Politics Quotes · Page 215

I feel so important; I voted for another person to become a politician and be 100 times richer than me!

— Obsidian Panther

I am interested in politics and I have always kept a tab on it.

— Jackky Bhagnani

“threat or actuality of government surveillance may psychologically inhibit freedom of speech.”

— Glenn Greenwald

Ideas are the only things that count, and politicians are, for the most part, pretty much irrelevant.

— Ron Paul

Don't talk to the people until you've listened to the people.

— Anne Klein

Our leaders are the finest men, that's whey we elect them again and again.

— Tom Paxton

Give a moment or two to the angry young man with his foot in his mouth and his heart in his hand.

— Billy Joel

“You govern people, you do good and bad things. If you don't have guts to do bad, then step aside.”

— Toba Beta

Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don't do that, we really deserve the…

— Alice Walker

If we can manage to break free, to open the system and embrace all choices for education, we will be the first…

— Betsy DeVos

Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions…

— Havelock Ellis

Save among politicians it is no longer necessary for any educated American to profess belief in Thirteenth Century ideas

— Anonymous

My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a…

— Narendra Modi

In fact, it works the other way: A government as big and bossy as this one is maintained on the backs of…

— Mitch Daniels

In a small budget film, coming from an independent filmmaker, it is not possible financially to get a wider reach unless we…

— Sanjay Mishra

Our point is we don't want to sit in the government and tell you what you have to buy [as a health…

— Paul Ryan

“We have therefore to inquire what there is about Machiavelli to impress the mind of Europe so prodigiously and so curiously, and…

— T.S. Eliot

There's only one thing that all of the central banks control and that is the base, their own liability, and they can…

— Milton Friedman

What is it but a cunningly devised scheme to take from one State and to give to another - to replenish the…

— John C. Calhoun

The government of the United States is not entitled to affirm as a universal proposition, with reference to a number of independent…

— Richard Cecil

But new details drawn from government documents and interviews show that senior White House aides were given information at the time suggesting…

— Carol D. Leonnig

I think it's perfectly possible for us to stay outside of power politics, or parliamentary politics, and speak about things like the…

— Fatima Bhutto

“Recall those scenes from 1984, in which the brainwashed masses respond to blatant government lies with mindless chants of support? Keep this…

— Joseph Befumo

For many Washington liberals, terrorism was not the instrument of political fanatics and evil men, but was the product of social conditions…

— David Horowitz

The art of government is the organization of idolatry.

— George Bernard Shaw

To be locked into partisan politics doesn't permit you to think clearly.

— Rudy Giuliani

Powers once assumed are never relinquished, just as bureaucracies, once created, never die.

— Charley Reese

If you want to kill the Syrian people, who's going to support us as a government, as officials? No one.

— Bashar al-Assad

I think 'community,' in the sense in which politicians use, it is largely a cant term.

— John Lanchester

In a society of criminals, the innocent man goes to jail.

— Philip K. Dick

I have been the only female minister in every government department I've worked in.

— Liz Truss

But the biggest fake of the year, Paul Begala's last smile

— Dennis Miller

“Kadafi is a zombie in a pillbox hat, that's what he is!”

— Bill Maher

I try not to change my political point of view from paper to paper.

— Jonathan Shapiro

It is often too late by the time the government reacts.

— Vandana Shiva

I wonder if it's possible to be a Republican and a Christian at the same time.

— Hillary Clinton

American politics are important because it affects the entire world in often negative ways.

— Bryce Dessner

It's not about division. It's not about politics. My concern is how do we come together?

— LeVar Burton

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

— Confucius

“A brick could be used as food for thought. Every politician should chew on that.
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— Jarod Kintz