Politics Quotes · Page 222

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

— Voltaire

Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Let's be honest: Kerry has no idea what it is to be even a middle-class white in this country.

— Glenn Reynolds

The right to be a journalist is part of the Bill of Rights.

— John C. Dvorak

We shouldn't have politicians micromanaging this war because it is complex and unconventional.

— Bill Shuster

I would with such perfection govern, sir, T'excel the golden age.

— William Shakespeare

People in Oklahoma don't wake up every morning wondering what the government is going to do for them.

— Mick Cornett

A dose of humility goes a long way in life and in politics.

— Ron Fournier

A man must first govern himself ere he is fit to govern a family; and his family ere he be fit to…

— Walter Raleigh

Doing things right in politics is no different than doing things right in life: Tell the truth, be yourself.

— Jason Kander

I don't like the term "universal bank." The Chinese government legitimately wants to have a very strong economy. When they talk about…

— Jamie Dimon

It is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without it.

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

People power. It has no limits. In politics, every politician in Ukraine is afraid of that. They know, if people go to…

— Vitali Klitschko

Quite often the federal government purchases things at prices higher than individuals in the private marketplace.

— Kris Kobach

I think that the churches do a better job in many respects than the government does in various kinds of things. Extending…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

If Wall Street paid a tax on every “game” they run, we would get enough revenue to run the government on.

— Will Rogers

I mean, the part you don't like, I mean, that's the only part. That's the part no one likes, and that is…

— Laura Bush

“The assumption that the city, the state, or even the federal government has the plans and the wherewithal to handle this particular…

— Ted Koppel

If you've been paying attention to politics for the last, you know, 30 years, it would not have shocked you, but what…

— Jill Stein

I am for a government rigorously frugal & simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of…

— Thomas Jefferson

“The stakes involved in Washington policy debates are often so high-- whether we send our young men and women to war; whether…

— Barack Obama

“Our founding fathers placed so much emphasis on nurturing a well-educated populace because they knew that our system of democracy could not…

— Ben Carson

“James Reston, Jr.: You know the first and greatest sin of the deception of television is that it simplifies; it diminishes, great…

— Peter Morgan

But at the end of the day, I want people to say that I played a major role in restoring people's confidence…

— Kathy Hochul

We need elected officials who overcome partisan politics to really help people.

— Ed O'Neill

The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.

— Rufus Choate

A nation that hates politics will not long survive as a democracy.

— E. J. Dionne

The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.

— Ted Shackelford

I'll remind you all, however, that for government, existence is a privilege, not a right.

— L. Neil Smith

“Take away America's money, and you've got a country of tribes.”

— Bruce Sterling

Democracy is not a form of government, but a form of social organisation.

— B. R. Ambedkar

It desirable to add one or two facts bearing on the domestic political aspects of the problem.

— Dillon Anderson

For Obama, 'rule of law' is merely his political silly-putty.

— Wayne LaPierre

The government of Dubai, as much as it is a government, it is a corporation.

— Jamal Khashoggi

“. . . being on the wrong side of a pissing contest is never a good thing.”

— Mark M. Bello

I prefer the Greens to remain an opposition party that's able to hold the government to account.

— Elizabeth May

The American government is making nuclear weapons like there's no tomorrow.

— Emo Philips

Fannie and Freddie are creations of government. They were given a huge leg up over their competitors.

— Nancy Pfotenhauer

Freedom exists only where the people take care of the government.

— Woodrow Wilson

Canada I don't trust. The Canadian government hates me more than the Japanese.

— Paul Watson