Politics Quotes · Page 302

But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.

— Polly Toynbee

It is not the business of politicians to please everyone.

— Margaret Thatcher

I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement.

— Jose Saramago

Once you accept you're a child in the government nursery, why shouldn't Nanny tell you what to do?

— Mark Steyn

“We need democracy and meritocracy, not mockracy and hypocrisy.”

— TheKeyAuthor

The nuclear weapons were not useful for the achievement of political objectives.

— Henry A. Kissinger

“As long as politicians lack self-restraint, they will print a lot of money at some point.”

— Daniel Pecaut

There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.

— Robert Peel

The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you…

— Chinua Achebe

I entered beauty pageants in much the same spirit most people enter politics - with high ideals and ambitions. Similarly, I had…

— Elizabeth Ray

My father was a Republican and my mother was a Democrat. In Michigan, we always fought about sports, not politics.

— Elissa Slotkin

A lot of people are in politics to make friends, too, instead of making positive change. Theyre worried about getting re-elected.

— Jon Runyan

“In other words, Kant is assuming that since voters are generally reasonable people, they will vote for reasonable governments that will act…

— Mencius Moldbug

To run an effective political party you need a degree of tribalism, it's the glue that holds everyone together.

— Charles Kennedy

We can not continue to allow this over reliance on government to replace the cornerstone institution that has made the American experience…

— Marco Rubio

Americans have always evinced some distrust of government, but the current situation has exacerbated this to a degree that may be unprecedented.

— Eric Alterman

Government is, by its very nature, a destroyer of liberties; the Obama administration, specifically, is promising to interfere with the economy and…

— Thomas Frank

“Those who are to conduct a war cannot in the nature of things, be proper or safe judges, whether a war ought…

— James Madison

Marriage ... has historically been a battlefield, the site of collisions within and between governments and religions over who should regulate it.…

— Evan Wolfson

And as long as America must choose, that long will there be a need and a place for the Democratic Party. We…

— Robert Kennedy

We in the West have arranged our institutions to prevent the concentration of political power. … But we have failed utterly to…

— Matthew Crawford

I do think the public want to see politicians acting in a different way. What's brought young people into our campaign is…

— Jeremy Corbyn

“A regime that can suspend or abrogate the constitution and run the country on its whims and caprice should be ashamed of…

— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

If we love our fellow humans, we cannot limit our insight and our love only to others as individuals...We have to be…

— Erich Fromm

Since the beginning of recorded history, the business of government has been wealth confiscation.

— Ron Holland

Printing money is the last resort of desperate governments when all other policies have failed.

— George Osborne

George W. Bush is evil. He is a terrorist. He is evil. He is arrogant. And he is out of control.

— Julianne Malveaux

Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.

— Anonymous

“What lies ahead seems unlikely; when it becomes the past, it seems inevitable.”

— Rebecca Solnit

Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.

— Joseph Goebbels

Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.

— Alan Bradley

There's no doubt that the Chinese government is waging a full-fledged crackdown on Demosisto.

— Joshua Wong

I celebrate political protest, it is necessary and protected for a reason, but make it good people!

— Lisa Kennedy Montgomery

New Mexicans are ready to take state government right back!

— Michelle Lujan Grisham

In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.

— Joseph Chamberlain

I despise charity. It gives crumbs to a few and silences the others.

— Eve Ensler

Politics didn't lead me to working people. Working people led me into politics.

— Barack Obama

In matters of government, justice means force as well as virtue.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I believe the relationship you have with your government is not so different to a love relationship.

— Jill Scott

If people can't expect their government to be honest and clean, they can't expect anything from it.

— Josh Hawley