Politics Quotes · Page 315

I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.

— Pete Seeger

“The way I see it, all politicians are one of three things: liars, crooks or pricks.”

— Eli Yance

I came to politics later in life so I bring a different life experience to it.

— Kathleen Wynne

I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools.

— William Shakespeare

It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

— W. Somerset Maugham

“All dreams of empire end because day breaks in the hearts of the slaves used to build it.”

— Luke Montgomery

“What did he want?” Sevro asks. “What do all politicians want?” “Prostitutes.” “Control.”

— Pierce Brown

All politics are local, whether in Kabul or in Canada.

— Chris Alexander

I'm fed up with the top-down style of politics, where discussion in our party is stifled because of sectarianism and tribalism.

— Clive Lewis

There are an awful lot of people who despise government precisely because it opened the door for common citizenship for people of…

— Taylor Branch

When a government goes to war, particularly a democracy, it is the most solemn and awesome responsibility of our leaders - to…

— Joe Wilson

“It was bad enough to see friendship and love in terms of politics. But seeing it in terms of business was even…

— Elizabeth Eulberg

Being ruled by a depraved poet-king who is sacrified each spring is the worst form of government except all the others that…

— Tim Pratt

When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much…

— Baron de Montesquieu

In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination.

— Mark Twain

The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government…

— Carly Fiorina

Republicans like to accuse Democrats of trying to 'pick winners and losers.' They say we should run government 'like a business' and…

— Tom Steyer

Pretty much at all times music motivates me. How can I say this without sounding in any way proud of myself? Obviously…

— Eddie Vedder

I think the country could be spared a lot of agony and the government could worry about inflation and a lot of…

— William J. Clinton

The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign. Inept political…

— Theodore C. Sorensen

I'm not saying that all politicians are awful. I don't know any of them well enough to say whether they're awful or…

— Peter Capaldi

The overarching conventional wisdom - what everyone from government experts to my French girlfriends take as articles of faith - is that…

— Pamela Druckerman

Of course, you have politics, the Vietnam war and all that monkey business. There are all kinds of reasons. At every one…

— Garry Winogrand

The United States is at a critical juncture in time. Our government is riddled with historic debt, and the limited resources of…

— Simon Mainwaring

There's overwhelming evidence that there was a connection between Al Qaeda and the Iraqi government

— Dick Cheney

A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

You don't have good government unless you have good people working in government.

— Andy Kim

“It's a good thing the American people aren't getting all the government they're paying for.”

— Will Rogers

I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services.

— Imran Khan

I know all the bad things that happened in that war. I was in uniform four years myself.

— Ronald Reagan

They are each good when they are out, and each bad when they are in.

— Will Rogers

In the government's eyes, the Branch Davidians were a threat.

— Malcolm Gladwell

Don't make a novel to establish a principle of political economy. You will spoil both.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.

— Olof Palme

Steal a little and they throw you in jail Steal a lot and they make you king.

— Bob Dylan

SAMO as an end to to mindwash religion, nowhere politics and bogus philosophy.

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.

— Anonymous

I do vote but I don't think that any political party represents my point of view.

— Rupert Sheldrake

Behind every corrupt politician are 10-20 corrupt businessmen.

— Mo Ibrahim

An invention is something that was "impossible" up to then that's why governments grant patents.

— Robert A. Heinlein