joni Mitchell

The government burns down whole cities while the people are forbidden to light lamps.

— Mao Zedong

“You cannot get them to talk of politics so long as they are well employed,”

— Robert L. Heilbroner

Sports Direct should come with a government health warning - this stock is not for the fainthearted.

— Mike Ashley

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.

— Emma Goldman

I understand politics and I know there's gonna be a lot of verbage.

— George W. Bush

David Boaz has been my guide to the history, economics, and politics of freedom for years.

— John Stossel

Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.

— Thomas Jefferson

It's very important to vote. People died for this right.

— Lenny Kravitz

I know Eric Schmidt, and he has different political views from mine. But I think he's a terrific guy.

— Julian Robertson

I have a sustained distrust for all politicians, even those with whom I agree on more issues than not.

— Dana Loesch

I don't have time for politics. There is a mission, and that is to save lives.

— Carmen Yulin Cruz

If you're going to play the game [politics] properly, you'd better know every rule.

— Barbara Jordan

We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone else is politics.

— Hubert H Humphrey