Politics Quotes · Page 286

I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.

— Robert Harris

“Trust a politician? I would rather staple gun my nuts to the back of a charging rhino.”

— Steve Merrick

In today's world everything is political. We are a statement - our clothes, haircut, the way we act.

— Olga Tokarczuk

Seek ye first the political kingdom and all other else will be added unto it.

— Kwame Nkrumah

“The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small”

— Henry Kissinger

“Democracy is a most accommodating and charming form of government, full of variety and diversity,”

— William De Witt Hyde

Remember, success for a politician is 50% plus one. You don't have to have everybody on board.

— Dick Cheney

Memory is a political act. Forgetfulness is the handmaiden of tyranny.

— James Carroll

These days, government employees are better off in almost every area: pay, benefits, time off, and security, on top of working fewer…

— Mortimer Zuckerman

I think everything has some politics to it. It's just whether or not it admits to it. Politics is weird. I don't…

— John Cusack

The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in government than in politics.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

I think we have a political and moral duty to do everything within our power to maintain the Good Friday Agreement.

— Frans Timmermans

For too long, we've attached some mythic notion to government solutions, and yet, 40 years after we began the War on Poverty,…

— Rand Paul

We cannot ever accept a government that thinks they can get away with tiny targets on climate which they then don't achieve.

— Elizabeth May

It's interesting how identity politics and Ann Coulter-style tactics have now blossomed. But they were always there in CPAC.

— Mark Shields

“The prime minister had abused his position as minister in charge of the SIS to embarrass another politician only months before an…

— Nicky Hager

There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government, and serve to keep…

— George Washington

'These boat people,' says the government of Hong Kong, 'they all want to go to America.' Well, I swear I don't know…

— Linda Ellerbee

If our government has a policy, any political subdivision, that limits or restricts the enforcement of our immigration laws, we will sue…

— Russell Pearce

A common rhetorical strategy of politicians and others is to frame their opponents' views in the worst possible light, tacitly suggesting that…

— Dale Jamieson

I think that if the political and social movement groups and organizations that operate in this country today had the same kind…

— John Trudell

Unfortunately, my rivals are spreading all kinds of suspicions for political reasons that are absolutely not true. They've tried accusing me of…

— Juan Manuel Santos

Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn't been a satirist or a political satirist who's done that. So, that really was…

— Al Franken

I am politically incorrect, that's true. Political correctness to me is just intellectual terrorism. I find that really scary, and I won't…

— Mel Gibson

No one can be considered untouchable on political grounds.

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

The folks you help won't remember it and the folks you hurt won't ever forget it.

— Bill W. Clayton

I think politics in general are just like a popularity contest but McCain is just... old.

— D. L. Hughley

“I believe the term is ‘eminent domain.’ Ah, yes. That means ‘theft by the government,”

— Terry Pratchett

I don't ever want to play the part of a statistic on a government chart.

— The Police

A thoughtful and well-informed consideration of US government in relation to American society.

— Ian Harris

You can provide better services for less if you get the federal government out of the way.

— Mick Mulvaney

For most of my life, I've considered myself a political centrist.

— Mark McKinnon

Just because you are not interested in politics, does not mean that politics is not interested in you.

— Pericles

The men who could not fight, in a war that didn't seem right. You let them come home, America.

— Waylon Jennings

“War is a convenient fix for government problems if it happens somewhere else. To other people.”

— Sherwood Smith

When government does its job properly people are free to do theirs.

— Margaret Thatcher

We are soldiers of the cross, we've been found to reach the lost.

— Randy Travis

If there is not justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government.

— Emiliano Zapata

“Being absolute, and maintained by police force, a Government monopoly need not please its customers.”

— Rose Wilder Lane

A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted-in the air.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt