Politics Quotes · Page 237

Socialism can only be put into practice only by methods which most socialists disapprove.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

I love politics. If you're not involved, part of the debate, you can't influence anything.

— Tanni Grey-Thompson

In highly charged political matters, one person's ambiguity may be another person's truth.

— Richard Mottram

Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence.

— Thomas Paine

The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.

— Woodrow Wilson

An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.

— Adlai Stevenson I

I ain't never seen no head so level that it could bear the lettin' in of politics.

— Ellen Glasgow

In a parliamentary democracy, it is the job of parliament to decide the law, not the government.

— Angela Rayner

The aim of constitutional government is to preserve the Republic; that of revolutionary government is to lay its foundation.

— Maximilien Robespierre

My political life has been informed by the view that if there was any truth to religion there wouldn't really be any…

— Christopher Hitchens

It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning…

— Anonymous

“Conversations about politics can give you the somewhat errant impression that you can make a difference to people's lives by talking about…

— Daniela Norris

In fact, it is more interesting to play someone whose politics is not in sync with my own politics because then I…

— Rasika Dugal

I don't put much faith in the political system because it's a question of how are you going to run capitalism, not…

— Tom Hodgkinson

As governor, I'm spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.

— Jack Markell

My dad was ex-military, so I was raised to always know about current events, particularly what was going on with the military…

— Harris Faulkner

“In this martial world dominated by men, women had little place. The Church's teachings might underpin feudal morality, yet when it came…

— Alison Weir

Italy remained attached to conservatism. It had a political class that lived in the past and didn't build the future. The past…

— Matteo Renzi

The government isn't going to say, "We're going to regulate banks, but we'll leave these other companies alone." I think the regulators…

— Jamie Dimon

Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the…

— Henry A. Wallace

Generally speaking, the less privileged groups in democratic society, as they become aware of their interests and their political power, will be…

— Gunnar Myrdal

My life is about politics, a lot of about music, and a lot about things other than acting. I like traveling the…

— Olivia Wilde

It is true that we need a consensus to go forward with restoring passenger rail in America, and often a consensus is…

— James Howard Kunstler

I am interested in the political economy of institutional power relationships in transition. The question is one of "reconstructive" communities as a…

— Gar Alperovitz

The first black president will be a politician who is black.

— Douglas Wilder

Governments must now take a leading role in moving their nations in the right direction.

— Henry W. Kendall

I really don't have tremendous political ambition. I have policy ambition.

— Paul Ryan

I started thinking about getting into politics when David Cameron became leader.

— Sam Gyimah

Governments keep their promises only when they are forced, or when it is to their advantage to do so.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Happens I am very political. I have deep political instincts.

— Will Ferrell

I wonder if you are ashamed of calling a Democratically elected government a fascist government.

— Medea Benjamin

I do what I do. Barack Obama does what politicians do.

— Jeremiah Wright

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

— Robertson Davies

No great advance has been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy.

— Lyman Beecher

For just experience tells, in every soil, That those who think must govern those who toil

— Oliver Goldsmith

I wanted to be a journalist. I used to write articles at university about politics.

— Ana Patricia Botin

A fundamental premise of politics is we can make this work if people just never figure it out.

— John F. Kerry

Transcend political correctness and strive for human righteousness.

— Anthony J. D'Angelo

There are a lot of good causes out there, but they can't possibly all be served by government.

— Jesse Ventura

I went to college for political science and got a bartending job.

— Jon Taffer