Politics Quotes · Page 265

I will continue to help the political causes I believe in in any way I can.

— Alastair Campbell

People have different views on different situations in politics.

— Mike Evans

Unlike Churchill, I have no plans to shape history. . . . Socrates gave advice

— George H. W. Bush

I come from a very active family politically, especially around union organizing.

— Simone Missick

I mean, I'm somebody who's a total political junkie.

— Leslie Grossman

If you have political convictions... keep 'em to yourself

— Johnny Cash

Every time the U.S. government makes a low-cost loan to someone, it's investing in them.

— Elizabeth Warren

Representative government demands an ongoing conversation between legislators and constituents.

— Alan Siegel

The Government of the United States would be constrained to hold the Imperial German government to a strict accountability for such acts…

— Woodrow Wilson

“In which, if any, of these constitutions do we find the art of ruling being practiced in the actual government of men?…

— Plato

We all joke about Congress but we can't improve on them. Have you noticed that no matter who we elect, he is…

— Will Rogers

“Don't write in to ask whether I would prefer Gingrich to Clinton. Ask, rather, whether Clinton prefers Gingrich to you. Go triangulate…

— Christopher Hitchens

Ignore their heathen prayers and help us blow those little bastards [the Viet Cong] straight to Hell. Amen.

— Hal Moore

“Unless the relationship of law to Christianity is re-established, there is no future except destruction for Western culture.”

— Anonymous

Good, bad or indifferent, I'm transparent with my opinions and what I believe. I just don't think in politics you can be…

— Richard Sherman

Louisiana was as close to South Asia as the United States could get: it had spicy food, humidity, giant cockroaches, and a…

— Sal Khan

When government does, occasionally, work, it works in an elitist fashion. That is, government is most easily manipulated by people who have…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I think that in the West, many citizens, especially younger citizens, take their freedoms and institutions for granted and focus on their…

— Kofi Annan

It is easy to criticize, particularly in a political season. But to lead is something altogether different. The leader must live in…

— Norm Coleman

“Political reform need not go hand in hand with economic liberalisation. I do not believe that if you are libertarian, full of…

— Lee Kuan Yew

DURING THE PAST TWO TO THREE DECADES, we have acquired substantial evidence that most chronic diseases in America can be partially attributed…

— T. Colin Campbell

Since the end of WWII, France's steady movement away from Western ideas of individual liberty and self-determination - and toward collectivist action…

— Charlie Kirk

Government, possessing the power to create and issue currency and credit as money and enjoying the right to withdraw both currency and…

— Abraham Lincoln

These are my politics: to change what we can; to better what we can; but still to bear in mind that man…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

— Vera Brittain

Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.

— Anne O'Hare McCormick

Essentially, filmmakers have to be free and not directed by power or politicians.

— Costa-Gavras

My sensibility has never been political. The things I find funny are generally apolitical.

— Tim Dillon

People in Silicon Valley are starting to realize politics is not a toy.

— Shervin Pishevar

We have a lot of politicians who have really small brains and really big hearts.

— Rand Paul

The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.

— Tacitus

“If you want to get men to act reasonably, you must set about persuading them in a maniacal manner.”

— Aldous Huxley

It's a cowardly form of politics to use my spouse to beat me.

— John Bercow

Constitutional government, as designed by the framers, will survive only with a righteous people.

— Ezra Taft Benson

“Politicians are judged by what they say and they don't do”

— Michelangelo Saez

“the skin of her naked throat was as perfect as a political idea. She”

— William T. Vollmann

You cannot solve the economy in this country by creating government jobs.

— Don Young

I could say much about politics, our only entertainment here, but you would not care a fig about that.

— Thomas Jefferson

“But people were not ideal, and politics had to work with people as they were.”

— Edmund Fawcett

“far too many politicians suffer from foot and mouth disease; they always put a foot in their mouths”

— rassool jibraeel snyman