Politics Quotes · Page 168

All my trust in the politicians had been rubbed away.

— Kenan Evren

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

— George Bernard Shaw

To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.

— Indira Gandhi

“Politics takes place in the real world with real people, not in the dusty pages of an Ayn Rand novel.”

— Laura Ingraham

I want to see a more collective style in how our party operates, in politics as a whole.

— Jeremy Corbyn

A government is not an old pair of socks that you throw away.

— Boris Yeltsin

“I never aspired to be the PM...Why should I quit over a silly issue like corruption? - Devender Singh”

— Tuhin A. Sinha

Because I've worked in politics for decades, voting has always been on the forefront of my mind.

— Karine Jean-Pierre

The stuff that I propose are things that I'm ready to govern with. They're not tools to get elected. They are programs…

— John Kasich

The trouble with the social-democratic state is that, when government does too much, nobody else does much of anything.

— Mark Steyn

Americans tend not to distinguish between political rhetoric and real intentions, which can lead to great misunderstanding.

— Hooman Majd

We must recognize that personal freedoms diminish as the welfare state grows. The price of more and more public programs is less…

— Caspar Weinberger

I love being ankle deep in conversations about sewers and potholes. That's where my heart has always been, and city government has…

— Michelle Wu

I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending cuts in…

— Stephen Harper

If a famous liberal politician received a fatal swirly, would the rest of them try to ban indoor plumbing or opposable thumbs…

— Rock Cowles

Social Security is one of the greatest achievements of the American government, protecting our elderly against poverty and assuring young people of…

— Mark Foley

“Although my law practice pays my hotel bill, I consider it no more my career than a hundred other things: sailing, drinking,…

— John Barth

At the time when talk of war, intimidation, and aggression is exchanged between politicians, the name of their country, Iran, is spoken…

— Asghar Farhadi

Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go…

— Saul Alinsky

First of all, I would tell any young woman who's interested in politics to get in touch with herself first and really,…

— Maxine Waters

I have felt the force of what governments can do. I remember my elder son being in the first cohort of kids…

— Jess Phillips

Looking at the purpose of our government toward the Indians, we find that after subjugating them it has been our policy to…

— Nelson A. Miles

“The idealized market was supposed to deliver ‘friction free’ exchanges, in which the desires of consumers would be met directly, without the…

— Mark Fisher

It's often said of American politics that it's a huge juggernaut and the president can change the direction by two or three…

— Martin Amis

I'm not just a politician, I'm a guy who has a real deep, substantive, commitment to education.

— Roy Romer

St. Kitts' government is much more libertarian compared with the U.S. It's not even close.

— Roger Ver

When a man has done me an evil turn once, I don't like to give him the opportunity to do so twice.

— John A. Macdonald

If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.

— Barbara Kruger

By and large, people are sort of technologically averse in the political space.

— Mike McCurry

American political culture quickly and always outpaces any attempt to satirize it.

— Glenn Greenwald

“Our federal government has been taken over by men who rape and beat the women in their lives,”

— Jaclyn Friedman

I think sometimes if you are too interested in day-to-day politics, you lose sight of the long term.

— Zac Goldsmith

The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

— Henry Ward Beecher

'Rakta Charitra' was more about human conflict than politics.

— Ram Gopal Varma

Women should not need a permission slip from government to take care of their own reproductive health.

— Nina Turner

Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.

— Bobby Scott

Big government intervention creates as many problems as it solves - that was the lesson of Obamacare.

— Tate Reeves

President Trump's greatest political liabilities revolve around questions of personality and character.

— Michael J. Knowles

The political mirage of something for nothing, from leaders who 'care,' has ruined many a nation.

— Thomas Sowell

“Bilderberg pulls the strings of every government and intelligence agency in the Western world.”

— James Morcan