Politics Quotes · Page 217

There are times when every act, no matter how private and unconscious, becomes political

— Renata Adler

If you want to be loved by everyone, don't go into politics.

— Teresa Heinz

“All dreams of empire end because day breaks in the hearts of the slaves used to build it.”

— Luke Montgomery

I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools.

— William Shakespeare

It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

— W. Somerset Maugham

I came to politics later in life so I bring a different life experience to it.

— Kathleen Wynne

All politics are local, whether in Kabul or in Canada.

— Chris Alexander

“What did he want?” Sevro asks. “What do all politicians want?” “Prostitutes.” “Control.”

— Pierce Brown

Sustainability is a political choice, not a technical one. It's not a question of whether we can be sustainable, but whether we…

— Anonymous

Withdrawal of American troops must be a unilateral act, as the invasion of Vietnam by the American government was a unilateral act…

— Noam Chomsky

It is the basic principle of Marxism that any attempt to reconcile capital and labor so that they both co-operate in peace…

— Fulton J. Sheen

Politics has been a roller coaster, but I'll never look back and say, 'Why did I do it?' In fact, if my…

— Chiranjeevi

It has always been a central plank of Donald Trump's approach to politics to make us doubt what the media tell us…

— Jessica Tarlov

If you want to slow medical inflation in the private sector, it makes sense to expand the government's investment in private health…

— Timothy Noah

When this government [Chiang Kaishek's] finally fell there was no one ready to teach the Chinese the human way of life.

— L. Ron Hubbard

A lot of people say my songs are political, but that's not by plan. It's because I never found a place where…

— Manu Chao

“This kind of hero worship has been promoted by politicians and their complicit media since the middle of the last century. Once…

— Joseph Befumo

[Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw…

— Thomas Jefferson

“The left loses most policy debates, leading them to engage in the politics of personal destruction. Many liberals do not see conservatives…

— Eric Golub

With debt free college there is absolutely no incentive to rein in administrative costs when the government is foolishly pushing everyone to…

— Lisa Kennedy Montgomery

When the Statist makes a wrong decision, its impact is far-reaching, for he uses the power of government to impose his decision…

— Mark Levin

It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same time it's a very big…

— Rachel Weisz

“There was no politics in Persia because the great king was the master of slaves, not rulers of citizens. The point is…

— Alan Ryan

Trump's erratic behavior has long been the subject of political criticism, late-night-television jokes, and even speculation about whether it's part of some…

— George T. Conway III

I know all the bad things that happened in that war. I was in uniform four years myself.

— Ronald Reagan

“It's a good thing the American people aren't getting all the government they're paying for.”

— Will Rogers

I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services.

— Imran Khan

You don't have good government unless you have good people working in government.

— Andy Kim

There's overwhelming evidence that there was a connection between Al Qaeda and the Iraqi government

— Dick Cheney

A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Steal a little and they throw you in jail Steal a lot and they make you king.

— Bob Dylan

For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.

— Olof Palme

Don't make a novel to establish a principle of political economy. You will spoil both.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the government's eyes, the Branch Davidians were a threat.

— Malcolm Gladwell

They are each good when they are out, and each bad when they are in.

— Will Rogers

Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.

— Anonymous

SAMO as an end to to mindwash religion, nowhere politics and bogus philosophy.

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

I do vote but I don't think that any political party represents my point of view.

— Rupert Sheldrake

An invention is something that was "impossible" up to then that's why governments grant patents.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Behind every corrupt politician are 10-20 corrupt businessmen.

— Mo Ibrahim