Politics Quotes · Page 300

“is like asking a politician to achieve high office without the benefit of bribes or patronage.”

— Susanna Clarke

To be in the media is to be in the wings. Being in politics is being on the stage.

— Michael Portillo

Return to the fundamentals of politics - sell our story door to door.

— Richard J. Daley

The people who run the giant companies and the government are all part of the same crowd.

— Fiona Hill

I can get into politics. I'm a pretty straight guy for this business. I have a pretty healthy outlook.

— Rex Smith

If Democrats don't want the government to shut down, support border security. It's that simple.

— Stephen Miller

When I'm finished with politics, I'll have a richer life. I'd like to go to the theatre.

— Nigel Farage

The Government and the police are only able to do their jobs with the consent of the people.

— Julia Hartley-Brewer

I know other astronauts share my feelings… And we know the government is sitting on hard evidence of UFOs.

— Gordon Cooper

We intend to lead a government of purpose and direction so that we can offer the people of this nation the opportunity…

— Alex Salmond

America's founders knew the importance of allowing the people to speak critically about government actions.

— Mark Meadows

If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in…

— John F. Kennedy

I can describe, and I've always been able to describe, what Republicans stand for in eight words, and the eight words are…

— Byron Dorgan

The public interest requires doing today those things that men of intelligence and good will would wish, five or ten years hence,…

— Edmund Burke

Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“General assumptions often lead to erroneous conclusions, but one cannot go far wrong in always assuming that whatever one's government is saying…

— Michel Templet

Elections do have consequences, and those we elect and far too often re-elect have forgotten how government works and for whom they…

— David Pratt

'Chinese Democracy' wasn't trying to tell China to have a democracy or anything like that. I don't have an opinion on what…

— Axl Rose

“Politics of Friendship is, in other words, only a book between covers. For the real text, you must enter the classroom, put…

— Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

First, the federal government, one of the fundamental responsibilities that it has is to protect the nation's health and wellbeing. And this…

— Marco Rubio

Growing up, politics never trickled down to the areas we come from. But people from Obama's camp, and Obama himself, reached out…

— Jay-Z

In terms of activism, the Trump-era transformation of news into entertainment has had a deep effect on the way that collegiate politics…

— Vanessa Grigoriadis

Whether it is access to voting rights, representation in government, or the outsized influence of money in our political system, the opportunity…

— Nina Turner

There were many generations of Latino people coming to this country, coming from difficult political or social situations in their own countries,…

— Antonio Banderas

Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.

— Benjamin Whichcote

The lifespan of faith and culture is much more than the ones who play politics in its name.

— Ravish Kumar

Not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysicks, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetorick, or Logick.

— Robert Hooke

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size.

— Ronald Reagan

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.

— Lady Bird Johnson

Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.

— Thomas Jefferson

Never did a government commence under auspices so favorable, nor ever was success so complete.

— James Monroe

We cannot have foreign governments interceding in our elections.

— Robby Mook

I can talk a lot and not reveal anything; I would make a great politician.

— Imelda May

I said to myself, "If the government thinks I'm an artist, I must be one."

— Glenn Ligon

What other form of government, indeed, can so well deserve our esteem and love?

— John Adams

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

— H. L. Mencken

I think about politics, so it would be inauthentic not to talk about it.

— Lauren Mayberry

The federal government should never be in the business of politically manufacturing biological science.

— Byron Donalds

All political parties, if they are to be successful, have to be broad churches.

— Dominic Grieve

The Citizens United decision dramatically intensified the political gridlock in our country.

— Patrick Murphy