Politics Quotes · Page 212

“Crime wouldn’t pay if the government ran it. —UNKNOWN”

— Gordon G. Chang

“It is one thing to believe in witches, and quite another to believe in witch-smellers.”

— G.K. Chesterton

I will support vigorously whoever commits to reduce the size of government the most.

— Erik Prince

A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity.

— George Grenville

In an unjust society the only place for a just man is prison.

— Henry David Thoreau

The only good government... Is a bad one in a hell of a fright.

— Joyce Cary

You subscribe politics to it. I subscribe freedom to it.

— George W. Bush

Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces.

— Henry Adams

“Blankets could be used as scapegoats for global warming. But why blame the blankets? Wouldn’t it be more fun, and more accurate,…

— Jarod Kintz

Its hard to believe that in the greatest democracy in the world, we need legislation to prevent the government from writing and…

— Senator John Kerry

As soon as somebody comes out for a politician, especially in Hollywood, when they all go, 'I'm voting for this guy!' –…

— Kid Rock

The mayor of Sochi is now saying that there are no gay people in Sochi. So the only thing that is flaming…

— David Letterman

You know, I'm a free market politician and I think I'm the only one who worked for think-tanks like the Montreal Economic…

— Maxime Bernier

Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as…

— Maynard James Keenan

My great objection to this government is, that it does not leave us the means of defending our rights, or of waging…

— Patrick Henry

A camel is a horse designed by a committee and a committee's a sweet running piece of machinery compared to any government.

— Gordon R. Dickson

If government ownership of land and natural resources was the best way to protect the environment, then we should have found a…

— Malcolm Wallop

Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of…

— Max Weber

“Members of the educated elite upheld open-mindedness as the supreme political virtue but refused to debate their own idea of the good…

— Christopher Lasch

“BUT WHAT, really, had the People’s Party—the farmers who called themselves “Alliancemen”—asked for? Only that when men found themselves at the mercy…

— Robert A. Caro

The economy is terrible it's been terrible for years now, and the reason it's bad is not because of a debt-ceiling vote.…

— Todd Rokita

“I became aware of Jews in my early teens, as I started to pick up the signals from the Christian church. Not…

— Phillip Adams

I think it does because if you think of where "The Daily Show" was when I inherited it from Jon Stewart, I…

— Trevor Noah

Racism in our countries is a fact in that the indian is not allowed to be a politician or aspire to being…

— Rigoberta Menchu

The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party.

— Grover Norquist

The Australian people expect the Government to govern, they don't expect it to make excuses.

— Tony Abbott

My definition of a redundancy is an air-bag in a politician's car.

— Larry Hagman

Political liberty is nothing else but the diffusion of power.

— Lord Hailsham

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

— Herbert Hoover

To be political actually means to care about your community.

— Sharon Gannon

I think Churchill would be appalled at the Thatcher government.

— Edward Heath

Like all successful politicians I married above myself.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

all the salt of Turkish life consists of politics and official intrigue.

— Isabel Burton

People are not in a good mood when any politician's face appears on television.

— Mark Russell

I will not rest until I have transformed the landscape of American politics.

— Newt Gingrich

Many a man has been dined out of his religion, and his politics, and his manhood, almost.

— Henry Ward Beecher

For most of history, genocide was just something governments did and nobody blinked.

— Nicholas D. Kristof

You know, it's just politics, it's a game grown-ups like to play, like we lil' children play with toys.

— Sharon Maas

If we treated politics like more of a profession, like it should be, we would all be a lot better off.

— Stephen J. Dubner

“We’d all like t’vote fer th’best man, but he’s never a candidate.”

— Kin Hubbard