Politics Quotes · Page 241

Maybe someday you will understand, that something for nothing is everybody's plan.

— Bob Dylan

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

— e. e. cummings

Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death.

— Adolf Hitler

You don't help a depressed economy by giving control of its resources to politicians.

— Robert P. Murphy

As far as women's security is concerned, our government is committed to the cause.

— Rajnath Singh

Nothing penetrates the liberal's sense of moral outrage.

— Bill Whittle

Republican government - self-government by the people - is at the heart of what it means to be free.

— Josh Hawley

People who don't believe in government are likely to defy our government.

— Bill Moyers

Today we can declare: Government is not the problem, and government is not the solution. We, the American people, we are the…

— Bill Clinton

No single piece of macroeconomic advice given by the experts to their government has ever had the results predicted.

— Peter Drucker

It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price,…

— Ronald Reagan

In times of crisis, we are made to feel we should scrutinise our government's actions less closely, when surely that's when we…

— Frankie Boyle

“Couples still indulge in courting rituals, humans still kill humans, and politicians still kiss babies and lie.”

— J.D. Robb

Our government is at its best when we all participate, and I'm on a mission to bring more people to the table.

— Dean Phillips

Bill [Gates] and I believe philanthropy can only be effective if it starts things and proves whether they actually work or not.…

— Melinda Gates

Political life is like a big wheel: constantly turning. At times you are up, at times down. But always, the wheel keeps…

— Ariel Sharon

“The Japanese government actively promoted the repatriation, supposedly on humanitarian grounds. But in my opinion, what they were actually pursuing was opportunism…

— Masaji Ishikawa

The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune. This has been…

— Grover Cleveland

It's tough and it should be tough - it should never be easy to be given millions of pounds to make a…

— Russell T Davies

“In 1951, Air Scoop published a long list of organizations that the government had labeled totalitarian, Communist, or subversive, the clear message…

— Margot Lee Shetterly

If the president is the head of the American body politic, Congress is its gastrointestinal tract. Its vast and convoluted inner workings…

— Jon Stewart

“To narrow natural rights to such neat slogans as "liberty, equality, fraternity" or "life, liberty, property," . . . was to ignore…

— Russell Kirk

If the American government can't stand behind the dollar, the world's benchmark currency, then the global financial system will very likely enter…

— Adam Davidson

Will mankind never learn that policy is not morality,--that it never secures any moral right, but considers merely what is expedient? chooses…

— Henry David Thoreau

Where we are in politics is running down whatever doesn't agree with you.

— Christopher Michael Cillizza

A political place with no power, only influence, is not to my taste.

— Ellen Swallow Richards

Has the luxury of not doing the political stuff, which is really where I want to be as a company.

— Glenn Beck

While democracy must have its organizations and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.

— Charles Evans Hughes

“People who choose to be politicians tend to be people who need constant supervision.”

— Sam Wilson

We can transform the government and the economy, as well as democracy, in Malaysia.

— Najib Razak

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.

— Nikita Khrushchev

“government regulation cannot substitute for individual integrity.”

— Alan Greenspan

The fact is, my friends, most Americans don't want more government. They want less government.

— Mike Huckabee

Liberals measure compassion by counting the number of people receiving government help.

— Rush Limbaugh

In politics, there are no permanent enemies or friends.

— Tamilisai Soundararajan

When people talk about political correctness, the only element of any value is good manners.

— Paul Johnson

The government is slowly waking up to the scale of the personal tragedy of delayed autism diagnosis.

— Jo Cox

“When my time is up,” I would tell friends, “my dance card is going to be full.”

— George W. Bush

“Good corporate governance, it's about being proper and prosper.”

— Toba Beta

Lots of folks are forced to skimp to support a government that won't.

— Winston Churchill