Politics Quotes · Page 161

We have no more fundamental obligation in government than to ensure the safety of our citizens.

— Bob Ehrlich

“It is imperative that we replace those who think they own this country, with those who built it.”

— Alec Baldwin

Politics has become infused with narcissism in America.

— John Oliver

I probably pay more attention to politics than what I used to.

— Kano

Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one.

— Herbert Hoover

Howard Dean knows about as much about the South as a hog knows about Sunday.

— Zell Miller

“Gandhi Topi' is no longer an attire of the pacifist.”

— Mukesh Kwatra

No politician is ever benefited by saving money; it is spending it that makes him.

— H. L. Mencken

One single object . . . [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.

— Thomas Jefferson

“Politics seems to require a morality quite apart from that of personal life, posing a tragic dilemma for Brutus as for Richard…

— David Bevington

Majority of the African countries are now enjoying stable governance. Before you talk about economic growth, political stability is key.

— Goodluck Jonathan

“Every state in which anyone other than the statesman has to concern himself with politics is ill organized and deserves to perish…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Is the scrupulous attention I am paying to the government of my tongue at all proportioned to that tremendous truth revealed through…

— Frederick William Faber

If we grab technology and adapt it and make it work for us, it will work in one way, whereas if we…

— Peter Gabriel

When politicians say "I'm in politics," it may or may not be possible to trust them, but when they say, "I'm in…

— Albert J. Nock

The Modi government started several welfare schemes for poor and realised the dream of corruption-free India.

— Yogi Adityanath

“And he says that everything, absolutely everything, is a question of aesthetics and color. That people aren’t really unhappy with you or…

— Pedro Lemebel

I urge Governments to considerably reduce funds allocated to the military, not only as a disarmament issue, but also as a potential…

— Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

“And in spite of the fact that science, art, and politics had no special interest for him, he firmly held those views…

— Leo Tolstoy

During President George W. Bush's two terms, you couldn't drive far without seeing a particular bumper sticker: Dissent is the highest form…

— Monica Crowley

Strictly speaking, it probably is not “necessary” for the federal government to tax anyone directly; it could simply print the money it…

— Ron Paul

Insurgents have capitalized on popular resentment and anger towards the United States and the Iraqi government to build their own political, financial…

— Tom Lantos

What modernity requires is not that you cease living according to your faith, but that you accept that others may differ and…

— Andrew Sullivan

I have long argued that we need to reopen Alcatraz to house government criminals, and let tourists on excursion boats in San…

— L. Neil Smith

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

— Benjamin Disraeli

My government has promised to comprehensively respect the independence of the judiciary.

— Victor Ponta

Good policy makes good politics and what I've done has been good politics.

— J. C. Watts

Socialism doesn't work. A big government doesn't work.

— Rick Harrison

To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.

— Anonymous

Stop the normalisation of political violence against the Right!

— Laura Loomer

Next time someone says, 'Where has big government ever gotten us?' the correct answer is 'Mars.'

— Andy Borowitz

I would absolutely never use the federal government to enforce the law of using marijuana

— Ron Paul

Americans overthrew governments only when economic interests coincided with ideological ones.

— Stephen Kinzer

Nixon was the beginning of people not trusting politics.

— Daryl Hall

Anyone who seeks to be involved in politics should join hands with America.

— Muqtada al Sadr

“Freedom exists only where people take care of the government.”

— Woodrow Wilson

Governments can inflate their way out of debt, but that has consequences, doesn't it?

— Kent Conrad

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

— Sydney Pollack

There are only two questions about government. How much do you want? How much can you stand?

— James Cook

I know people don't like America very much, but the one thing it's very good on is local government.

— Heather Brooke