Politics Quotes · Page 304

The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.

— Barry Goldwater

More government control of doctors and their reimbursement schemes will only create more problems.

— Scott Gottlieb

The federal government should only be flying the flag that represents all people, the American flag.

— Marjorie Taylor Greene

Political parties are complicated coalitions and aren't excessively theoretical.

— William Kristol

The essence of government is force, and most often that force is used to accomplish evil ends.

— Walter E. Williams

“If we can't say what we think under our roof, then we have no roof.”

— André Aciman

Governments lie; bankers lie; even auditors sometimes lie: gold tells the truth.

— William Rees-Mogg

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

— Wendell Phillips

There's a political party in America that has an almost fanatical opposition to even the most minimal standards of gun safety -…

— Ritchie Torres

“For political matters Kennedy relied heavily on able strategists—critics called them the Irish Mafia—such as Kenneth O'Donnell and Lawrence O'Brien.”

— James T. Patterson

This is for one simple reason: each Islamic mosque is dedicated to the overthrow of the American government.

— Bryan Fischer

[the framers of the Constitution] intended our government should be a republic, which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy…

— Fisher Ames

The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout…

— Anonymous

Politicians get their power too late, and I think that he has inherited an impossible situation in which he is ill-equipped to…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

For Russia, there is not and there may not be another political option but democracy. However, Russian democracy is... not at all…

— Vladimir Putin

Any suggestion that I'm writing about political operatives because I'm interested in political operatives misses the entire point.

— Bob Woodward

Whenever you show up on a set where you haven't been from the beginning - at least myself - I'm kind of…

— Walton Goggins

As a businessperson, I dont have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of the political leaders. However,…

— Tadashi Yanai

Our domestic problems are for the most part economic. We have our enormous debt to pay, and we are paying it. We…

— Calvin Coolidge

“She knew well the history of which they spoke because her father had been a part of it. When the military overseers…

— Amy Waldman

I have spent seven of the 12 years I have been married a victim of political persecution. I must be the first…

— Asif Ali Zardari

Without the principle of private property there would be no reason for government, which is necessary solely for the purpose of keeping…

— Ricardo Flores Magon

From a business perspective, we are trying to propose some suggestions to the government. Not only to benefit Fosun, but to benefit…

— Guo Guangchang

In government, I'm a strong believer in the need for reform of government agencies and departments. They - they have gotten fat…

— Robert M. Gates

History furnishes to politics all the arguments that it needs, for the chosen cause.

— Romain Rolland

Breastroke is an athletic event, butterfly is a political statement.

— Paul Tsongas

One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Common sense is not an issue in politics--it's an affliction.

— Will Rogers

I personally do not believe in politics, hatred, or anger in my musical composition.

— Horace Silver

We must save the Constitution from the [Supreme] Court and the Court from itself.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

It's a rarity when someone takes a political risk in Washington today in the public interest.

— Arlen Specter

India has never played politics with national security.

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

In Europe public men do resign. But here it's a lost art. You have to impeach 'em.

— Will Rogers

A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.

— William Randolph Hearst

The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.

— Stanley Baldwin

I don't know people who don't say, boy the government is working better now,

— Andrew Cuomo

If I was a political mercenary, I would be using my talents in another line of work.

— David Brock

This is politics. People in power never have to play by the same rules.

— Richelle Mead

Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny precisely because its principles are the founding principles.

— Mark Levin

Undermining the rule of law is an assault on the government of the United States.

— Heather Cox Richardson