Politics Quotes · Page 156

The military destabilised my government on politically motivated charges.

— Benazir Bhutto

To a British politician, a police officer is as invisible as the railings.

— A. A. Gill

In politics, you must let the other person have your way.

— Claiborne Pell

The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.

— Milton Friedman

Government by blackmail is incompatible with democracy.

— Jerrold Nadler

Florida A&M University was my first real introduction to politics as a heavyweight game.

— Andrew Gillum

As we've always said, in politics the person with the biggest number wins.

— Wayne LaPierre

Public Interest is a term used by every politician to support his ideas.

— W. M. Kiplinger

I am not fond of speaking about politics because I don't have in my possession an army of 200,000 soldiers.

— Franz Liszt

I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation…

— P. D. James

Every record from New Found Glory is a little different. We're a real band that writes songs about our everyday relationships -…

— Chad Gilbert

Political parties need to look at the different kinds of support that people may need, suited to their way of life, and…

— Charles Kennedy

WikiLeaks is exposing our government officials for the frauds that they are. They also show us how governments work together to lie…

— Jesse Ventura

“The money you are looking for is not in any country, phd or your designer outlook, it is in wisdom. Solomon never…

— Patience Johnson

In the early 1990s, I briefly got involved in Italian politics. But that intermezzo lasted just two years and had little success.…

— Luciano Benetton

My earliest political memory is of attending, in 1975, a tub-thumping campaign rally with my father in Adelaide.

— Julia Gillard

We have to give people dreams; we have to give people hope. In terms of government, in terms of society, that's our…

— Courtney B. Vance

“They had to pretend because our high-ranking politician knew not a word of English (well, when he said goodbye he did risk…

— Javier Marias

Laboring through a world every day more stultified, which expected salvation in codes and governments, ever more willing to settle for suburban…

— Thomas Pynchon

Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring…

— Will Durant

“It is horrible to think that the world could one day be filled with nothing but those little cogs, little men clinging…

— Max Weber

My father was a professor of political science and also a young politician fighting for democracy in Kenya, and when things got…

— Lupita Nyong'o

“In one of her letters she writes: Some have questioned the appropriateness of talking about such matters as metta (loving-kindness) and thissa…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

My photographs tried to find the politicians at their most wary, most vulnerable, and perhaps most truthful moments. I wanted the photographs…

— Jerome Liebling

In America the press rules the countrty; it rules its politics, its religion, its social practices.

— E. W. Scripps

One of our most noble political tasks is to open up trust.

— Gustav Heinemann

Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.

— Henry David Thoreau

Democracy is a very bad form of government ... but all the others are so much worse.

— Winston Churchill

I stay as far away from politics as possible, or any controversy.

— Usain Bolt

The political elite prefers to see criminals as victims in need of therapy and TLC.

— Munira Mirza

If man is not fit to govern himself, how can he be fit to govern someone else?

— James Madison

“Away with the hypocritical horror on the part of capitalist, labor leader, and politician.”

— Alexander Berkman

The first rule of holes: When you're in one stop digging.

— Molly Ivins

Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Whatever Tencent can see, the Chinese government can see.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

We have a diverse population and have to maintain that and keep religion away from politics.

— Saad Hariri

They [Goverment] take from the woman who comes in and takes the wastebaskets out.

— Warren Buffett

Government is, and always has been, the greatest criminal threat to the peaceful members of society.

— Richard Ebeling

There's something just so kind of smooth about politicians.

— Emile Hirsch

You have summoned me in my weakness. You must sustain me in your strength.

— Franklin Pierce