Politics Quotes · Page 274

When politicians presume to do God's work, they do not become divine but diabolical.

— Pope Benedict XVI

You can register a political objection in a number of ways.

— Nicholson Baker

The government is neither a monolith nor simply the public interest personified.

— Thomas Sowell

Politicians live in little worlds of their own and imagine they are the universe.

— Michael Foot

Whatever party you're in in America, our troops deserve the full support of our government.

— George W. Bush

Apathy is the slow poison coursing through the body politic that paves the way to tyranny.

— Laurence Overmire

I don't know anything about politics or lobbying in the film world.

— M. Jayachandran

Government can wreck a business by confiscating its money by taxation.

— Owen Paterson

In politics practically everything you hear is scandal, and besides, the funny thing is that the things they are whispering ain't half…

— Will Rogers

Every family in America knows they have to do a budget. Every small business in America knows they have to do a…

— John Boehner

We just want government to be a smart, supportive, reliable partner to the forces that are working for good in this country.

— Van Jones

If there is not competent Opposition, the government that comes to power won't have anyone to hold them accountable.

— Raj Thackeray

But as important as the job to be done by government in the neighborhoods, the people must also be involved.

— Jane Byrne

Refugee problems can only be solved in the region (of origin) - maybe with a little help from the UN. Governments must…

— Yoweri Museveni

The disturbing truth is that there's probably more sincerity than not in American politics. We may not want to believe it, but…

— Jamelle Bouie

In politics, you have to balance these things: what is good for the country, what is available, and what is possible.

— Subramanian Swamy

Politics has come to resemble a cynical team game played by politicians, while the public has been pushed aside as if sitting…

— Edi Rama

In the first rule of politics, you know, Harry Truman, the buck stops here. Take responsibility. What I've learned over the years…

— Susan Estrich

Things like Kitchen Cabinet, I'm not sure they necessarily tell the Australian people whether you have judgement, whether you have discernment, whether…

— Eric Abetz

Populism is at its essence just determined focus on helping people be able to get out of the iron grip of the…

— Jim Hightower

The great virtue of bureaucracy - indeed, perhaps its defining characteristic ~ was that it was an institutional method for applying general…

— Max Weber

Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes…

— Robert A. Heinlein

That's the one thing a politician mustn't have - political opinions or principles. He can have prejudices - indeed he must have…

— Helen McCloy

“He wanted me to understand two big things: First, that nobody, no group, is above others. Public servants are obliged to level…

— Joe Biden

And they can rip ma heart out but still that wont change the dumb ways of nigeria's political game

— Majid Lawal

Some coaches keep quiet about politics to avoid alienating boosters and other higher-ups.

— Steve Kornacki

Dictators free themselves by enslaving others. They work not for your benefit, but their own.

— Charlie Chaplin

I used to talk politics with my father all the time before he passed away.

— Jessica Tarlov

“What is a government but an institutionalized method of making sure somebody else does all the work?”

— Brandon Sanderson

I think that so far the political and economic power of the fossil fuel industry has trumped all else.

— Bill McKibben

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

— George Bernard Shaw

Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext.

— William Hurrell Mallock

The Blair government has lowered the standing of politics and politicians in our country.

— Kenneth Clarke

Poetry was the maiden I loved, but politics was the harridan I married.

— Joseph Howe

The government plans to bring in a new science, technology and innovation policy in 2013.

— Vayalar Ravi

Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns.

— Jeff Goodell

University politics make me long for the simplicity of the Middle East.

— Henry A. Kissinger

People in government and public life are being kicked around at a high rate of speed.

— Arlen Specter

Keralites have become fed up with this kind of politics that creates martyrs.

— Sreenivasan

Government charity gives the most to those who refuse to help themselves; private charity gives less.

— James Cook