Politics Quotes · Page 123

“War is a convenient fix for government problems if it happens somewhere else. To other people.”

— Sherwood Smith

When government does its job properly people are free to do theirs.

— Margaret Thatcher

If there is not justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government.

— Emiliano Zapata

We are soldiers of the cross, we've been found to reach the lost.

— Randy Travis

“Being absolute, and maintained by police force, a Government monopoly need not please its customers.”

— Rose Wilder Lane

A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted-in the air.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Seek ye first the political kingdom and all other else will be added unto it.

— Kwame Nkrumah

In today's world everything is political. We are a statement - our clothes, haircut, the way we act.

— Olga Tokarczuk

Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves.

— Bernard Baruch

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

— William E. Gladstone

My big subject as a historian is how Americans divide themselves. What are the divisions that structure our political lives. Richard Nixon…

— Rick Perlstein

If you spend enough time in or around Washington, you'll meet amazing people who work for the government.

— Judy Woodruff

The reason I give money to politicians within the limitations of the law is to allow them to put their message across…

— Haim Saban

“He felt that if people could understand that they are not the sons of some fatherland or other, nor of Governments, but…

— Peter Marshall

It would be so simple for the government to support farmers to become more profitable and farm sustainably.

— Kimbal Musk

Corporate governance is important for small- and medium-sized enterprises, but they can't do it in the same way as big companies.

— Fumio Kishida

We do need brothers and sisters to go into elected offices and political offices and do that, but my spirit is telling…

— Kwame Kilpatrick

I am a political animal, because for God's sakes I think "We The People" is a job. I think experienced self government…

— Ted Nugent

Partisanship should be kept out of the pulpit... The blindest of partisans are preachers. All politicians expect and find more candor, fairness,…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

“I propose another explanation: The reason so many Americans have become alienated from government since the poll of 1964 is that government…

— Charles Murray

When a government has ceased to protect the lives, liberty, and property of the people ... and ... becomes an instrument in…

— Sam Houston

Nothing is being done of any real significance. Our demand is the government must tell the truth about the crisis we're in.…

— Gail Bradbrook

“(Speaking of epidemics, one of three Native American women will be raped, and on the reservations 88 percent of those rapes are…

— Rebecca Solnit

In the compound republic of America, the power surrendered by the people is first divided between two distinct governments, and then the…

— James Madison

Remember, success for a politician is 50% plus one. You don't have to have everybody on board.

— Dick Cheney

“Democracy is a most accommodating and charming form of government, full of variety and diversity,”

— William De Witt Hyde

“The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small”

— Henry Kissinger

Memory is a political act. Forgetfulness is the handmaiden of tyranny.

— James Carroll

No one can be considered untouchable on political grounds.

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

The folks you help won't remember it and the folks you hurt won't ever forget it.

— Bill W. Clayton

“I believe the term is ‘eminent domain.’ Ah, yes. That means ‘theft by the government,”

— Terry Pratchett

I think politics in general are just like a popularity contest but McCain is just... old.

— D. L. Hughley

I don't ever want to play the part of a statistic on a government chart.

— The Police

A thoughtful and well-informed consideration of US government in relation to American society.

— Ian Harris

You can provide better services for less if you get the federal government out of the way.

— Mick Mulvaney

Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government.

— Graham Chapman

The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The American people might have a criminal syndicate running their government.

— Cynthia McKinney

Keeping government running really well, to me, is incredibly important.

— Joe Lonsdale

“Boredom is often a useful instrument in politics. Never underestimate it.”

— Harold Wilson