Politics Quotes · Page 175

“Lebanon: the country where everyone wants a piece while we want peace.”

— Sandra Chami Kassis

We can restore that vital trust between politics and the people.

— Andrea Leadsom

I was always a courageous woman, capable of confronting governments but not men.

— Jane Fonda

Republican democracy is overperfect and demands political virtues and talents far superior to our own.

— Simon Bolivar

Politicians shouldn't spend most of their time in office trying to get reelected.

— Gary Johnson

Government schools will teach children that government is wonderful.

— Neal Boortz

Of all political sacred-cows, education is the most sacred and the most cow-like.

— Enoch Powell

It's a pattern. Prices go up, consumers get angry, politicians investigate, nothing changes.

— Sean Comey

[Putin] is a bully. And bullies only understand when we punch them in the nose, but we need to do that economically.

— Kelly Ayotte

Regardless of political beliefs, if we truly hold freedom & democracy dear to our hearts we will support freedom of the press.

— Anonymous

“Table 3: Vote share of major political parties in Karachi (Sindh Provincial Assembly elections), 1988–2013”

— Laurent Gayer

Politicians are notoriously economically illiterate. And even when they know what would be the right thing, we don't really expect them to…

— Harry Browne

The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.

— Henry Ward Beecher

There's this unspoken club where you say to each other: Oh God, if they only knew how ordinary I was, they wouldn't…

— Margot Kidder

The government should train and direct the people in their acquisition of political knowledge and ability, thereby enabling them to exercise the…

— Sun Yat-sen

Too often in the post-9/11 world, when the time has come to translate the moral, and essentially progressive, roots of foreign policy…

— Richard Just

I think we need a politics that allows us to risk what is intelligible. To be maybe slightly unintelligible, too be slightly…

— Judith Butler

“While the popular understanding of anarchism is of a violent, anti-State movement, anarchism is a much more subtle and nuanced tradition then…

— Anonymous

The truth is that the general genius of a government is all that can be substantially relied upon for permanent effects. Particular…

— Alexander Hamilton

“where is the poetry of resistance, the poetry of honorable defiance unafraid of lies from career politicians and business men, not respectful…

— Haki R. Madhubuti

“In case there was any doubt, there is a secret government agency that monitors all the things that normal government agencies vehemently…

— Jordan Krumbine

“About half the global economy is living beyond not only its means but its diminished number of children's means. Instead of addressing…

— Mark Steyn

I come from a state that has virtually no gun control. And yet, at political peril, I voted for an instant background…

— Bernie Sanders

This is an effort to have government coerce, force speech and behavior. And it's being pushed and advocated by the gay community.…

— Michele Bachmann

People have decided that career politicians may be part of the problem, not part of the solution.

— Carly Fiorina

I have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician.

— Serj Tankian

The government you vote for is the one you put there.

— Bad Religion

“You have to respect the choice of the masses when they willfully elect a corrupt government.”

— Steven Magee

There's a great public disinclination toward politicians.

— Arlen Specter

Sometimes in politics, you get a wallop in the electoral process.

— Enda Kenny

This may be news to Big Money politicians, but they actually don't own our votes.

— Jill Stein

Instead of doing more badly, government should focus on doing less well.

— Joel Miller

Constitutional provisions are not barriers to government misconduct. At best, they can be speed bumps.

— Arnold Kling

When I hear a person talking about political solutions, I know I am not listening to a serious person.

— George Carlin

In business, as in politics, the public is ever so tolerant of those who slime.

— Christopher Moore

The creator's concern is the conquest of nature. The parasite's concern is the conquest of men.

— Ayn Rand

“Politics is merely war by other means. -an old Andorian saying”

— David Mack

I really do have this thing for middle-aged politicians.

— Georgia Toffolo

Political debate is political debate and that's fine. That's healthy.

— Rachel Notley

The Indian government is weak. The Prime Minister is weak and ineffective.

— J. Jayalalithaa