Politics Quotes · Page 327

Of course I voted for him. He wasn't a politician; he was a craze.

— Ewan McGregor

Industrial combination is not wrong in itself. The danger lies in taking government into partnership.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Take the government away. Let the parents take care of their kids.

— Bruce Bickford

Ohio proved that AI is a powerful and efficient tool for addressing the problem of government waste.

— Jon Husted

It is not a government's obligation to provide services, but to see that they are provided.

— Mario Cuomo

Just as good schools need strong headteachers, so good governments need strong prime ministers.

— Julia Hartley-Brewer

Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.

— Iain Duncan Smith

Victory has 1,000 fathers; defeat has 1,000 kibitzers.

— Jeff Greenfield

I like developing characters who I find to have interesting psychology. Like politics and sex, but I'm really looking at bigger social…

— Mora Stephens

“We're a complacent society, hard to get riled up in the first place, and then when we do, it's misdirected.”

— Bill Maher

Dexterity is one of the chief weapons of diplomacy; governments rely more upon the supremacy of this instrument, when in the hands…

— James Ellis

I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day.

— Dave Eggers

“some supporters of the unrestrained free market have found that dogma: the claim that science is nothing more than politics.”

— Timothy Snyder

I can't think of any male politician who magnetizes love and hate - mainly hate - the way [Margaret Thatcher] did.

— Hilary Mantel

The language of politics is poetry, not prose. Jackson is poetry. Cuomo is poetry. Dukakis is a word processor.

— Richard M. Nixon

Political campaigns offer Americans an opportunity to adjust direction, reaffirm values, and recommit to the covenant that binds them together.

— Stanley A. McChrystal

The hired journalist, I thought, ought to realize that he is partly in the entertainment business and partly in the advertising business…

— Claud Cockburn

We're looking at the singular condition of poverty. All the other individual problems spring from that condition... doesn't matter if it's death,…

— Bob Geldof

When I was trying to figure out how the government might go about creating the camps in 'The Darkest Minds,' I researched…

— Alexandra Bracken

“The death of awe in our culture has left us with an oddly credulous cynicism. We are cynical, suspicious of established government,…

— Dennis E. Johnson

It took forever for me to get work because I was a political comic, and now it's become good business, and God…

— Lewis Black

“Political analysts and reporters who skimmed the surface only saw Dr Singh as ‘Sonia’s puppet’. Those who had a deeper knowledge of…

— Sanjaya Baru

“Venice, ruled by a Council of Ten for 500 years, has a history of secretive government by a cosy nexus of political…

— Anonymous

“Politics is not just about power and money games, politics can be about the improvement of people's lives, about lessening human suffering…

— Al Franken

The opportunism of electoral politics makes people lie to each other.

— Boots Riley

“There's no need to hear gossip about government. It'll only give you gas.”

— Gregory Maguire

I think my films are always political, even if I don't put explicitly political things in them.

— Pedro Almodovar

A leader has to lead otherwise he has no business in politics.

— Harry S. Truman

A man never stoops so low as when he rises to the challenge of politics.

— Hunter S. Thompson

I am disgraced, impeached, and baffled here, Pierced to the soul with slander's venomed spear.

— William Shakespeare

We need to be brave and tell the politicians what a better future could be.

— Ma Yansong

No government, no head of state, made any attempt to avert or arrest the Boer War.

— Charles Albert Gobat

Even to me, as I was trying to tell the government what had happened, it just didn't seem to matter.

— Patty Hearst

Peace will come to earth when the people have more to do with each other and governments less.

— Richard Cobden

I believe every Christian should be involved in politics.

— Bill Bright

San Francisco is a City for everyone and our government needs to work for all of our residents.

— London Breed

The best way for someone to govern is to set an example.

— Antonis Samaras

Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.

— E. L. Doctorow

No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Ask not what your country can do for you,but ask what you can do for your country.”

— John F. Kennedy