Politics Quotes · Page 229

Governments lie; bankers lie; even auditors sometimes lie: gold tells the truth.

— William Rees-Mogg

The essence of government is force, and most often that force is used to accomplish evil ends.

— Walter E. Williams

The federal government should only be flying the flag that represents all people, the American flag.

— Marjorie Taylor Greene

Political parties are complicated coalitions and aren't excessively theoretical.

— William Kristol

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

— Wendell Phillips

One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Breastroke is an athletic event, butterfly is a political statement.

— Paul Tsongas

History furnishes to politics all the arguments that it needs, for the chosen cause.

— Romain Rolland

“Cynicism is extremely contagious, and the most pious among us cannot long endure its potency. The gullible should be on their guard,…

— Mike Corbett

Governments will rise, and governments will fall, and man will do evil to man, and all we can do is turn our…

— Anonymous

I am not a federal employee. I am a constitutional officer. My job is the Constitution of the United States, I am…

— Tom DeLay

In and out of government, I've always been willing to take on complicated, sometimes unpopular, issues and work them through to have…

— Bernie Sanders

It is admitted that all men have an equal right to the enjoyment of their life, property and personal security; and it…

— Noah Webster

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the…

— Ronald Reagan

I am not going to answer any questions as to my association, my philosophical or religious beliefs or my political beliefs, or…

— Pete Seeger

If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every…

— Ludwig von Mises

One thing I fear, that you Americans will do the same thing that you did after the last war. I mean that…

— Hjalmar Schacht

The male role is heavily policed from birth, by parents, peers and bosses. Politicians in particular are harshly kept in line by…

— Grayson Perry

I'm someone who believes that all political campaigns need to be grassroots-driven. Commercials can only get you so far. Mail can only…

— Katie Hill

The decision was strictly based on my interest of living and working in Singapore. I am obligated and I will pay hundreds…

— Eduardo Saverin

For all the sublimity of art, physics, music, mathematics, and other manifestations of human genius, everything depends on the mundane, frustrating, often…

— Charles Krauthammer

“Four Millions of people heretofore declared by the highest tribunal in the land, not citizens of the United States, nor eligible to…

— Ron Chernow

“A woman today who has no goal, no purpose, no ambition patterning her days into the future, making her stretch and grow…

— Betty Friedan

Globalization and trade liberalization were supposed to make us all better off through the mechanism of trickle-down economics. What we seemed to…

— Joseph Stiglitz

India has never played politics with national security.

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

It's a rarity when someone takes a political risk in Washington today in the public interest.

— Arlen Specter

We must save the Constitution from the [Supreme] Court and the Court from itself.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Common sense is not an issue in politics--it's an affliction.

— Will Rogers

I personally do not believe in politics, hatred, or anger in my musical composition.

— Horace Silver

Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny precisely because its principles are the founding principles.

— Mark Levin

This is politics. People in power never have to play by the same rules.

— Richelle Mead

If I was a political mercenary, I would be using my talents in another line of work.

— David Brock

A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.

— William Randolph Hearst

I don't know people who don't say, boy the government is working better now,

— Andrew Cuomo

The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.

— Stanley Baldwin

In Europe public men do resign. But here it's a lost art. You have to impeach 'em.

— Will Rogers

If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it.

— Abbas Kiarostami

Undermining the rule of law is an assault on the government of the United States.

— Heather Cox Richardson

A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.

— Oscar Levant

That's pretty tough talk from a guy who has fewer days at work this year than he has houses.

— Tom DeLay