Politics Quotes · Page 155

The fact is that politics in Illinois is a blood sport. It's really rough. It's really nasty.

— Bruce Rauner

I think everybody wanted to help the U.S. government in some way after 9/11.

— Erik Prince

A politician thinks about the next elections - the statesman thinks about the next generations.

— James Freeman

I want to tell the government, stop being soft towards the terrorists.

— Simi Garewal

It will be said that great societies cannot exist without government.

— Thomas Jefferson

In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

— Roy Hattersley

I'm many things, most of 'em bad. But a man of political principles? No.

— John Marston

Soaring rhetoric will not restore the American people's confidence in their government.

— Kevin Brady

Our party's economic policy will be people-oriented. But our government will neither give doles to the poor and unemployed, nor distribute saris.…

— Mayawati

But in the end our government usually - not unfailingly - is responsive to the people; and usually - not always -…

— Lee H. Hamilton

Useful lessons can be learned from our more successful local authorities - as you move into government, it is even more imperative…

— Charles Kennedy

The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.

— Jackson Katz

“Creating equality in the society means helping poor to become prosperous and not asking prosperous to become poor.”

— Amit Kalantri

No more essential duty of government exists than the protection of the lives of its people. Fail in this, and we fail…

— Francis T Murphy

When people in government [make mistakes], they don't say, those people in the government. They say, we've got a problem to solve.

— Dar Williams

The unhoused crisis in our country is a public health emergency, and a moral and policy failure at every level of our…

— Cori Bush

Why shouldn't I be interested in politics? That is to say, what blindness, what deafness, what density of ideology would have to…

— Michel Foucault

When a man wrote a political screed against the IRS and flew into its building, he was deemed mentally ill, even though…

— Hamza Yusuf

It is ... necessary to whip up the population in support of foreign adventures. Usually the population is pacifist, just like they…

— Noam Chomsky

“It’s not that men and women are identical; it’s just that they are so near identical in all but the political abuses…

— Samuel R. Delany

Thus, if there exists a law which sanctions slavery or monopoly, oppression or robbery, in any form whatever, it must not even…

— Frederic Bastiat

It would surprise you how many government and business leaders with dyslexia. Some people view it as a weakness, and maybe it…

— John T. Chambers

“In an age when designer labels and celebrity names are used to sell everything from cars to lipstick, when meaningless slogans and…

— Siri Hustvedt

“He had spent the last five years, he [JFK] said ruefully, running for office, and he did not know any real public…

— David Halberstam

The effective strategies in politics are ones that are so clear and obvious that people can grasp it.

— Karl Rove

... the good are not willing to rule either for the sake of money or of honor.

— Plato

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

— Richard M. Nixon

The Democrats smell blood and don't want to be told that it's their own.

— Mark Steyn

American politics is theatre. There is a frightening emotionalism at national conventions.

— Robert Dallek

Farmer's plight and dismal condition of common man in Punjab forced me to join politics.

— Gurpreet Ghuggi

I wouldn't characterize my work, however, as directly political.

— Suzanne Vega

A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence.

— Max Weber

If ignorance goes to forty dollars a barrel, I want drilling rights to George Bush's head.

— Jim Hightower

I don't know if I can live on my income or not - the government won't let me try it.

— Bob Thaves

I love being a parliamentarian. I love it but I don't like politics. And I hate elections.

— Elizabeth May

Music is politics - it always has been and it always will be.

— Thea Gilmore

I turned off the talking politicos. Too much jabbering at each other. Not enough care about humans.

— Leonard Nimoy

The war against terrorism will not be finished as long as he [Saddam Hussein] is in power.

— Christopher Dodd

There are so many demands on your time, on your resources, and on the prestige of the government.

— Brian Mulroney

We're a democratic society. Shutting down the government should not be on the agenda.

— Alan Greenspan