Politics Quotes · Page 170

Public influence is the real government of the world.

— Josiah Warren

Loving America doesn't mean agreeing with every policy or politician. It's not required.

— Jon Husted

It is less important to redistribute wealth than it is to redistribute opportunity.

— Arthur H. Vandenberg

We want a system that will improve consistency and steadiness in the quality of government.

— Ferdinand Mount

It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

— Gerald F. Lieberman

“she learned slowly and painfully that it was easier to overthrow a government than to create a one...”

— Lynne Withey

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Ridicule is about the most powerful weapon possible.

— Barney Frank

“The more we travel we explore religion, politics, music, culture, landscape, weather, accents, lifestyle & people...People are people.
 We either do or…

— Lisa Goldin

In fact, it is my case that POFMA can easily become a proverbial Damocles sword that would hang over members of the…

— Pritam Singh

“I believe that all politicians are unprincipled crooks and I still believe that they are better than the alternative. I”

— Neil Gaiman

“If you distance yourself from reality and just cling to cliches about democracy find yourself a different job than analyzing politics”

— Hany Ghoraba

Los Angeles County government is a "Soviet-style system," with too many people only sort of in charge and no person sufficiently at…

— Zev Yaroslavsky

Culture and politics were inseparable [in the Sixties], which gave a soundtrack to political awareness and activism.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I think there should be a major cut in the power of government to interfere in the day-to-day running of our schools.…

— Damian Green

I will be engaging myself personally, as the head of the Polish government, in the optimization of conditions for the exploration, research,…

— Donald Tusk

I have had it up to here with the prosecutions, the government's attitude, the judiciary, the media's stance and the majority of…

— Osman Baydemir

As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for…

— Angela Davis

The greatest factors making for communism, socialism or anarchy among a free people are the excesses of capital. The talk of the…

— Louis D. Brandeis

“Look, dude, you've sampled your life, mixed those sounds with a funk precedent, and established a sixteen-bar system of government for the…

— Paul Beatty

“The degree of personal freedom that exists in a society is determined more by the economic and technological structure of the society…

— Theodore J. Kaczynski

Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked. I am trying to find places for those able to…

— Harriet Tubman

“The mistake is to assume that rulers who came to power through institutions cannot change or destroy those very institutions--even when that…

— Timothy Snyder

You have politicians in the U.S. who think they know the best ways to govern communities, but they've never been in these…

— RaMell Ross

To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.

— William Penn

In America, the people are not subjects of government, the government is subject to the people.

— Rick Perry

I want to get away from "It's either government or the market." That's a false dichotomy.

— Douglas Massey

Ah, if only the best place for storing embryonic stem cells was Yucca Flat.

— James Lileks

Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

— I. F. Stone

It is not true that I oppose government funding of the arts.

— Camille Paglia

The most basic decision a modern politician must make is whether to be aggressive or conciliatory.

— Dick Morris

It's time the government stopped using taxes to reward winners and losers in love.

— S.E. Cupp

My early years as a political activist were dominated by the poll tax.

— Nicola Sturgeon

Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.

— Alexander Pope

The reason families need two incomes today is not to support themselves but to support the government.

— Dick Armey

Politicians are strong to the extent that they are ready to take serious decisions and fight for it.

— Ehud Olmert

Don't drag the Mossad into political arguments. These are people who can't defend themselves.

— Benny Gantz

Not only do we have a right to know, we have a duty to know what our Government is doing in our…

— Walter Cronkite

A modern liberal is someone who doesn't care what you do, as long as it's compulsory.

— M. Stanton Evans

People don't place their trust in government or company pension plans; they have to be self-reliant.

— Anonymous