Politics Quotes · Page 135

I hate big government; I hate being told what to do on a personal basis.

— Nigel Farage

In a way, the most political thing you can do is be yourself.

— Boy George

No government should ever make you afraid to talk to your kids.

— Leslyn Lewis

I got quarters in my loafers trying to fight inflation when it only used to take a cent.

— Jimmy Buffett

“Let us make sure that the supreme fact of the 20th century is that they tread the same path.”

— Winston Churchill

We the people tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us.

— Ronald Reagan

No one is friend or enemy for permanent thats called the diplomacy and politics...

— Gaurav Chavan

The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.

— Breyten Breytenbach

We decided that the environment was an integral part of our policies and the political thrust of our government. We gave it…

— Brian Mulroney

All governments like the ignorant, because their existence depends on them! If the society becomes wise, governments cannot survive, at least the…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he…

— Orson Scott Card

I think if you look at the realm we're discussing, which is the political realm, I think it would be impossible to…

— Kenneth C. Griffin

How can thinking people believe that a government that cannot deliver the mail can deliver gas better than Exxon, Mobil, Texaco, Gulf,…

— Milton Friedman

“He died a suspicious death. But only because he was a politician, and everything he did was suspicious.”

— Jarod Kintz

The average political poem - especially the kind that wears this label all too proudly - is both dull and full of…

— Andre Naffis-Sahely

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts, and politicians violently denounce the politicians of other countries.

— Margaret Sanger

“The only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion. Without this there can be no…

— Benjamin Rush

“Great nations, and even medium-sized ones, can always seek revision of frontiers by normal diplomatic means - if the political climate is…

— Miklós Bánffy

But if the 1 percent and the 0.1 percent are respected and allowed to risk their wealth - and new rebels are…

— George Gilder

“The liberal state has no view on whether witchcraft is more valuable than all-in wrestling. Like a tactful publican, it has as…

— Terry Eagleton

Demography isn't destiny. It's an opportunity. Joe Biden, Arizona Democrats and activists seized that opportunity in Arizona. We showed how Democrats can…

— Ruben Gallego

A pure Democracy, by which I mean a Society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the Government…

— James Madison

My design always has a political agenda. When I borrow components from various cultures and juxtapose them in an object, it is…

— Marcel Wanders

On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic?…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Governments grow as God declines, in both Europe and the United States

— Dennis Prager

“We never questioned the government, ma'am." -Guard "That was your problem." -Melanie Adams”

— Rosie Scott

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

— Thomas Jefferson

“I am looking forward to the departure of the corrupt Obama administration in 2017.”

— Steven Magee

Good governance needs self-discipline. Only discipline within can ensure discipline without.

— Narendra Modi

The government under Manmohan Singh is treating all political partners in a dignified manner.

— Sharad Pawar

It is often said by reformers that government should be conducted upon business principles.

— John Buchanan Robinson

Its sad that governments are chiefed by the double tongues.

— Ten Bears

Virginians are counting on us to put politics aside and deliver for them.

— Glenn Youngkin

I dont usually make political comments, because I am a businessman, not a politician.

— John Gokongwei

I feel pretty disillusioned about the politics and politicians in this country - and angry.

— Lesley Sharp

The one constant in politics is change and things that are happening today are not happening tomorrow.

— Francis X. Suarez

“Men seeking power only acknowledged fact insofar as it supported their ambitions.”

— Curtis Craddock

The less of government the better, if society were kept in peace and prosperity.

— William Ellery Channing

I hate injustice, and I can't help but speak against it. But I don't want to get involved in politics.

— Serj Tankian