Politics Quotes · Page 313

I feel so important; I voted for another person to become a politician and be 100 times richer than me!

— Obsidian Panther

He who casts a vote decides nothing. He who counts the vote decides everything.

— Joseph Stalin

The public man needs but one patron, namely, the lucky moment.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

To be locked into partisan politics doesn't permit you to think clearly.

— Rudy Giuliani

Give a moment or two to the angry young man with his foot in his mouth and his heart in his hand.

— Billy Joel

The art of government is the organization of idolatry.

— George Bernard Shaw

“You govern people, you do good and bad things. If you don't have guts to do bad, then step aside.”

— Toba Beta

Our leaders are the finest men, that's whey we elect them again and again.

— Tom Paxton

[T]he only way to shrink the trade deficit is for the government to prohibit us from buying whatever we want.

— John Stossel

The little I know of it has not served to raise my opinion of what is vulgarly called the Monied Interest; I…

— William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

The positive aspect of my negative view is essentially that you shouldn't own cash and government bonds, but you should be in…

— Marc Faber

Let's get this straight now: a Senate impeachment trial is not a court of law. It's a court of politics.

— Mike Braun

We know the problems… and we know the solution; sustainable development. The issue is the political will

— Tony Blair

Political prisoners are important to support because we are in prison for explicitly social/political/progressive goals. Our lack of freedom does affect how…

— Susan Rosenberg

Many in local government will ask why should only a few areas have the freedoms and benefits of Enterprise Zone status while…

— Andy Sawford

It is an ambassador's duty to stand up for his nation's foreign policy in any era and under any government whatsoever. Ambassadors…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Right-wing media and politicians are looking for any opportunity to be critical of the reporters who are here. Some reporters make judgments,…

— Peter Arnett

These days, however, the main problem comes from the right - from conservatives who, unlike most economists, really do think that the…

— Paul Krugman

A country, people, and society are in a sorry state when the guardians of its democratic values and the rule of law…

— Ronen Bergman

Of all the difficulties in a state, the temper of a true government most felicifies and perpetuates it; too sudden alterations distemper…

— Francis Quarles

It isn't a coincidence that governments everywhere want to educate children. Government education, in turn, is supposed to be evidence of the…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

“Around the world, varying belief systems lead to political differences that are not always resolved peacefully. The power and beauty of physical…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I will no longer allow my obligation as a veteran to remember those who died in the great wars to be co-opted…

— Harry Leslie Smith

“As politicians we ought not so much to ground our hopes on the reasonableness of the thing we ask, as on the…

— Thomas Paine

Don't talk to the people until you've listened to the people.

— Anne Klein

Ideas are the only things that count, and politicians are, for the most part, pretty much irrelevant.

— Ron Paul

I have been the only female minister in every government department I've worked in.

— Liz Truss

In a society of criminals, the innocent man goes to jail.

— Philip K. Dick

I think 'community,' in the sense in which politicians use, it is largely a cant term.

— John Lanchester

Powers once assumed are never relinquished, just as bureaucracies, once created, never die.

— Charley Reese

If you want to kill the Syrian people, who's going to support us as a government, as officials? No one.

— Bashar al-Assad

I try not to change my political point of view from paper to paper.

— Jonathan Shapiro

I wonder if it's possible to be a Republican and a Christian at the same time.

— Hillary Clinton

It is often too late by the time the government reacts.

— Vandana Shiva

“Kadafi is a zombie in a pillbox hat, that's what he is!”

— Bill Maher

But the biggest fake of the year, Paul Begala's last smile

— Dennis Miller

“Political leaders are a reflection of our society.”

— Sukant Ratnakar

“The deal with multiculturalism is that the only culture you're allowed to disapprove of is your own.”

— Martin Amis

“A brick could be used as food for thought. Every politician should chew on that.
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— Jarod Kintz

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

— Confucius