Politics Quotes · Page 278

The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.

— Mitch McConnell

In a democracy, dynasty politics is wrong. We need to free the state and nation from it.

— Narendra Modi

Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.

— Cornel West

A house divided cannot stand for long. That goes for politicians and the rest of us.

— Willie D

I think politicians just need to get out in the real world.

— Grant Shapps

I believe that it is an unchanging value of democracy that ends cannot justify the means in politics.

— Park Geun-hye

I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver...

— Herman Cain

Keep government out of the money of the people, schools of the people, and will of the people.

— Ted Cruz

But now we got weapons Of the chemical dust If fire them we're forced to Then fire them we must One push…

— Bob Dylan

As the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, I see on a daily basis the impact of politics and policy on my family,…

— Pete Buttigieg

The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.

— John Stuart Mill

My nightmare scenario is that the government saves Citibank once again, as well as the other banks, and business resumes as usual.…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The government argues that First Amendment rights are outweighed by the need to prosecute those who transmit classified information and documents.

— Noam Chomsky

In the coming decades, questions of identity, meaning cultural heritage, language, and religion will play a central role in politics.

— Samuel P. Huntington

The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.

— Ludwig von Mises

Pluralism has been the driving fact behind political theory now since the Copernican revolution and the wars of religion that were spawned…

— Barry Gardiner

There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a…

— Bill Bryson

“It seems that every time President Trumps government undoes an environmental regulation that the stock market goes to record highs. Another way…

— Steven Magee

Actually, the notion of what is acceptable for a moral government to do seems to have eroded in some ways since 9-11.…

— Gail Simone

I have a wealth of experience, not only as a senior executive in different departments in the city, but I've also, in…

— Lori Lightfoot

Beware leverage in all its forms. Borrowers - individual, corporate, or government - should always match fund their liabilities against the duration…

— Seth Klarman

If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it…

— Meg Greenfield

We are a nation of United States - a constitutional republic made up of individually governed states empowering three equal branches of…

— Phil Scott

I've always been in a position where I had to run against the establishment. It gives me some independence to focus on…

— Tom Suozzi

In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The opposing party rarely causes so much angst as does one's own.

— Dick Morris

When I was on the London assembly it was quite common for government ministers to refuse to appear.

— James Cleverly

[Donald] Trump is still Trump, and that means he says things that politicians just don't say.

— Don Gonyea

There is no visible sign that the current politicians in the US are willing to see the need for change.

— David Korten

Controversy sells, politics sell, all that type of stuff sells.

— Jadakiss

There is no such thing as gratitude in international politics.

— Arnold J. Toynbee

I do not intend to join the NDA. I just want the country to get a stable government.

— Raj Thackeray

Milosevic was an outstanding politician who gave his all to serving his fatherland.

— Alexander Lukashenko

While I am reluctant to cite sexism as a political issue, sexism certainly can exist.

— Michele Bachmann

They spent the night in jail, where their progressive views on gay marriage served them well.

— Ann Coulter

No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.

— Damian Lewis

He was a power politically for years, but he never got prominent enough t'have his speeches garbled

— Kin Hubbard

There are no more slow weeks. I realized this about 3 years ago. Downtime in politics isn't a thing.

— Christopher Michael Cillizza

I'm such a sap for democracy and politics that I get weepy when I see anybody voting.

— Tucker Carlson

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

— Edmund Burke