Politics Quotes · Page 185

If Mitt Romney wins this years election, I volunteer as tribute for the Hunger Games.

— Anonymous

Even now I wonder what I might have accomplished if I'd studied harder

— Ronald Reagan

I am an optimist. If I ever quit being an optimist, I guess I'll become a Republican.

— Ray Farabee

People don't like to see politicians focused on themselves, we know that.

— Gladys Berejiklian

We often repent of what we have said, but never, never, of that which we have not.

— Thomas Jefferson

I'm never intently political about anything, I just speak my mind from my perspective.

— Rose Matafeo

The chief evil is unlimited government, and nobody is qualified to wield unlimited power.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

I am not a politician, and my other habits air good.

— Charles Farrar Browne

People always want welfare, development, and good governance. As long as you are delivering, people are with you.

— N. Chandrababu Naidu

Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.

— Ludwig von Mises

“Everything that happens in philosophy has, in the last instance, not only political consequences in theory, but also political consequences in politics:…

— Louis Althusser

Even when governments take the right steps to reform, these can be negatively impacted by events outside their control.

— Jose Manuel Barroso

Politicians and corporations have always placed economic interests above moral interests. This is now hurting the entire planet.

— Marianne Thieme

Do what you think is right, because one damn thing is an absolute, certainly: We come and go. Politicians are a dime…

— Gavin Newsom

The older generation grew up on blow-dried anchors, plastic politicians, and an ocean of pretense. Realness seems unvarnished and unpolished to them.

— Cenk Uygur

I'm completely fascinated with American politics because I think they dictate the politics of every nation of the Western world. So, it's…

— Nikolaj Arcel

Mankind has failed miserably in its effort to devise a rational system of government. [...] The art of government is the exclusive…

— H. L. Mencken

to the Indian, politics are what the weather is to an Englishman. Politics are an introduction to a stranger on a train,…

— Santha Rama Rau

“neither we nor our planet enjoys a privileged position in Nature. This insight has since been applied upward to the stars, and…

— Carl Sagan

Because finally, 'the equal right of every citizen to the free exercise of his religion according to the dictates of conscience' is…

— James Madison

The broad rich acres of our agricultural plains have been long preserved by nature to become her untrammeled gift to a people…

— Grover Cleveland

We want our government to protect us, to make sure something like 9/11 never happens again. We quickly moved to give law…

— Michael Connelly

For all the huffing and blowing we get about rugged individualism, the American spirit and the American experiment always have had at…

— Charlie Pierce

“the government worked, if it could be trusted, and what they really needed. As Antoine Huss moved out and was succeeded in…

— Douglas Grindle

I always try to put a strong political context, as a backdrop, in my films.

— Kabir Khan

“. . . have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.” —Steve Jobs”

— Wanda Krause

When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.

— Gary Hamel

Government can screw up just about everything. Given enough power and time it will screw up everything.

— Mark Thornton

When you are in politics you are in a wasp's nest with a short shirt-tail, as the saying is.

— Mark Twain

Politics and more politics - that's how you work towards the building of agreements.

— Enrique Pena Nieto

People who declare that they belong to no party certainly do not belong to ours.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Women have more to prove than men when it comes to politics.

— Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Everyone wants to demagogue everyone else. That may be good politics, but it's awful policy.

— Chris Christie

Surely there are enough Celtic songs without introducing religion or politics or anything else.

— Jock Stein

What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to seek to justify.

— Henry A. Kissinger

You may not think about politics, but politics think about you.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Democracy virtually assures that only bad and dangerous men will ever rise to the top of government.

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

“The desire to avoid short-term hardships leads to major dislocations in [housing] markets.”

— Richard Epstein

The BJP doesn't believe in vote-bank politics. We believe India is above everything.

— Amit Shah

“It's about time that governments feared the people instead of the other way around.”

— Henry Rollins