Politics Quotes · Page 291

Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence.

— Thomas Paine

In highly charged political matters, one person's ambiguity may be another person's truth.

— Richard Mottram

An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.

— Adlai Stevenson I

I ain't never seen no head so level that it could bear the lettin' in of politics.

— Ellen Glasgow

I really don't have tremendous political ambition. I have policy ambition.

— Paul Ryan

Governments must now take a leading role in moving their nations in the right direction.

— Henry W. Kendall

The first black president will be a politician who is black.

— Douglas Wilder

In a parliamentary democracy, it is the job of parliament to decide the law, not the government.

— Angela Rayner

[A]lthough a republican government is slow to move, yet when once in motion, its momentum becomes irresistible.

— Thomas Jefferson

One of my theories about why we've been cranky is Australians have been forced to focus on politics or party politics a…

— Yitzhak Rabin

“Why then should we form our political judgment on the basis of zero investment? We get what we pay for.”

— Timothy Snyder

I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas…

— Ed Gillespie

Government should create the environment and incentives to stimulate investment in sustainable innovation, take away barriers, and accelerate adoption, even in turbulent…

— Frans van Houten

There is in government a living impulse to extend itself indefinitely; and there is in freedom a necessity to resist that impulse.

— Garet Garrett

I have spent my whole life trying to prove that women can get into politics. I'd now say to them, 'For God's…

— Margaret Moran

I think the media loves taking the most absurd clips for a sport that has become congressional politics.

— Kal Penn

In the larger sense, however, the personal ownership of firearms is only secondarily a matter of defense against the criminal. Note the…

— Jeff Cooper

“I think all the politicians in Brazil use God. They always present themselves as the defenders of God. This is because power…

— Mev Puleo

It's not my place to tell you whom to vote for, to take any political stand, to tell you what religion to…

— Pete Sampras

There is also a great deal of behind-the-scenes pressure from political funders too. And by funders I don't just mean the fossil…

— Katharine Hayhoe

It is only when there is the supervision and critical oversight from the people that the government will be in a position…

— Wen Jiabao

In a totalitarian state like North Korea, a group of neighbors gathering once a week to watch the latest episode of a…

— Tom Malinowski

It is the people, and not the judges, who are entitled to say what their constitution means, for the constitution is theirs,…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Being dismantled before our eyes are not just individual programs that politicians cite as too expensive but the whole idea that society…

— Richard Stolley

I do what I do. Barack Obama does what politicians do.

— Jeremiah Wright

I wonder if you are ashamed of calling a Democratically elected government a fascist government.

— Medea Benjamin

Happens I am very political. I have deep political instincts.

— Will Ferrell

Governments keep their promises only when they are forced, or when it is to their advantage to do so.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I started thinking about getting into politics when David Cameron became leader.

— Sam Gyimah

I wanted to be a journalist. I used to write articles at university about politics.

— Ana Patricia Botin

For just experience tells, in every soil, That those who think must govern those who toil

— Oliver Goldsmith

No great advance has been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy.

— Lyman Beecher

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

— Robertson Davies

“I don’t like dirt, because nothing is dirtier. Except politics.
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— Jarod Kintz

I went to college for political science and got a bartending job.

— Jon Taffer

A fundamental premise of politics is we can make this work if people just never figure it out.

— John F. Kerry

Transcend political correctness and strive for human righteousness.

— Anthony J. D'Angelo

There are a lot of good causes out there, but they can't possibly all be served by government.

— Jesse Ventura

Exaggeration is the political pundits' stock in trade: nobody built a loyal readership on equivocation.

— Nick Boles

If you would have the slave show the virtues of the freeman, you must first make him free.

— Henry George