Politics Quotes · Page 261

When you start attacking cronyism and peoples political interests, it gets nasty.

— Charles Koch

I am not a politician. I am just a simple person who has come to break down this system.

— Volodymyr Zelensky

“There are no beautiful houses in England now. Only ruins, mental homes, and Government offices.”

— Robert Aickman

“merged all forms of political spending—campaign, lobbying, and philanthropic—”

— Jane Mayer

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

— A. J. Liebling

I think the political class, just overall, has underestimated the suffering in America.

— Nina Turner

The death penalty in the U.S. has become a political tool - and it should never be that.

— Lennie James

I don't want to be involved in any politics. I just want to be a tennis player.

— Aryna Sabalenka

Sometimes people say I'm a political comedian, which, actually I'm not. I'm a comedian who sometimes discusses politics, culture - again, the…

— Janeane Garofalo

Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That's right. Others come in to govern for them.

— Cormac McCarthy

Besides great climates and lovely beaches, California and Greece share a fondness for dysfunctional politics and feckless budgeting.

— James Surowiecki

I am neither Republican nor Democrat. I am a registered independent because I find that I cast my votes not on the…

— Walter Cronkite

We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans. One of…

— Donald Kagan

What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea.…

— David Lloyd George

When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes your heart.

— George W. Bush

I am more interested in the purpose of government than its mechanics-though the means should at least be good enough to lead…

— Aminu Kano

If the politics of inaction and delay that have triumphed in this country continues for another decade, then Planetary Purgatory in the…

— Joseph J. Romm

The initial attraction of a political convention was that often the outcome was not preordained. There was at least some element of…

— Mark McKinnon

Since the beginning of establishment, poets and spoken word artists have always been both vocal supporters and critics of government. And in…

— Malcolm-Jamal Warner

men are not born with a faculty for the universal and ... women are not reduced at birth to the particular. The…

— Monique Wittig

“The increased facilities of communication and exchange of thought, the teachings of history, the unity of government, the rise of literature and…

— Rabindranath Tagore

I very much believe in values-based leadership, and that the values that I believe in and try to govern by are transcendent…

— Deval Patrick

When people abuse these freedoms to enrich themselves at the expense of others, then the public will demand the government to step…

— Ken Blackwell

I was able to excite and engage people who previously hadn't been involved in politics, and part of the reason that I…

— Barack Obama

Whenever you come across a screw-up this big, you know the government is behind it.

— Ann Coulter

Big government doesn't help the middle class, it buries it.

— Marco Rubio

American government was founded on a belief and a faith in God and in doing what is right and just.

— Ginny Brown-Waite

Take the Money and Run? Can Political and Socio-Critical Art ‘Survive’?

— Martha Rosler

All politicians are bores and liars and fakes. I talk to people.

— Martha Gellhorn

At the end of any peace deal, the decision-maker will be the government of Afghanistan.

— Ashraf Ghani

I will walk on no grave of Ulster's honoured dead to do a deal with the IRA or the British government.

— Ian Paisley

I am genuinely not an over-the-top kind of person about politics or anything else.

— Charles Kennedy

The deliberative sense of the community should govern.

— Alexander Hamilton

I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.

— William Tecumseh Sherman

Democrats are the only reason to vote for Republicans

— Will Rogers

Justice in politics has an uncomfortable habit of being rough.

— Robert Rhodes James

The government gave me enough money to go to acting school.

— Tony Curtis

Politicians move when the public requires them to move.

— Carl Hart

Twenty million people are starving. Whatever their politics, they shall be fed!

— Herbert Hoover

Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.

— Elizabeth I