Politics Quotes · Page 173

I promised to empower the taxpayer - instead of a handful of big government union bosses.

— Scott Walker

Going into politics is something people have asked me about forever.

— Caroline Kennedy

“coercive government policies strip the virtue out of every transaction.”

— Dinesh D'Souza

We depend on the Supreme Court to uphold the integrity of our government.

— Frank Lautenberg

In the political world, the only position I have is voter. I'm not a spokesman for anything.

— Tommy Lee Jones

I'm not a career politician, so the ways of Washington may be a little obscure to me.

— Michael Bennet

In politics it commonly takes a superior woman to overcome the handicap of traditional prejudice.

— Bertha Knight Landes

Government must help to eliminate cars so that bicycles can help to eliminate government.

— Advocacy Slogan In Holland

Thomas Jefferson declared, stating that he was speaking on behalf of the other founding fathers, ...(that) we should build a wall between…

— Jimmy Carter

“When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is . . . the most indispensable of duties. -Marquis de Lafayette”

— Michelle Moran

If we move toward the weaponisation of space, we can bid farewell to the planet. The chances of survival are very slight.

— Noam Chomsky

Going all the way back to Daniel Ellsberg, it is clear that the government is not concerned with damage to national security,…

— Edward Snowden

Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of…

— Henry Knox

The marginalized did not create identity politics: their identities have been forced on them by dominant groups, and politics is the most…

— Stacey Abrams

A newspaper reported I spend $30,000 a year buying Paris clothes and that women hate me for it. I couldn't spend that…

— Anonymous

It's all part of the pattern. This is a story of scandal and corruption, investigations, refusals to take responsibility. If this government…

— Stephen Harper

Western governments have generally tried to contain genocide by appeasing its architects. But the sad record of the last century shows that…

— Samantha Power

Political life is like this - elections go back and forth. Representative democracy can only be successful if one sits down and…

— Helmut Kohl

To win in November, Republican candidates must show they are in touch with voter concerns about growth, jobs, paychecks, government spending and…

— Karl Rove

As in the game of billiards, the balls are constantly producing effects from mere chance, which the most skillful player could neither…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“This brings us to the crux moment in the supposed 'Show Trial' melodrama. Employing the confusing and confused testimony of Jude Wanniski…

— Christopher Hitchens

I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who's handicapped, it might be reasonable to let him have…

— Rand Paul

“And yet, Lacedaemonians, you still delay, and fail to see that peace stays longest with those, who are not more careful to…

— Thucydides

“Extraterrestrials, or possibly even the U.S. government, stopped reality for all practical purposes in the 1970s. In other words, they want us…

— Laurence Galian

I am neither a Whig nor Tory. My politics are described in one word and that word is England.

— Benjamin Disraeli

But if not Kelso, then something else, because a free people must own the nation they live in.

— Nicholas von Hoffman

Logic, sometimes has very little to do with political action.

— Alexander Mackenzie

I have to confess, street politics are not my usual style.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

We need to find a way to empower citizens to make governments take notice.

— Ian Goldin

By the way, I am the least political member of my family - I have no future in politics.

— Neil Bush

I'm apolitical. Where all that Conservative business came along from, I don't know.

— Cilla Black

Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.

— Alexander Pope

The world would have peace if only men of politics would follow the Gospels.

— Bridget of Sweden

You can't be involved in modern American politics without somebody attacking you.

— William J. Clinton

If simple, painless solutions to public problems existed, they would have been found long ago.

— Alice Rivlin

If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be

— Evelyn Waugh

Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.

— Anonymous

Military missions cannot be a normal tool of politics, but instead must remain the great exception.

— Guido Westerwelle

“...the wreckage of representative government is strewn with broken promises.”

— Herbert Hoover

Let him leave the imperial court, who wishes to be virtuous. Virtue and absolute power cannot coexist.

— Lucan