Politics Quotes · Page 238

“I don’t like dirt, because nothing is dirtier. Except politics.
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— Jarod Kintz

The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Political doesn't necessarily mean you have an agenda.

— Toni Morrison

Politics is not how you vote, it is how you live. It is not how you choose, but how you think.

— Nancy Fox

“There are pockets of wealth in this country. Mostly those pockets are in the politicians’ pants.”

— Jarod Kintz

If you would have the slave show the virtues of the freeman, you must first make him free.

— Henry George

Exaggeration is the political pundits' stock in trade: nobody built a loyal readership on equivocation.

— Nick Boles

I'm a theological writer mistaken for a political writer. My theme is grace versus karma.

— Luis Alberto Urrea

The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to…

— Tony Blair

President Obama was never going repeal Obamacare - he was not going to be brought to his knees with the threat of…

— Dana Perino

Freedom was given to humanity by God. But, governments, if they can help it, never give freedom. They just hand out slavery…

— Taylor Caldwell

Political renegades always start their career of treachery as 'the best men of all parties' and end up in the Tory knackery.

— Neil Kinnock

I am not a politician nor an activist but in my small way try and bring change with the kind of films…

— Abhay Deol

The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone.

— Robert Heilbroner

Cynics who say power is all that counts in politics forget that power without ideas is just improvisation.

— Michael Ignatieff

“to Central Park. To sit on a bench.” “But there is no more Central Park, Mr. Biskle. It was turned into a…

— Philip K. Dick

When the media and even people within our own party treat minorities as a single voting block, it is a shocking display…

— Leslyn Lewis

It is curious that people tend to regard government as a quasi-divine, selfless, Santa Claus organization. Government was constructed neither for ability…

— Anonymous

If you have your own currency, you have your own governance, so each currency becomes their own mini-government. Mini-government is a big…

— William Mougayar

The day after the Republican convention ended, there was another political bomb that was dropped on the U.S. presidential election [2016] from…

— Rachel Maddow

I think U.S. citizens are trained at a young age to fully inhale the system, the rhetoric and ideologies surrounding democracy, capitalism,…

— Alix Olson

Ideal government would be a very boring job - it would be a matter of organizing a lot of utilities and keeping…

— Grace Slick

“Politics is beginning to gather itself into an election season in which the price of a candidate's haircuts will be as important…

— Charles P. Pierce

Subsidies and mandates are just two of the privileges that government can bestow on politically connected friends. Others include grants, loans, tax…

— Charles Koch

Let's agree, right here, right now, to keep the peoples government open and pay our bills on time.

— Barack Obama

Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.

— Jasper Fforde

Poor Al Gore. Global warming completely debunked via the very internet you invented.

— Jon Stewart

It is like we are obliged to assume that the government is only doing what it says it is doing.

— James Bovard

Iraq has lost 5 percent of its population, a number that in the U.S. would equal 14 million people.

— Mick Jagger

We've always tried to run a transparent and honest government.

— Naveen Patnaik

Now you have to be a collaborator and you have to bring on governments and convince people.

— Bill Gates

But thanks to my invention, my capitalist friends and I were able to bring the government to its knees.

— Erno Rubik

You deserve whoever governs you ... Everyone is responsible for the actions of their leaders.

— Greg Bear

An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.

— James Dean

The BJP has never considered its political opponents as enemies.

— Yogi Adityanath

All governments must maintain power through consent, not coercion.

— Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

Government exists only for the good of the governed.

— Pythagoras

Leadership is the art of controlling while politics is the art of influencing.

— Lameck K Kosgei

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Government seems to me to be a part of religion itself - a thing sacred in its institutions and ends.

— William Penn