Politics Quotes · Page 194

You'll never get me to speak religion. You'll never get me to speak politics.

— Joe Budden

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

I have an institutional fear of big government. I have an institutional opposition to bureaucracy.

— Rush Limbaugh

It's true that in chess as in politics, fund-raising and glad-handing matter.

— Garry Kasparov

It takes money to run political campaigns. This is a cancer growing on the soul of our democracy.

— Elizabeth Warren

I am a politician but I am also an actress and you do need glamour in politics.

— Jaya Prada

I don't have much faith... in the government police.

— Roger Ver

My mother, Lillie Specter, was an angel and totally uninterested in politics.

— Arlen Specter

The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs…

— William Scranton

The intelligent and efficient politician is a species virtually unknown in the galaxy. Perhaps I might secure a scraping [for my] cell…

— George R. R. Martin

There's people coming in who've never done any politics at all, who've never been in a trade union, they've never been in…

— Susan George

“Treaty with Tripoli, Art. 11. As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the…

— United States Congress

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.

— Shirley Chisholm

The cultivation - even celebration - of victimhood by intellectuals, tort lawyers, politicians and the media is both cause and effect of…

— George Will

I hear people saying we don't need this war, I say there's some things worth fighting for. What about our freedom and…

— Darryl Worley

Frankly, I want to be in government with Caroline Lucas, not against her - and certainly not in permanent opposition.

— Clive Lewis

“A DEAD STATESMAN I could not dig: I dared not rob: Therefore I lied to please the mob. Now all my lies…

— Rudyard Kipling

Every time I'm on the red carpet and they ask,'Who's the mother going to be? I always say Hillary Clinton as a…

— Jason Segel

I might even pursue a career in politics. If I do, I will have had great practice dealing with the avalanche of…

— Gretchen Carlson

“During all that time I didn't see Willie. I didn't see him again until he announced in the Democratic primary in 1930.…

— Robert Penn Warren

“The great owners, striking at the immediate thing, the widening government, the growing labor unity; striking at new taxes, at plans; not…

— John Steinbeck

“New Rule: It's okay for the president to play ball in the house. It's easy to judge and say this scene detracts…

— Bill Maher

“The authority of government, even such as I am willing to submit to— for I will cheerfully obey those who know and…

— Henry David Thoreau

In the first place, it is to be remembered, that the general government is not to be charged with the whole power…

— James Madison

Trust free people and free enterprise as opposed to meddling, burdensome government.

— George Allen

I thought I was really a radical, political person, which of course I am not.

— Lena Dunham

Doing your taxes on April Fool's Day seems like a perfectly legitimate way to defraud the government.

— Anonymous

“the world has enough politicians; it needs more prophets.”

— Mark Driscoll

The politics of hope is harder to spread than the politics of hate.

— Jess Phillips

I was alarmed at my doctor's report: He said I was sound as a dollar.

— Ronald Reagan

Our war cries opened the deaf ears of the almighty government and its accomplices.

— Subcomandante Marcos

“I am a Conservative: Barack Obama is the Hans Gruber of American politics. #caring”

— Kurt Schlichter

Thatcher was the motivation for my entire political career. I hated everything she stood for.

— Nicola Sturgeon

Politics lives in people, ideas live in people, they live in the concrete struggles that people have.

— Ken Loach

Ottawa - a sub-arctic lumber-village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit.

— Goldwin Smith

Every day things get better because politicians are addressing the fiscal challenges more aggressively.

— Meredith Whitney

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

— Ronald Reagan

The land of litigation, the courts are like game shows. Take what's behind the curtain the jury cries.

— Joni Mitchell

Politics should be, you know, as exciting as literature, as exciting film.

— George Packer

I think that there are, in some ways, surprisingly little money in politics.

— Sam Bankman-Fried