Politics Quotes · Page 276

It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.

— Michel de Montaigne

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

— Paul Valery

Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can.

— Mark Twain

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.

— Benjamin Disraeli

The task of the government is not only to pour honey into a cup, but sometimes to give bitter medicine.

— Vladimir Putin

The government competes in the private sector the way an alligator competes with a duck.

— Mike Pence

I don't like that politics is associated with middle-aged, greying men.

— Georgia Toffolo

John Boehner chose a huge gavel. I think somebody's compensating for his small government.

— Stephen Colbert

While the U.S. government is unlikely to ever limit the number of football games, plenty of parents are refusing to let their…

— Mary Pilon

There is so much politics and whatever in football and I just can't wait to see the back of it, to be…

— Danny Rose

I wanted to do a political film that is as nonpartisan as can be, because I wanted to do a story that…

— Paul Haggis

A party is the vanguard of a class, and its duty is to lead the masses and not merely to reflect the…

— Vladimir Lenin

Once the government runs out of foreign and private sector bidders for new Treasurys, the Federal Reserve will be the only buyer,…

— Peter Schiff

I'm so bored of tribal politics. That's part of the problem. I'm so bored of it. I'm not a tribalist. That's not…

— David Lammy

So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import…

— Taiye Selasi

“[O]nce demagogy and falsehoods become routine, there isn’t much for the political journalist to do except handicap the race and report on…

— George Packer

Political boundaries in their most physical terms can make or break an election. The manipulation of electoral districts can make them either…

— Susie Dent

If we look at governments around the world, we see that the higher the women's percentage is in parliament, the more funding…

— Swanee Hunt

As a layperson, I consider myself fairly well-educated in terms of politics. My family always has been really interested in politics, and…

— Reid Scott

We profess to be republicans, and yet we neglect the only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government; that…

— Benjamin Rush

“The fallacy that Morley in his life of Gladstone asserts to be the greatest affliction of politicians; it is indeed a common…

— Alfred Korzybski

There ought not be two histories, one of political and moral action and one of political and moral theorizing, because there were…

— Anonymous

In politics as in religion, my tenets are few and simple. The leading one of which, and indeed that which embraces most…

— George Washington

If circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude, that army can never be formidable…

— Alexander Hamilton

Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right?

— William Morley Punshon

I think I can strike a balance in politics and acting.

— Ravi Kishan

Rock n' roll seems to have changed society much more than any politician, I think it really has.

— Roger Daltrey

No vicarious charity can substitute for justice which is due as an obligation and is wrongfully denied.

— Pope Pius XI

“Service is the rent we pay for the life we have been given.”

— Marian Wright Edelman

The political struggle against marriage equality is war

— Pope Francis

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

“...[A] rebel who is inaccurate and mad is a traitor.”

— Rebecca West

Our way of life, our government defines the way America is. I mean, it's not luck.

— Rush Limbaugh

People who never seen to learn claim the government can be made more efficient.

— James Cook

Every single person is political. I am a Left-liberal and my politics is issue-based.

— Aparna Sen

There's a lot of bleeding idiots in t'country and they deserve some representation.

— Bill Stone

As far as ideology or political beliefs are concerned, countries are very different.

— Samuel P. Huntington

What this country needs are more unemployed politicians

— Edward Langley

American politics can produce great men and women, but it is profoundly insular.

— George Packer

There is no political benefit to Trump pretending to have COVID-19.

— Jason Johnson