Politics Quotes · Page 220

“To really change the world, we have to help people change the way they see things.”

— Suzy Kassem

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.

— Groucho Marx

I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance.

— Wangari Maathai

“In politics, when reason and emotion collide, emotion invariably wins”

— Drew Westen

For the most part, Americans speak of culture and politics as if they were two separate realms.

— Ellen Willis

Only as strong as our love for this land, only as tall as we stand.

— Phil Ochs

I love little kids, I hate little kids being used by cynical politicians, though.

— Steve Schmidt

Anything the government gives you is just another link in the chains that destroy your liberty.

— Alan Keyes

Saudi Arabia is a very responsible country. For decades, we used our oil policy as responsible economic tool and isolated it from…

— Khalid A. Al-Falih

Politics is corrupting the American judicial system in much the same way the judicial system was corrupted in Nazi Germany.

— Benjamin Carson

Full social and political engagement is impossible without economic empowerment, a point that is as true for women as it is for…

— Arancha Gonzalez

Politics, after all, is largely about power. And power goes to the core of our issues of control and narcissism and need…

— John Ortberg

What was I qualified to do to make a living? Nothing. You don't need qualifications as an actor or a politician. And…

— James Garner

A man who doesn't detest a bad government is a fool. And if there were such a thing as a good government…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Besides, everyone knows politicians are the most trusted people on the planet—how could they possibly hide anything, being in constant contact with…

— Susan Kaye Quinn

I know that sometimes politics creates situations in which people want to say particular things for political reasons.

— Reuven Rivlin

The government sends low-flying helicopters to chase the horses into corrals and then takes them from the plains of the American West…

— Jane Velez-Mitchell

I paid every effort to seek deregulation throughout FEDEX's start-up and expansion periods, because the biggest impediment to our growth was the…

— Frederick W. Smith

Our going to Washington [The Million Man March] was not to petition government, but to petition our God and Creator, that we…

— Louis Farrakhan

“Colonel Jiang Shi hated politicians. Few possessed analytic minds. Fewer still understood the tenets of warfare. It was why he had wanted…

— Brad Thor

“If then the people promises simply to obey, by that very act it dissolves itself and loses what makes it a people;…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Politics is not an isolated, individualist adventure. Women really need to emerge as a power to be the countervailing power to the…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

In a free society, the “vision thing” is left to private individuals; civil servants are kept on a tight leash, because free…

— Ilana Mercer

“So long as government and law provide for the security and well-being of men in their common life, the arts, literature and…

— Jean-Jaques Rousseau

What typically happens in government is the exact opposite of how things should work.

— Steve Hilton

“As long as people believe in government, wars will never end.”

— Larken Rose

I was a political junkie from an early age; I got a front row seat on something I love to do.

— Sarah Huckabee Sanders

A government can't cut its way out of a recession any more than you can dig yourself out of a hole.

— Caroline Lucas

In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

A government cannot be truly just without affirming the intrinsic value of human life.

— Charles Colson

All tools have intrinsic politics and technology is the tool of now.

— Godfrey Reggio

The worst thing a government can do now in Spain is to do nothing

— Mariano Rajoy

A lot of people in government don't really read books at all.

— Geoff Mulgan

You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.

— Eldridge Cleaver

A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

— Murray Kempton

I hated what Margaret Thatcher had done. How she'd taken jobs. I hated her divide and rule politics.

— Liz Kendall

“I’m a handyman. I work with my hand. I masturbate for a living. That’s right, I’m in politics.”

— Jarod Kintz

“The politics of the greater evil was a common creation at a time of chaos. —”

— Timothy Snyder

The political system loves the extremes, it doesnt so much show a lot love for the moderates.

— Claire McCaskill

I am not a politician. I contested to get Modi ji another seat.

— Kirron Kher