Politics Quotes · Page 284

When we talk politics, we moralize. When we talk morality, we politicize.

— Ravi Zacharias

For a politician, the long term is between now and the next election.

— Edgar Fiedler

I'm not a sociologist, I'm not a political scientist, but I'm a fairly intuitive person.

— Anthony Scaramucci

Politicians can't be expected to answer for the actions of their relatives.

— Wes Streeting

Let's get government support for farmers to make the transition to organic.

— Kimbal Musk

I would be an activist but never a politician. As an activist, nobody owns you.

— Sinbad

“In politics, the things that do not happen are frequently as significant as those that do.”

— Theodore H. White

The Constitution is like my old blue dress ... it doesn't fit anymore.

— Ellen Tauscher

He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in…

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

...free enterprise, [is] a term that refers, in practice, to a system of public subsidy and private profit, with massive government intervention…

— Noam Chomsky

And once again the government has failed to get the kind of cooperation from the relatives that might allow the case of…

— Peter Jennings

One of the problems of the future world will be the use of leisure time. How will it be filled up? Maybe…

— Michelangelo Antonioni

I think there is a scientific approach to it and there is a political approach to it and an economical approach to…

— Veronika Varekova

“But I had little knowledge of Marxism, and in political discussions with my communist friends I found myself handicapped by my ignorance…

— Nelson Mandela

“plots for the destruction of the United States government. "A desperate turn towards evil had come," she wrote, after hearing her brother…

— Jane Singer

“He’s always complaining about the fucking recession and how the government is working against people like him. He calls himself working class,…

— Ida Løkås

“It may be easy with the retrospect of history to see how bad the Nazis were. But to grow up in the…

— Rudi Wobbe

“Americans now considered the danger of surveillance of greater concern than the danger of terrorism: Overall, 47% say their greater concern about…

— Glenn Greenwald

I never thought I'd see the day when the U.S. government could listen in on phone conversations or read private mail without…

— Chellie Pingree

You can be outraged by what the Koch brothers do with their money in politics and you can appreciate what they contribute…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

Property should be in a general sense common, but as a general rule private... In well-ordered states, although every man has his…

— Aristotle

The only reason to be in politics is public service. There's no other reason. Frankly, if that's the best job you can…

— Malcolm Turnbull

“I think government starts civilization not writing. In fact why did writing happen in the first place? What happened was bureaucrats were…

— Roy Casagranda

Tracing the progress of mankind in the ascending path of civilization, and moral and intellectual culture, our fathers found that the divine…

— William M. Evarts

Politics is my second love, next to my love for Raisa [Gorbacheva].

— Mikhail Gorbachev

“Corporate controlled governments are the enemy of the future generations.”

— Steven Magee

In politics it is necessary to take nothing tragically and everything seriously.

— Anonymous

If politics is the art of the possible, theatre is the art of the impossible.

— Herbert Blau

Everybody has to remember that economics is very tied to politics.

— Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada

Hating politics was like hating the weather. Pointless, since both were inevitable.

— Eileen Wilks

Wake up and smell the facism; The biggests terrorists are not on the streets they are in Government.

— Wandini

To those who have being stealing government money, it has to come to an end.

— Cyril Ramaphosa

Brexit has divided the country. It has divided political parties. And it has divided families too.

— Jo Johnson

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

— Herbert Hoover

If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.

— Nicolas Chamfort

Political science without biography is a form of taxidermy.

— Harold Lasswell

“Yeah,” Robertson nodded grimly. “It’s the whole problem, isn’t it? People just doing their jobs.”

— Krzysztof Pacyński

We need to deliver efficient, transparent government.

— Nina Turner

My political giving has merely followed my relationships.

— David Jolly

There is no constitutional basis for the federal government to be mandated to assist with student debt.

— Darryl Glenn