Politics Quotes · Page 166

I don't know what people have against government; they haven't done anything.

— Bob Hope

British politics, as the world knows, is a joke. Yet it's rarely funny.

— Anonymous

I personally feel that an actor should not take an important part in politics.

— Alok Nath

“Politicians are a lot like diapers. They should be changed frequently, and for the same reasons.”

— Mark Twain

Independence is a political concept, not a biological concept.

— Margaret J. Wheatley

In politics, the money man is usually the dumbest person in the room.

— Christopher Wylie

“[Politics] is always a means of conquering others and exercising power over them.”

— Jacques Ellul

We all aren't in government, we all aren't CEOs, but we all are somebody.

— Michael Tubbs

The benefits of globalization do not trickle down automatically. It takes politics to make sure that there is a benefit.

— Margrethe Vestager

“Things that are back to front are often easier to comprehend if they are upside down as well. In life as in…

— Terry Pratchett

'Federalism', in the context of political and media usage in Britain, has come to mean the creation and imposition of a European…

— Charles Kennedy

There's good and bad everywhere in any aspect in life. The only people who we can't really trust are politicians. Because those…

— Demian Bichir

Once every American has a pony then I can - by fiat, executive order or something like that - dismantle the federal…

— Vermin Supreme

The government seems to be set on bankrupting Proton and selling it off, because I think it is regarded as my baby.

— Mahathir Mohamad

“You obviously haven’t lived in D.C. very long if you think two and a half minutes is too soon to talk politics.”

— Jeri Smith-Ready

There is kind of a typical experience as a premier. You go in, you win a couple, you get out. Go serve…

— Dalton McGuinty

His presidency ended more than a decade ago, but politicians, Democrat and Republican, still talk about Ronald Reagan. Al Gore has an…

— Bruce Morton

The first duty of government is to ensure its citizens are protected, but ID cards could never have done that. They would…

— Damian Green

“The banishment of the Constitution and republicanism, like the disembowelment of the Declaration of Independence and individualism, has been scrupulous. There is…

— Mark R. Levin

“Bleeding Kansas and the Caning of Charles Sumner   The reaction to the Kansas-Nebraska Act was intense, and in many ways violent.…

— Lance T. Stewart

“New Rule: Americans must realize what makes NFL football so great: socialism. That's right, the NFL takes money from the rich teams…

— Bill Maher

Because many of us make mistakes that can have bad consequences, some intellectuals believe that it is the role of government to…

— Thomas Sowell

The chief internal enemies of any state are not spies nor saboteurs nor the paid agents of foreign governments. They are, on…

— Dalton Trumbo

I have been for some time in Retirement, and shall not probably return again to public Life; yet my Anxiety for my…

— George Mason

They are fighting for the chair while I am fighting for your happiness.

— Narendra Modi

Even through sports, I have been serving the country. But later, I want to join politics.

— Dutee Chand

“I fear we must use bad science to accomplish good politics.”

— James Cambias

No company fails in communist China, because they're all partly owned by the government.

— Jim Bunning

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

— Robert Frost

I got a letter from the government the other day I opened and read it...it said they were suckers.

— Chuck D

“Great literature will insist upon its self-sufficiency in the face of the worthiest causes”

— Harold Bloom

A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible

— Francis Parker Yockey

“I think it’s OK to rape as many people as possible, and that’s precisely why I’m going into politics.”

— Jarod Kintz

Politicians make mistakes. People misspeak in public. God knows I have proven both. A lot.

— R. T. Rybak

All vets are mentally ill in some way and government should prevent them from owning firearms.

— Dianne Feinstein

Let me tell my nigerian government that, an ideology can never be killed by gun.

— Mohammed Yunusa Maiduguri Nigeria

“Taking on Washington was the fastest way to commit political suicide in the revolutionary era.”

— Joseph J. Ellis

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.

— Henry David Thoreau

The real question is "Why should we make an exception for billionaire politicians?". We should not.

— Tulip Siddiq

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

— Henry David Thoreau