Politics Quotes · Page 292

“There are pockets of wealth in this country. Mostly those pockets are in the politicians’ pants.”

— Jarod Kintz

The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Political doesn't necessarily mean you have an agenda.

— Toni Morrison

Politics is not how you vote, it is how you live. It is not how you choose, but how you think.

— Nancy Fox

But thanks to my invention, my capitalist friends and I were able to bring the government to its knees.

— Erno Rubik

You deserve whoever governs you ... Everyone is responsible for the actions of their leaders.

— Greg Bear

Now you have to be a collaborator and you have to bring on governments and convince people.

— Bill Gates

We've always tried to run a transparent and honest government.

— Naveen Patnaik

Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a…

— Kenneth Koch

“Fookin' Irish, they're a race of political masochists, they love their fookin' chiefs and princes an' a strong hand belting. It's like…

— Gwyneth Jones

For members who have only ever been in government, the negativity and aggressiveness of the opposition is easy to caricature.

— Jason Kenney

No one in government should ever think that the citizens they work for can't or won't scrutinize their actions

— Roy Barnes

The liberal understanding of 'the separation of church and state' means that as the area of politics expands, the area of private…

— Joseph Sobran

In the appointments to the great offices of the government, my aim has been to combine geographical situation, and sometimes other considerations,…

— George Washington

The federal government has no business in restricting basic human rights based on sexual orientation, and I am ready to protect equality…

— Katie Hill

So I think we're, we're, we're as broad a political party, if not broader than the Democratic Party, just in a different…

— Rudy Giuliani

A contract for the establishment of government, being nothing but a voluntary contract between individuals for their mutual benefit, differs, in nothing…

— Lysander Spooner

Whenever any form of government shall become destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alteror to abolish…

— Anonymous

If we resort for a criterion to the different principles on which different forms of government are established, we may define a…

— James Madison

What we need is a political and joyous alternative to the behaviorist discourse, the Christian discourse on evil or sin, and the…

— Judith Butler

Our popular government has often been called an experiment. Two points in it our people have already settled, the successful establishing and…

— Abraham Lincoln

While restoring a sense of fiscal discipline to Congress is a top priority, infrastructure spending is an important and necessary task of…

— Cynthia Lummis

“Politics is an extension of war by other means. Arguments are soldiers. Once you know which side you're on, you must support…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

We are being Americans when we hold our government to account. We are being false to our troops when we send them…

— John F. Kerry

It is like we are obliged to assume that the government is only doing what it says it is doing.

— James Bovard

Poor Al Gore. Global warming completely debunked via the very internet you invented.

— Jon Stewart

Iraq has lost 5 percent of its population, a number that in the U.S. would equal 14 million people.

— Mick Jagger

Let's agree, right here, right now, to keep the peoples government open and pay our bills on time.

— Barack Obama

I'm a theological writer mistaken for a political writer. My theme is grace versus karma.

— Luis Alberto Urrea

Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.

— Jasper Fforde

All governments must maintain power through consent, not coercion.

— Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

The BJP has never considered its political opponents as enemies.

— Yogi Adityanath

An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.

— James Dean

It's time for the government to scale back, not for people of faith to scale back!

— Mike Huckabee

“The House of Saud had executed Juhayman. Now they were making his program government policy.”

— Robert Lacey

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

— Frank Herbert

Do not elicit your child's political opinions. He doesn't know any more than you do.

— Fran Lebowitz

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Government seems to me to be a part of religion itself - a thing sacred in its institutions and ends.

— William Penn

Leadership is the art of controlling while politics is the art of influencing.

— Lameck K Kosgei