Politics Quotes · Page 131

Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom.

— John Bolton

[V]irtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.

— George Washington

“For one change always leaves the toothing for another.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

We don't have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything.

— Bill Mollison

If tolerance and kindness and acceptance and love are political, then I guess I am political.

— Karen Fairchild

There's probably no major city more associated with left-wing politics than San Francisco.

— Harry Enten

“moral thinking is more like a politician searching for votes than a scientist searching for truth:”

— Jonathan Haidt

I have been persecuted since I joined politics, and I have been living in persecution since then.

— Roy Bennett

The UPA government talks more and works less. Most of its schemes look impressive on paper while they are not implemented properly…

— Jaya Prada

“There are no longer natural famines in the world; there are only political famines. If people in Syria, Sudan or Somalia starve…

— Yuval Noah Harari

I suffer from the curse of being multi-talented. There's no doubt about it. Politics and literature have gotten in the way of…

— Kinky Friedman

“The only thing more dangerous than a politician who thinks about re-election, is a politician who doesn't think about re-election.”

— James Carville

When someone says, 'I'm not political,' I feel like what they're saying is, 'I only care about myself. In my bathtub. Me…

— Julianne Moore

The whole argument with the anti-suffragists, or even the critical suffragist man, is this: that you can govern human beings without their…

— Emmeline Pankhurst

If the only people who can succeed in politics are people who go in at 25, that'd be too bad. That'd be…

— Michael Ignatieff

And for well over a hundred years our politicians, statesmen, and people remembered that this was a republic, not a democracy, and…

— Anonymous

Regardless of the Islamophobia, where we have gone wrong in the Democratic Party and the American left is to play wholeheartedly into…

— Sam Rasoul

When we look at the astonishing material achievements of the West. we see these things as the result, not of compulsion or…

— Enoch Powell

Failing to curb the impact of climate change could damage the global economy on the scale of the Great Depression or the…

— Nicholas Stern

“I’m done with all the stupid shit. I’m done with politicians, the rich taxing the poor. I’m done with organised religions, profiting…

— Timothy Decker

Democracy destroys the unity of the Rumanian nation, dividing it among political parties, making Rumanians hate one another, and thus exposing a…

— Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

For nearly two centuries, scholars and politicians have debated the future of capitalism. Its critics, most prominent among them Karl Marx, have…

— Raghuram Rajan

..either immediately or ultimately every dollar of government spending must be raised through a dollar of taxation. Once we look at the…

— Henry Hazlitt

I want to see far more decisions taken far closer to the patients, the passengers and the pupils. Far more power for…

— Charles Kennedy

It's crucial to democracy and good government to scrutinize our public officials.

— Ana Navarro

Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold... has its natural and its market price.

— David Ricardo

Next to courage, willpower is the most important thing in politics.

— Paul Johnson

“Politicians are the sole cause of our incurable social eczema”

— Munia Khan

After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.

— George C. Wallace

I'm entitled to my political opinions, and I get to vote because I'm an American.

— David Mamet

How is the government going to get the extra taxes? Out of the rich, or just out of the poor, as usual?

— Will Rogers

Al Gore couldn't be more phony if he were a professional Al Gore impersonator

— Dennis Miller

“...if that Watergate case ever gets into court, he might get very nervous.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

I think the terror most people are concerned with is the IRS.

— Malcolm Forbes

"Religious Socialism," "Christian Socialism," are expressions implying a contradiction in terms.

— Pope Pius XI

I told the government I'd volunteer for prison, as long as it served the right purpose,

— Edward Snowden

Hope is the fuel of progress and fear is the prison in which you put yourself.

— Tony Benn

One of the things it's so important for any city government is to have the trust of the public.

— Maya Wiley

I was obsessed with politics in the '80s. I've recovered and I'm feeling much better now, thank you.

— Steven Van Zandt

The armament of the government is legal armament. Any other armament is not legal.

— Bashar al-Assad