Politics Quotes · Page 309

People in Oklahoma don't wake up every morning wondering what the government is going to do for them.

— Mick Cornett

I would with such perfection govern, sir, T'excel the golden age.

— William Shakespeare

I'll remind you all, however, that for government, existence is a privilege, not a right.

— L. Neil Smith

For Obama, 'rule of law' is merely his political silly-putty.

— Wayne LaPierre

Democracy is not a form of government, but a form of social organisation.

— B. R. Ambedkar

It desirable to add one or two facts bearing on the domestic political aspects of the problem.

— Dillon Anderson

“Take away America's money, and you've got a country of tribes.”

— Bruce Sterling

Fannie and Freddie are creations of government. They were given a huge leg up over their competitors.

— Nancy Pfotenhauer

Taxation is, in fact, the most difficult function of government and that against which their citizens are most apt to be refractory.

— Thomas Jefferson

The Chinese government promised Hong Kong '50 years, and change.' And 50 years later, after 1997, will be 2046; I think, 'Well,…

— Wong Kar-wai

The federal government should not be able to hide behind sovereign immunity when the facts don't meet the protections.

— Scott Pruitt

America is not divided, our enemies they will be stopped. Cause we the people are united, and still one nation under God.

— Randy Travis

We've seen the government give out subsidies to companies, those companies turn around and use it for executive bonuses.

— Andrew Scheer

I'm one of these people who tends to think that the ordinary people are more fascinating than the celebrities and even the…

— Matt Lauer

The sequester has forced liberals to clarify their conviction that whatever the government's size is at any moment, is the bare minimum…

— George Will

Some people bare their entire life on the Internet. There are politicians and actors, who like that. But there are some who…

— Akshaye Khanna

It [a new world order] needs only that the governments of Britain, the United States, France, Germany, and Russia should get together…

— H. G. Wells

As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does,…

— Karl Marx

The government of the enlightened king? His achievements blanket the world but appear not to be his own doing. His transforming influence…

— Burton Watson

It is Nixon himself who represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character that almost every country in…

— Hunter S. Thompson

What is the use of freedom of the press if the government is in possession of all the printing presses, what does…

— Eugen Richter

Never in my life have I seen an unholy trinity of censorship like I've seen with the power of government, big tech,…

— Clay Travis

“The danger to which the success of revolutions is most exposed is that of attempting them before the principles on which they…

— Thomas Paine

The Government of the Reich, who regard Christianity as the unshakable foundation of the morals and moral code of the nation, attach…

— Adolf Hitler

Freedom exists only where the people take care of the government.

— Woodrow Wilson

I prefer the Greens to remain an opposition party that's able to hold the government to account.

— Elizabeth May

The American government is making nuclear weapons like there's no tomorrow.

— Emo Philips

“. . . being on the wrong side of a pissing contest is never a good thing.”

— Mark M. Bello

The government of Dubai, as much as it is a government, it is a corporation.

— Jamal Khashoggi

When you are in the government, you have to demonise your opposition.

— Mahathir Mohamad

The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.

— Franz Grillparzer

I think most politicians could take a dodgeball in the face.

— Ben Stiller

I am interested in politics so that one day I will not have to be interested in politics.

— Ayn Rand

Canada I don't trust. The Canadian government hates me more than the Japanese.

— Paul Watson

I'd rather have newspapers and no government than government and no newspapers.

— Thomas Jefferson

“We cannot move forward if we allow the past to pull us back.”

— Rodrigo Duterte

“Prison abolition is more than a politic, it’s a daily practice.”

— Shira Hassan

There goes your freedom of choice, there goes the last human voice.

— Tom Petty

I enjoy looking like a tart and thinking like a politician.

— PJ Harvey

Politics is a jungle-torn between doing the right thing and staying in office.

— John F. Kennedy