Politics Quotes · Page 283

Government influences your life every day. If there's a war, they're not drafting guys my age.

— Mike Quigley

Politics is the art of making the people believe that they are in power, when in fact, they have none.

— Mumia Abu-Jamal

Politics has become beyond acceptable when it comes to humanity. People are just frozen in falsehood.

— Richard Dreyfuss

To end cronyism we must end government's ability to dole out favors and rig the market.

— Charles Koch

Politicians can and should be held accountable for their choices.

— Shaun King

When people don't like my politics, I am happy to have a political discussion with them.

— Meghan McCain

If we have any problems, it's always with the government of the United States.

— Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

I think it's weird that people think someone who's not a politician could be the mayor of Chicago.

— Eric Zorn

I'm in England so often I haven't really left, but Americans aren't at all like they're misrepresented through their politicians.

— John Lydon

Most governments are designed to protect the government from the people, whereas the United States government was organized to protect the people…

— Jeff Cooper

Fighting for tenants' rights has never been about political posturing for me. It's very personal. It's why I fight for everyone who's…

— London Breed

For us, the government of Venezuelan Nicolas Maduro is not a government that allows democratic plurality. It does not allow for there…

— Nayib Bukele

When politics and home life have become one and the same thing, [...] then,[...] it is evident that we will be in…

— Leo Tolstoy

Make no mistake - Putin and his gang of oligarchs pose a real threat to democratic governments, including ours.

— Tom Suozzi

“The difference between politics and religion is that the first makes it legal to hate, and makes the love of the second…

— Rebecca McKinsey

Politicians who lack the vision to lead the community on big issues like public transport often hide their inaction by blaming other…

— Anthony Albanese

But look what happens when the government gives you rights. When the government gives you rights, unlike when God gives you rights,…

— Rick Santorum

Governments don't get elected saying, 'We're going to lower GDP next year,' governments get elected on saying, 'We're going to increase prosperity…

— James Righton

I think in those countries, including my own in India, where I think primary education has been badly neglected by successive governments,…

— Amartya Sen

I think abortion's wrong, but it's none of my business to tell somebody what's wrong, he said. So I'm pro-choice. I want…

— Dennis Miller

All political action aims at either preservation or change. When desiring to preserve, we wish to prevent a change for the worse;…

— Leo Strauss

Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between…

— George Will

From my experience let me say this: in today's world it is no bad thing for a politician to have had the…

— Margaret Thatcher

Who can dispute that the governments of the United States constitute the most voracious tax system in the history of mankind? In…

— Robert Higgs

Political matters are developing so fast that we must not let a single thing slip without use.

— Victoria Woodhull

“True power lies not in the spotlight, but in the influential shadows.”

— J.Adam Snyder

I don't follow politics; it doesn't interest me. So why should I vote?

— Mario Balotelli

The worst thing in the world, next to anarchy, is government.

— Henry Ward Beecher

The five million people who watch cable news are the political nation, the people who really care.

— David Frum

It's almost like, I am political, without asking to be political.

— Rose Ayling-Ellis

I am an Orangeman first and a politician and member of this parliament [Stormont] afterwards.

— William Lane Craig

“Socialism always produces evil results, no matter one's intentions.”

— Dave Champion

Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?

— Pat Robertson

The first was a government of priestcraft, the second of conquerors, and the third of reason.

— Thomas Paine

“You can call anyone you want a traitor as long as you're the one holding the pen.”

— Nihad Sirees

“One thing I love about politicians; they won't allow the truth to be obscured by a bunch of facts.”

— Quentin R. Bufogle

Unity and secularism will be the motto of the government. We can't afford divisive polity in India.

— Manmohan Singh

I don't hide behind the I'm not political stuff. I'm not political!

— Jelly Roll

Big Business and Politics are twins, they are the monsters who kill everything, corrupt everything.

— Anais Nin

There is nothing so deep and nothing so shallow which political enmity will not turn to account.

— John Quincy Adams