Politics Quotes · Page 219

I know that many in Europe are unhappy with their governments' policies toward the Palestinians.

— Ismail Haniyeh

Have I made mistakes in my many years of political activity? Of course! I am sorry and regret them.

— Ehud Olmert

I am tired of the dumbing-down of American politics and the trend of voting without thinking.

— Jackie Fuchs

They took your commandments off the schoolhouse walls, they say it's a crime to pray.

— Randy Travis

Are you better off now than you were four years ago?

— Ronald Reagan

The Turkish government will never tolerate the creation of a Kurdish state.

— Peter Bergen

Our government should speak a common language with the American people - plain English.

— Alan Siegel

It's me who is my enemy Me who beats me up Me who makes the monsters Me who strips my confidence.

— Paula Cole

It's one thing to decry and defy political correctness in the name of efficiently achieving clarity or revealing an honest truth. But…

— Faith Salie

After listening to you for slightly more than one hour, I can tell that you are a strong and intelligent man and…

— Howard Metzenbaum

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Parts of the Voting Rights Act are due to expire next year if Congress doesn't extend them, including the section that guarantees…

— Marty Meehan

“The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice. Theodore Roosevelt”

— Hugh Brogan

Non-co-operation in the political field is an extension of the doctrine as it is practised in the domestic field.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Our stand is crystal-clear - we want peace in Ukraine, which can only be attained through broad national dialogue in which all…

— Sergei Lavrov

The fundamental problem with the immigration system in our country is that it serves the needs of wealthy donors, political activists and…

— Donald Trump

The relationship that Tony Blair has with Cherie Blair doesn't have an immediate binding effect on the body politic with Britain. But…

— Tom Hooper

What you want in an interview is four things: You want someone who can explain what they do very well, who can…

— Larry King

The Boston bombing provided the opportunity for the government to turn what should have been a police investigation into a military-style occupation…

— Ron Paul

“Alexander Hamilton’s proposal for a First Bank of the United States met resistance from Thomas Jefferson and James Madison because the power…

— Brion T. McClanahan

Democracy is buying a big house you can't afford with money you don't have to impress people you wish were dead. And,…

— Johnny Carson

The way we're really going to grow the economy is to invest in people, to invest in innovation, to have the federal…

— Joe Lieberman

Government has only one religion - India first! Government has one holy book - the Constitution. The Government must be immersed in…

— Narendra Modi

“Thirty years ago [written 2009], over-regulation, over-taxation, mis-regulation, statism, state corporatism, and economic folly, cosiness and regulatory capture, and a crescent ideological…

— G.M.W. Wemyss

The UN could help the Iraqi government get on its feet and help the United States withdraw a bit more.

— Brent Scowcroft

Our elections are free-it's in the results where eventually we pay.

— Bill Stern

In these days, nations are militant, we have slavery under government.

— The Clash

This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments.

— Jacques Delors

There is no monopoly on common sense on either side of the political fence.

— Sting

Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.

— Colin Powell

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

— Harry S Truman

It's not healthy for a society if the people hate their own government.

— Garry Wills

Imagine what things would be like if the news media actually sided with civilization.

— Glenn Reynolds

I actually think it's very important that the Navy SEAL community stay out of politics.

— Eric Greitens

Life can make you or it can break you. But the good part is you can choose to allow it.

— Serenity C

Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.

— Jane Rule

I know the good from the bad, also the in-between, but I was never political.

— Luise Rainer

I wonder if politicians know less about the land, now that they campaign by air.

— Andre Dubus

I don't have to experience tragedy to understand it.

— Dan Quayle

“The general ethos of the people they have to govern determines the behaviour of politicians.”

— T.S. Eliot