Politics Quotes · Page 306

The UN could help the Iraqi government get on its feet and help the United States withdraw a bit more.

— Brent Scowcroft

Imagine what things would be like if the news media actually sided with civilization.

— Glenn Reynolds

It's not healthy for a society if the people hate their own government.

— Garry Wills

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

— Harry S Truman

Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.

— Colin Powell

There is no monopoly on common sense on either side of the political fence.

— Sting

This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments.

— Jacques Delors

I wonder if politicians know less about the land, now that they campaign by air.

— Andre Dubus

None of us have to settle for the best this administration offers - a dull, adventureless journey from one entitlement to the…

— Paul Ryan

“People tend to form political beliefs in their early years and then stick with them for life. If today’s rich young are…

— Edward Luce

Let's say there are 500 sons and daughters like you in each state. Then we could control the government.

— Sun Myung Moon

As I get older ... I become more convinced that good government is not a substitute for self-government.

— Dwight Morrow

You need to have good people: honourable, capable, committed in politics, standing in public office. It's not a guarantee, but it's the…

— Lee Hsien Loong

Invite politicians to dinner and let them tell the world how delicious it is. . . . They will proudly go around…

— Kofi Annan

[It's] difficult to engage people in politics when they believe that what really matters is where they personally stand.

— Ivan Krastev

If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think…

— Edmund Burke

Too many people are surfing the web and trying to figure out the politics of getting a movie made or taking meetings…

— Scot Armstrong

I write about misuses of evidence in plenty of different spheres: scaremongering journalists, obvious quacks and naturopaths, and flaws in the way…

— Ben Goldacre

We have revenue coming in. We can pay our interest payments. And then we can prioritize what government programs that have been…

— Todd Rokita

I think we've lost the idea that politicians are part of the humanities. And we think of them as part of a…

— Martha Nussbaum

People often say, with pride, 'I'm not interested in politics.' They might as well say, 'I'm not interested in my standard of…

— Martha Gellhorn

“When governments control everything, your perceived or glorified wealth is just an illusion. Attaining true generational wealth requires working rules of law,…

— Olawale Daniel

Whoever the kid had been, whoever had had the grand attitude, has finally heeded the admonishment of parents, teachers, governments, religions, and…

— William Saroyan

“As anywhere else, political instability provided an opportunity for local scores to be settled, for personal grievances to be aired, for heroes…

— Charles Emmerson

I know the good from the bad, also the in-between, but I was never political.

— Luise Rainer

Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.

— Jane Rule

Life can make you or it can break you. But the good part is you can choose to allow it.

— Serenity C

I actually think it's very important that the Navy SEAL community stay out of politics.

— Eric Greitens

“The general ethos of the people they have to govern determines the behaviour of politicians.”

— T.S. Eliot

I don't have to experience tragedy to understand it.

— Dan Quayle

“In politics, when reason and emotion collide, emotion invariably wins”

— Drew Westen

I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance.

— Wangari Maathai

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.

— Groucho Marx

“To really change the world, we have to help people change the way they see things.”

— Suzy Kassem

A government can't cut its way out of a recession any more than you can dig yourself out of a hole.

— Caroline Lucas

I was a political junkie from an early age; I got a front row seat on something I love to do.

— Sarah Huckabee Sanders

“As long as people believe in government, wars will never end.”

— Larken Rose

Anything the government gives you is just another link in the chains that destroy your liberty.

— Alan Keyes

What typically happens in government is the exact opposite of how things should work.

— Steve Hilton

Only as strong as our love for this land, only as tall as we stand.

— Phil Ochs