Politics Quotes · Page 153

I'm into politics, and I love watching the heavier news magazine shows.

— Chelsea Handler

If I was a politician right now I would change just about everything.

— David Coverdale

In politics, your enemies cant hurt you, but your friends will kill you.

— Azgraybebly Joslan

What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts.

— Joan D. Vinge

That's the tragedy of our country. Everyone is an inexperienced politician.

— Ksenia Sobchak

Politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't.

— George Carlin

I am friendly to all political parties. So, I am able to do my social work freely without any hassles.

— Vivek

The politician's prayer is: May my words be ever soft and low, for I may have to eat them.

— Norman Lamont

It is not the job of the Department of Education to maximize profits for the government at the cost of squeezing students…

— Elizabeth Warren

The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and…

— Abraham Lincoln

The United States Constitution has proven itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

— Franklin D Roosevelt

I never thought I was a libertarian until I picked up Reason magazine and realized I agree with everything they had printed.

— Drew Carey

Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Independent judges have always frustrated governments that don't see why unelected arbiters of the law should stand in their way.

— Anne Applebaum

In more than half the nations of our world, torture certifies that the form of government is tyranny. Only tyranny, no matter…

— Martha Gellhorn

Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of…

— Ayn Rand

It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Conservatives insist that government should be "run more like a business." One might wonder how that could be possible, since government does…

— Michael Parenti

For me, I feed off everything, from bad politics to religion to relationships - I mean, just life in general. And, yeah,…

— Ivan Moody

“The Ganeva conference on Indochina agreements stated that the south of Vietnam would be handed over to a provisional administration after two…

— Michael G. Kramer

I'm much more attracted personally to governments going their full term. It's very hard to have a fixed term election I know…

— Jim Bolger

We call on the Senate to reject any judicial nominee who does not affirm fundamental civil rights, including a woman's right [to…

— Susana Martinez

The mindset of legislating for the betterment of society guarantees the growth of the beast. ... Politicians see government as a solution…

— R. Lee Wrights

People say to me, Oh, it's so wonderful that you're writing about real things, and that it's a political thing to do,…

— Arundhati Roy

“But we forget that government was also created to act and make decisions.”

— Francis Fukuyama

A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents.

— Richard Reeves

In the Islamic government all people have complete freedom to have any kind of opinion.

— Ruhollah Khomeini

Modi government has not flouted any rule or regulation to help anyone.

— Gautam Adani

When all else fails the liberals call you names or attack your personality.

— Herman Cain

After many, many years, I fell out of love with politics. It's not something I like but it's the truth.

— Bernardo Bertolucci

On form of government, there should be checks and balances, and PM should be responsible to Parliament.

— Sushil Koirala

Careerism: the self-centered philosophy of governing to win the next election above all else.

— Tom Coburn

The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body

— Michel Foucault

Judicial activism must be lessened, and the judiciary should do its work and let politicians work.

— Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

Industry now should become a full partner of government in supporting longrange basic research.

— Kenneth G. Wilson

Politics in America has become a Jewish profession, just like arts and the law...

— Ira Forman

More often than politicians, but not as often as they should.

— Stephen Hawking

Political freedom, as the Western world has known it, is only a political reading of the Bible.

— Whittaker Chambers

I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art.

— Jerry Saltz

Government's power to bully people who have broken no law is dangerous to all of us.

— Thomas Sowell