Politics Quotes · Page 152

I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.

— Al Franken

Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.

— Joyce Cary

Consciousness conceives, governs, constructs, and becomes the activity of the body.

— Deepak Chopra

Environment conservation without stagnating development is the objective of our government.

— Pinarayi Vijayan

I've always been interested in political service and community advocacy.

— Michael Tubbs

The U.S. victory in Gulf War was a stirring victory for the forces of aggression.

— Dan Quayle

There's a difference between 'political films' and 'films about Iraq.'

— Rod Lurie

The problem with politics isn't the money; it's the power.

— Harry Browne

Obama's Plan = 'Bitches get stitches.' Romney's Plan = 'Bitches get stitches assuming that bitch can afford healthcare.'

— Anonymous

From Day One the very existence of [Camp Bravo] has been a popcorn hull in the tender gums of the hard left.

— James Lileks

The Congress is dividing the country on the lines of caste and regions. We need a stable government to put the country…

— N. Chandrababu Naidu

The greater the hold of government upon the life of the individual citizen, the greater the risk of war.

— John Hospers

We're allowed to have had a private life before politics in which we make mistakes and do things we should not.

— David Dimbleby

When I was first elected I was puzzled why they were holding events in my honor as a mere freshman. I asked…

— Brian Baird

I can think of no better reason to vote against Obama than the prospect of an administration where any criticism of the…

— Glenn Reynolds

“មនុស្សដែលមើលងាយចំពោះការទុកចិត្តរបស់មនុស្សដទៃគឺជាមនុស្សថោកទាបបំផុត He who betrays other people's trust is the most contemptible man”

— Khem Veasna ខឹម វាសនា

I hate the idea of labels and saying you are member of one party or another and signing up to all sorts…

— Armando Iannucci

People rarely win wars, governments rarely lose them. People get killed. Governments moult and regroup, hydra-headed. They use flags first to shrink-wrap…

— Arundhati Roy

“Interest yourself in public affairs as a duty of citizenship, but do not surrender your faith to those who discredit and debase…

— Grover Cleveland

He was a superb military officer but he was also an extraordinarily gifted politician. That he was an unusually open, honest and…

— John McCain

It is the political task of the social scientist — as of any liberal educator — continually to translate personal troubles into…

— C. Wright Mills

“Legal and political theory have committed much mischief by failing to pinpoint physical invasion as the only human action that should be…

— Murray N. Rothbard

I know that in the battle of ideas, Republican politicians are at a distinct disadvantage. Their fundamental philosophy - which I characterize…

— John Yarmuth

Many of those on the right distrust the Fed and want to eliminate its power in the belief that the private economy,…

— Gerald Epstein

When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.

— Jim Hightower

The man who can sing when he hasn't got a thing, he's the king of the whole wide world.

— Elvis Presley

Many a man goes into politics with a fine future and comes out with a terrible past.

— Anonymous

As a very young poet, I had been brought up on that dogma that politics was bad for poetry.

— Adrienne Rich

Maybe that's because guns are sold at a profit, while schools are provided by the government.

— David Boaz

“A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away”

— Barry Goldwater

I don't have political agendas. I have social agendas.

— will.i.am

I think for voters what matters is the values that drive the government.

— Theresa May

I don't get involved in politics. I just blow my horn.

— Louis Armstrong

“Why don't more politicians list democracy as a belief?”

— David Akadjian

“Political sensitivity is as rare as footprints on quicksand.”

— Stewart Stafford

A great writer is, so to speak, a secret government in his country

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment.

— George Bernard Shaw

I generally think that Hillary Clinton is a good egg and a good politician.

— Joss Whedon

The intersection of religion and world politics has often been a bloody crossroads.

— Elliott Abrams

I always believed in burning up the government's political capital, not being Mr Safe Guy, you know?

— Paul Keating