Politics Quotes · Page 228

The golden rule has no place in a political campaign.

— John James Ingalls

“Politics isn’t dirty. And neither are politicians. No, politicians are filthy.”

— Jarod Kintz

At its worst, Washington is a place where name-calling partisan politics too often trumps policy.

— Bernie Sanders

Face the truth squarely. In politics that is always the best and the only correct attitude.

— Vladimir Lenin

The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men.

— Samuel Adams

What if the government built this thing? I doubt it. Why? Cause it works.

— Anonymous

I definitely envision myself in politics at some point.

— Roy Nelson

It's political Daddyism and it's as old as demagogues and despotism.

— Barry Goldwater

When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say…

— Iain Duncan Smith

I don't think I've had any great success in predicting politics or social change, nor have I really tried.

— Paul Krugman

“That government is best which rules least," quoted in Torbet. Leland was a Baptist spokesman and pastor who knew Thomas Jefferson, circa…

— Robert G. Torbet

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“...if the Democrats suggested a plan to burn down the Capitol building, the Republicans would counter with a plan to do it…

— Douglas Wilson

'Political Animals' was before its time: a little darker, a little edgier. The audience wasn't ready for it.

— Bonnie Hammer

Its easy to view politicians as corrupt and voting essentially an act of picking the lesser of two evils. I understand that…

— Macklemore

There's people on the left who refuse to consider that anybody but the government can solve any of their problems.

— Kat Timpf

“Thomas Piketty, an economist at the Paris School of Economics, warned in his zeitgeist-shifting book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, that without…

— Jane Mayer

Our government is ready to guarantee their investments for them, and then we will create tax incentives. We are interested in having…

— Ibrahim Rugova

“The cost of geoengineering the entire planet for a decade could be less than the $6 billion the Italian government is spending…

— David Keith

Some vested interests have an inclination to tarnish the image of those in politics and there have been occasions when some people…

— Pinarayi Vijayan

And as Americans, we must ask ourselves: Are we really so different? Must we stereotype those who disagree with us? Do we…

— Dave Berry

The belief that recipients of government aid are better off the more we spend on them is remarkably persistent. No matter how…

— Paul Ryan

“A problem with us South Africans is our lack of integrity and patriotism. Some of us will do anything for money, even…

— De philosopher DJ Kyos

“Moreover, the bureaucracy will be of the noblest and most virtuous sort, with no personal, political, or ideological agenda, motivated solely and…

— Mark R. Levin

[B]ipartisanship means tarring and feathering politicans from both major parties.

— Glenn Reynolds

“Violence is the power of the state; imagination and non-violence the power of civil society.”

— Rebecca Solnit

“A man might share his wealth, but never his authority.”

— Amit Kalantri

My reason for joining politics is not to make money, as I have enough of my own, but to help the poor.

— Kumar Sanu

Both the Left and the Right need to connect as people rather than as political entities.

— Charlie Sykes

There is nothing more dangerous than a government of the many controlled by the few.

— Lawrence Lessig

“Clarification is not to clarify things. It is to put one’s self in the clear (Sir Humphrey Appleby)”

— Jonathan Lynn & Anthony Jay

Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents.

— Aristotle

The most terrifying words in the English langauge are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

— Ronald Reagan

A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There are over 100 entities in the federal government that have something to do with homeland security.

— Andrew Card

More government control of doctors and their reimbursement schemes will only create more problems.

— Scott Gottlieb

The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.

— Barry Goldwater

The policies of all powers are inherent in their geography.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The first object of human association [is] the full improvement of their condition.

— Thomas Jefferson

“If we can't say what we think under our roof, then we have no roof.”

— André Aciman