Politics Quotes · Page 293

Government exists only for the good of the governed.

— Pythagoras

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

— Wendell Phillips

Politicians are no different than the rest of the public.

— Scott McCallum

I want people to understand the barriers to serious government in order that more people take action.

— Dominic Cummings

We have to end political gerrymandering in this country. We have to end it.

— Michael Bennet

I'm not a professional politician, I'm a problem solver.

— Carly Fiorina

I hate government. I'm apolitical. Write that down. I'm not a Republican.

— Bruce Willis

My passion in life isn't politics. It truly is connecting to people and women.

— Iliza Shlesinger

[T]he people as ultimate sovereigns, retain the ultimate power - and even the duty - to overthrow any government that fails to…

— Glenn Reynolds

A psychopath can tell what you're thinking but what they don't do is feel what you feel. These are people without a…

— Robert D. Hare

In a federal structure such as ours, state governments are imperative for the smooth functioning of our overall polity. They can't just…

— Pinarayi Vijayan

All things being equal, letting people make decisions for themselves will produce smarter outcomes, collectively, than relying on government planners.

— James Surowiecki

When we organize with one another, when we get involved, when we stand up and speak out together, we can create a…

— Howard Zinn

Finding voice is a socially responsible political act. We don't just do it for ourselves. And helping someone to find voice demands…

— Mary Rose O'Reilley

The one thing politicians will always vote for is more politics, so in 2000 they invented the post of mayor of London…

— A. A. Gill

I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics. So forgive me. But I am passionate about this country. I am equally…

— Simon Cowell

“Americans by the very nature of the soft fat they collected around their brains along with all of their comforts, their total…

— Helen MacInnes

Let us admit that most of us writers feel an essential aversion to politics. By taking such a position, however, we accept…

— Vaclav Havel

What I'm doing is exploring things. This is why I'm a fiction writer rather than an essayist or a politician or whatever.…

— T.C. Boyle

A doctor can only treat patients. A doctor can only help the people who are shot or who are injured. But a…

— Malala Yousafzai

If globalization is to realise its potential as a force for good, we have to look more closely at the means by…

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

At first view it might seem not to square with the republican theory, to suppose either that a majority have not the…

— James Madison

It's very difficult, historically, to define what an elite is. But whatever it is, people are very angry at that idea, I…

— Victor Davis Hanson

I don't know if I even consider myself a very political person. I have always had strong beliefs on important social issues.…

— Kenneth Cole

“If someone lies about little things, that should be your first clue!”

— D William Manley

Artists aren't role models. If you want to do that, go into politics.

— Ken Jeong

I have been called a great many things in my time – that's politics.

— Nigel Farage

“If Santa Claus was a politician, he would only put billboards promising the best Christmas presents.”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.

— Anonymous

The first duty of a government is to give education to the people.

— Simon Bolivar

If the old dog hadn't got distracted by the fire plug, he would have caught the rabbit.

— Hayes McClerkin

The federal government is our servant, not our master.

— Thomas Jefferson

Governments have their origin in the moral identity of men.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Of course a politician's promise isn't worth the paper it's written on.

— Russell Pearce

The central issue of poetry as of politics is the destiny of the human personality.

— Martin Carter

The only way we are held accountable is if people know what government is doing.

— Ted Wheeler

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

— Margaret Thatcher

The left loves the courts. They hate constitutional limited government.

— Dan Bongino

Government . . . is a reflection of us. It is up to us to earn a better reflection.

— Andrew Horning

Either we pay the government's bills, or we leave them for our kids to pay. It's that simple.

— Laurence Kotlikoff