Politics Quotes · Page 245

“Change was, indeed, possible, one person at a time.”

— Mark M. Bello

How can the life of such a man be in the palm of some fools hand?

— Bob Dylan

When Colin Kaepernick refuses to stand for the anthem, that's both a sports story and a politics story.

— S.E. Cupp

Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket.

— Bill Moyers

Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.

— Winston Churchill

Government doesn't have a high tolerance for failure.

— John Hickenlooper

I'm asking the American people to rise above the noise and the clutter of our broken politics.

— Donald Trump

The only true resistance to this Government... [is] to cease to co-operate with it.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Lowering the middle-class tax rate... will likely lower work efforts and increase government dependence.

— Edward Conard

If politicians did care about their constituents, they would work harder to seek out people like me. They don't.

— Carl Hart

I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was…

— Helmut Newton

“Politics is a matter of desires and personal feelings or emotions, only parliament tries to bring reason into the state.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

Politicians... say what they say - you might get every now and again a genuine one, innit? But I think people, like,…

— Dizzee Rascal

I don't want to talk politics, but what I do say is I believe in rules and laws, and if you come…

— Mo Farah

Every politician in the world is all for revolution, reason, and disarmament-but only in enemy countries, not in his own.

— Hermann Hesse

The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.

— George Mason

“Now, for the first time, the President began to look genuinely powerful, even dangerous. This was a classic political coalition: it had…

— Bruce Sterling

Espionage is never a laughing matter. And in fact, this is not a political issue. I don't want to get this confused…

— Robby Mook

What kind of expression is this - "punishing Israel"? Are we a vassal state of yours? Are we a banana republic? Are…

— Menachem Begin

Look, I don't mind if the President sends a budget which he knows is not going to achieve anything. But when he…

— Charles Krauthammer

“Once there was a dictator. He drove millions to various kinds of deaths, by war, in prison, or simply in harsh deserts…

— Geoff Ryman

I said that if I hadn't been a politician, I'd have liked to be a barrister, or an academic. My beloved wife…

— John Bercow

“So, when free-market economists say that a certain regulation should not be introduced because it would restrict the ‘freedom’ of a certain…

— Ha-Joon Chang

The enactment of the Homestead Act would create the strongest tie between the citizen and the Government-he would with cheerfulness contribute his…

— Andrew Johnson

The Government made by a number of Sovereign States.

— Roger Sherman

There are many incidents in which I have seen and experienced cheap politics.

— P. T. Usha

It's always great to have an enemy in politics; there's no question about that.

— Daniel Pfeiffer

“Only priests and politicians benefit from a people's ignorance.”

— Ki Longfellow

“Intelligence is power; it is the flame behind the spark of intrigue”

— Tobsha Learner

I wasn't from a political family. Nobody talked politics.

— Ken Loach

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

— Will Rogers

The government has no money of its own. It's all your money.

— Margaret Thatcher

I think for technology and innovation we have to ignore politics.

— Ron Conway

All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

— I. F. Stone

Some politicians like to kiss babies. I like to kiss the baby's mommas.

— Edwin Edwards

To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.

— Simone de Beauvoir

War is far worse. At least where politics is going on, there are usually nice hors d’oeuvres.

— Brandon Sanderson

Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings.

— Bob Dylan

I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.

— James A. Garfield

Marriage equality is not an issue of politics: it is an issue of justice achieved by political means.

— Andy Dunn