Politics Quotes · Page 189

We've got to see a state where the Afghan government can handle its own day-to-day security.

— Stephen Harper

If everyone would paint, political re-education would be unnecessary.

— Pablo Picasso

I like 'X-Files'-type shows with government conspiracies and extraterrestrials and all that.

— Mike McCready

We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.

— Zachary Quinto

In times of crisis, it is of utmost importance to keep one's head.

— Marie Antoinette

My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.

— Abraham Lincoln

How can we protect homeland security unless the government stops the invasion of illegal aliens?

— Phyllis Schlafly

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.

— Bill Moyers

The hardest thing to do in politics is campaign as someone you aren't. People can spot an imposter from a mile away.

— Chuck Todd

The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us. we ought, for so dear a stake, to sacrifice every…

— Thomas Jefferson

'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age…

— Naomi Wolf

“I really don't think that was a good idea,'' Archer said, appearing in the open archway. ''To go sightseeing when you have…

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

Do not let either the medical authorities or the politicians mislead you. Find out what the facts are, and make your own…

— Linus Pauling

He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Antitrust laws ought to be deployed, not against business, but to bust this two-party monopoly, which subverts competition in government and rewards…

— Ilana Mercer

They say that politics is show business for ugly people, but as I always crack, what would I know about that? I…

— George Galloway

The legacy of the New Del was, more than anything else, a matter of ideological change. Henceforth, nearly everyone would look to…

— Robert Higgs

“Life in Australia is more equal and less competitive than in America; but there are dozens of similarities...migrations to a new land,…

— Donald Horne

Marco [Rubio] is a gifted politician. He is incredibly gifted. And he needs to be able to do his job. He's going…

— Jeb Bush

“Bush invited his constituency to be blind to the world's real problems, and leftists often do the opposite, gazing so fixedly at…

— Rebecca Solnit

“Why, how can you ask such a question? You are a republican." A republican! Yes; but that word specifies nothing. Res publica;…

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Modern Democrats aren't the first political party to abuse power - far from it. Obama isn'€™t the first president to abuse executive…

— David Harsanyi

Trump is a partner for us who cannot be easily categorized. Putting it in the noblest way possible, his understanding of politics…

— Jean-Claude Juncker

Providing financial incentives for both local communities and national governments to conserve and restore forests also makes sense. It will put an…

— Paul Polman

I have always believed governments must adapt to the needs of the people, not the other way around.

— Kim Campbell

I never make moral judgments; I'm not qualified to do so. I am not a censor, a priest, or a politician.

— Federico Fellini

In every sort of politics, in history, it has its own problems, its leaders, its own opposition.

— Sonia Gandhi

Well, the capacity of French intellectuals to understand a Texan way of thinking is finite.

— Henry A. Kissinger

“But Ailes was convinced that Trump had no political beliefs or backbone.”

— Michael Wolff

First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.

— Nate Silver

Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

— Mark B. Cohen

I'm not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics.

— Natalie Dormer

The 'politics of memory' policy appears to work largely by insinuation.

— Norman Davies

Every traditional ways in politics that you get rid of an enemy has not worked on Donald Trump.

— Rush Limbaugh

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.

— Thomas Love Peacock

The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.

— Thomas Jefferson

In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament.

— Frank Moore Colby

Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.

— Dario Fo

There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.

— Richard M. Nixon

Real politics is messy and morally ambiguous and doesn't make for a compelling thriller.

— James Surowiecki