Politics Quotes · Page 171

A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

— James Freeman Clarke

I wouldn't go to America if I thought Americans were representative of their government.

— Matty Healy

“The power of a corrupt government is located in the ignorance and indifference of its people - rjs”

— rassool jibraeel snyman

“One man's imagined community is another man's political prison.”

— Arjun Appadurai

“If politicians lived to be only 30-years-old before dying, that’d still be 30 years too long.”

— Jarod Kintz

The demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past.

— Matt Blunt

It is not the government's right to tell you what to inject into your body.

— Lauren Boebert

Our constituency aren't the type of people to be on the Internet.

— Jesse Helms

Of course I am political. You 'ave to be don't you? Every day it is about your future, your right to that…

— Emmanuelle Beart

I believe in strong civil liberties and a government that intervenes if and only if there is a structural failure that private…

— Daryl Morey

A new poll showed that 66% of Americans think President Bush is doing a poor job handling the war in Iraq and…

— Tina Fey

I think a lot of politicians want to focus on the things that make them qualified for the job; the truth is…

— Katie Hill

The labour of the farmers, no doubt is of greater value than the financial capacity of the government and non-government institutions which…

— Girma Woldegiorgis

Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it…

— David Attenborough

To a certain extent, platforms are platitudes that you test when you get to govern. You have to run those priorities up…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

I'm not against ratings per se. I think more information is always good. But I certainly don't think the government has to…

— Drew Carey

I hope we see more avenues for representation. More TV shows and films starring queer people, especially QPOC and nonbinary folks, more…

— Sasha Velour

It is a general maxim that all governments find a use for as much money as they can raise. Indeed, they have…

— James Smith

ANARCHISM (from the Gr. , and , contrary to authority), the name given to a principle or theory of life and conduct…

— Peter Kropotkin

It has become fashionable to rail against government intervention in the economy, and the FHA is a favorite example by those trying…

— Mark Zandi

We must bear in mind, then, that there is nothing more difficult and dangerous, or more doubtful of success, than an attempt…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Lieutenants lied to captains, captains lied to colonels, colonels lied to generals, generals lied to politicians, politicians lied to the people. Right…

— Peter P. Mahoney

It's a cocktail-party circuit in D.C., That guy who couldn't master the guitar and get in a band and get laid, he…

— Dennis Miller

Certainly the Republican Party changed and I never changed, as I became an independent my values never changed whether it's on fiscal…

— Lincoln Chafee

The Democratic Party: Con-men elected by the ignorant and the arrogant.

— John Ray

In medicine as well as politics, one cannot permit the cure to be worse than the disease.

— Michael J. Knowles

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

— Bill Gates

I think the American people have a lot of questions about the governance of this country.

— Cal Cunningham

For too long, politics has been about politicians winning power to take decisions about everyone else.

— Liz Kendall

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.

— Charley Reese

Democracy is a form of government only because it is a form of moral and spiritual association.

— John Dewey

“Assassins, like politicians and journalists, are not attracted to losers.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

“The closer I watch politics the more it looks like professional wrestling in business suits.”

— Bosley Gravel

“If a person can grow through unthinkable trauma and loss, perhaps a nation may, too.”

— Jamie Raskin

“the futility of something is not always (in love and in politics) a sufficient argument against it.”

— Jane Austen

It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.

— Baron de Montesquieu

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.

— Molly Ivins

“Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.”

— Henry Kissinger

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

— Thomas Jefferson

Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy.

— Reinhold Niebuhr