Politics Quotes · Page 195

There's no point in getting into politics at all unless you plan to lash things around.

— Hunter S. Thompson

“It isn’t politics that’s the problem. It’s the people who get into politics.” “Guess”

— J.D. Trafford

In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.

— Iain Banks

There was one species of despotism under which he had long groaned, and that was petticoat government.

— Washington Irving

As the list of abuses by federal agencies grows, Americans are rapidly losing trust in government.

— Mark Meadows

If you have political reform in the Islamic world, the spiritual reform would follow.

— Imran Khan

Any type of political ideology is going to have a lot of different variants of it.

— John Mackey

I think a lot of people on both sides have extremely naive views of what government is capable of.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

I think today that politics registers very late things which society manifests through other channels, and I feel that often politics distorts…

— Italo Calvino

The U.S. economy and workers benefit from a strong, healthy relationship between government and business.

— Harold Ford, Jr

There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.

— Lionel Trilling

Government is an inherently inflationary institution and will ever remain so until it is dispossessed of its monopoly of the supply of…

— Joseph Salerno

Cartooning, quietly and discreetly, drew me into the circle of politics and I continue to enjoy both. They both inspire me and…

— Raj Thackeray

The real danger is not inaction. The real danger is when politicians and CEOs are making it look like action is happening…

— Greta Thunburg

If you or I fail at business, we fail. If we cheat and fail, we go to jail. But if you're rich…

— Robert Kiyosaki

A pure democracy is generally a very bad government, It is often the most tyrannical government on earth; for a multitude is…

— Noah Webster

All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war. "There's no place for impractical dreamers…

— William S. Burroughs

The object of leadership may be stated as having a system whereby a leader recognizes what is good for the good of…

— Arleigh Burke

“As the American colonies moved toward declaring independence from Great Britain, the Scots -Irish were all but unanimous in their desire to…

— James Webb

In a despotic government, the only principle by which the tyrant who is to move the whole machine means to regulate and…

— Samuel Williams

Today the governments of Latin America should be ashamed of not havingexterminated the indigenous, at the end of the twentieth century, because…

— Rigoberta Menchu

“— I was an American citizen too; a citizen who had to watch his step, a citizen who had to distrust the…

— Walter Mosley

As so often happens in politics, what appears to be politically expedient for those in power rarely overlaps with the public interest.…

— Jason Stearns

“It is the occupation of politicians to deny this ubiquity, nay, universality of corroded hearts, to discount the barren laboriousness of all…

— William T. Vollmann

There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand.

— Annie Besant

Socialism starts when government creates a problem, and then government steps in to solve the problem.

— Carly Fiorina

Almost all analysis of politics and government considers relatively surface phenomena.

— Dominic Cummings

Print science fiction writers often do consulting for government bodies.

— Robert J. Sawyer

There aren't many political humorists. Dave Barry is excellent, but he doesn't do it much.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Government intervention only hurts; it doesn't help.

— Jimmy John Liautaud

Certainly, the murder of civilians for political statement did not just begin on September 11, 2001.

— Cliff Stearns

We will never hear about people's Bitcoin accounts being frozen or seized by a government agency.

— Roger Ver

I was always fascinated by politics, and I was exposed to it quite a lot.

— J. B. Pritzker

People are very interested in politics, they just don't like it labelled politics.

— Douglas Hurd

I'm not a member of an organized party. I'm a Democrat.

— Will Rogers

The abuse of children is the worst offence that anybody can commit.

— Ann Widdecombe

Government can't create wealth, but it can create the conditions for private enterprise to flourish.

— Bill Owens

There's a smokestack on the back of every government program.

— Milton Friedman

There's some politicians who still seriously believe that we haven't got global warming.

— Ridley Scott

A Patriot is someone who stands for his country always, and for his government when it is deserved.

— Mark Twain