Politics Quotes · Page 178

Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.

— Mason Cooley

You have to spend your political capital on great causes for your country.

— Brian Mulroney

The government is corrupted. It's corrupted. It is not about regular people.

— Steve Schmidt

Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.

— Clement Attlee

I don't view myself as a political leftie. I view myself as a storyteller who is fair to both sides.

— Tim Robbins

From the U.S., we need strong political support for the Ukrainian peace plan - the Minsk agreement.

— Petro Poroshenko

Government can do best by simply getting out of the way.

— Gavin Newsom

Love is by far bigger than the government can ever be.

— Jesse Ventura

To me, political action involves making the politician who represents us know that he either produces or he is out, and he's…

— Malcolm X

The issue for me is not just Brexit. It is beyond Brexit - how you conduct politics and the veering towards populism…

— Sam Gyimah

My seriousness as a politician will be seen from what I speak from a political stage and say in press conferences. If…

— Gurpreet Ghuggi

Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea…

— Bill Gates

At a time when we are pleading with foreign governments to stop the export of cocaine, it is the height of hypocrisy…

— C. Everett Koop

The traditional divide between left and right, capital and labor, small state and big state, high taxes and low taxes doesn't define…

— Leo Varadkar

As civilization has become more complex, and as the need for invisible government has been increasingly demonstrated, the technical means have been…

— Edward Bernays

The tax rate increases reduce economic growth; they shrink the pie; they cause more poverty, more despair, more unemployment, which are all…

— Arthur Laffer

“We will never know peace in the world without balance. And we will never know balance without justice for all. Yet justice…

— Suzy Kassem

“It is part of the received doctrine of modern biography that all characters are Flawed, and as a Christian priest I am…

— Robertson Davies

We need early warning systems, technologies to deflect an asteroid - and we need political preparedness as well. It needs to be…

— Rusty Schweickart

Washington, D.C. is what is broken, not the immigration policies. We have good laws. We have people suffer every day because of…

— Russell Pearce

We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob… [The organized moneyed people] are…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who Is able to think things out for himself, without regard to…

— Henry Louis Mencken

“All government, without exception, conceal from the people everything that might further their emancipation, and encourage all that degrades and demoralizes them:…

— Tolstoy L

Individual initiative alone and the mere free play of competition could never assure successful development. One must avoid the risk of increasing…

— Pope Paul VI

The government of our great country belongs to all of the people and not just a handful of the wealthy.

— Bernie Sanders

Winning an Oscar ain't about performance. There's a lot of politics involved.

— Mickey Rourke

I think we need politicians; we need people who want to serve.

— Iain Banks

Good governance, safety, a chance to grow economically and professionally - those are important things.

— Dana Perino

I would rather have newspapers without a government than a government without newspapers.

— Thomas Jefferson

How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics?

— William Butler Yeats

Even if I am paid in crores, I have no interest to venture to politics.

— Mumtaj

“DNA governs probabilities more than it dictates destinies,”

— David B. Agus

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.

— Lord Acton

We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built.

— Larry Niven

Less government in business and more business in government.

— Warren G. Harding

“Anything which is morally wrong cannot be religiously, socially or politically right.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Wise men profit more by fools than fools by wise men.”

— Marcus Porcius Cato

“Having two non-functional parties is not a democracy, it's a losing coin flip.”

— Russ Lippitt

In my case I've never not been political, though religion tended to overshadow it in my acid days.

— John Lennon

I could take this home, Marilyn. This is something teenage boys might find of interest.

— Dan Quayle