Politics Quotes · Page 225

I think with the beginning of any political administration, you have to build trust, and it takes time.

— Stanley A. McChrystal

“It's politics . . . It makes everybody stupid. When you grow up, you'll know what I mean.”

— Pat Conroy

So I hope women will consider a life in politics. We need women, you see. We need them.

— Jo Swinson

The Government and the police are only able to do their jobs with the consent of the people.

— Julia Hartley-Brewer

When I'm finished with politics, I'll have a richer life. I'd like to go to the theatre.

— Nigel Farage

Not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysicks, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetorick, or Logick.

— Robert Hooke

Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.

— Benjamin Whichcote

The lifespan of faith and culture is much more than the ones who play politics in its name.

— Ravish Kumar

In a period of such obsessing political controversy as the present, I believe that I am that strange animal, the individual without…

— Wyndham Lewis

Based on every statement I’ve heard out of any Republican in the last two years, the Israelis are controlling our government.

— Bill Maher

Any nation that can survive what we have lately in the way of government, is on the high road to permanent glory.

— Molly Ivins

Regardless of what side of the issue you are on, the release of the Mueller Report is essential to restoring faith in…

— Jeff Van Drew

Boundary, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of…

— Ambrose Bierce

Precisely because our political speeches are meant to be reported, they are not worth reporting. Precisely because they are carefully designed to…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Political union means transferring the prerogatives of national legislatures to the European parliament, which would then decide how to structure Europe's fiscal,…

— Barry Eichengreen

It's the publicity function of Amnesty that I think has made its name so widely known, not only to readers in the…

— Peter Benenson

No sensible elected politician would look for spending reductions out of sacking teachers and nurses. We all know how important they are…

— John Redwood

I believe, unlike people that are totally free-market, laissez-faire fundamentalists, that there is an important role that the government can play -…

— Nouriel Roubini

I'll be honest, there have been times when I've listened to the rhetoric in Europe where an easy equivalent somehow between the…

— Barack Obama

An avant-garde man is like an enemy inside a city he is bent on destroying, against which he rebels; for like any…

— Eugene Ionesco

It's important to have a life and spend time outside of those things [music and politics], in order to appreciate what you've…

— Eddie Vedder

The Value-Added Tax, a sales tax that applies at every level of business transactions, is an easy tax for governments to collect,…

— T.R. Reid

“When the barons and local elites recognize that political power will be increasingly more centralized and that this process is hard to…

— Daron Acemoğlu

“In a time when the chance of another civil war did not seem remote, a philosophy that warned against the idolatry of…

— Louis Menand

Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.

— Thomas Jefferson

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.

— Lady Bird Johnson

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size.

— Ronald Reagan

I can talk a lot and not reveal anything; I would make a great politician.

— Imelda May

I said to myself, "If the government thinks I'm an artist, I must be one."

— Glenn Ligon

What other form of government, indeed, can so well deserve our esteem and love?

— John Adams

We cannot have foreign governments interceding in our elections.

— Robby Mook

Never did a government commence under auspices so favorable, nor ever was success so complete.

— James Monroe

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Citizens United decision dramatically intensified the political gridlock in our country.

— Patrick Murphy

All political parties, if they are to be successful, have to be broad churches.

— Dominic Grieve

The federal government should never be in the business of politically manufacturing biological science.

— Byron Donalds

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

— H. L. Mencken

I think about politics, so it would be inauthentic not to talk about it.

— Lauren Mayberry

Economics and politics are the governing powers of life today, and that's why everything is so screwy.

— Joseph Campbell

Every politician has a promising career. Unfortunately, most of them do not keep those promises

— Anonymous