Politics Quotes · Page 330

We make our own future; we govern ourselves, and to govern is to choose.

— Martin O'Malley

... it's important that people who are politically active understand both sides.

— Eva Longoria

I have good friends who are politicians on both sides.

— Dwayne Johnson

There is an increasing awareness of the need for some form of global government.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

People everywhere face the threat of control by government and technology.

— Paul Craig Roberts

The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.

— Benjamin Franklin

I hope 'Chess' will hit the big screen. It seems a natural to me. Good venues, tunes, and politics.

— Tim Rice

Expectoration: If you go to a political rally, you should EXPECTORATION.

— Nikhil Saluja

Donald Trump's meeting with the president of Mexico comes after months of bashing that country and its political leadership. Trump has called…

— Steve Kornacki

“A brick could be used as a floatation device. But only use it if the person drowning is a politician.
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— Jarod Kintz

“To have a viable civilization, people have to have a benign government, a semblance of education, spare time, imagination, and manners”

— Jonathan Chamberlain Williams

I'm still a political revolutionary. The fire never went out of me, but perceptions and realizations change.

— Bobby Seale

Winston [ Churchill] is a dandy and a visionary. Unfortunately, in winning wars, principles are inevitably debased. That's politics.

— Coco Chanel

“If left unattended by nonvigilant citizens, the freedoms of democracy can be lost to an all-powerful state, and citizens can become transformed…

— Christine Barbour

Political differences will always generate a healthy debate, but over time the dialogue has become more hateful and at times violent.

— Mark Udall

I've said it before and I'll say it again. The U.S. Geological Survey has told me that the proven potential for oil…

— Ronald Reagan

“In companies, nonprofits, government, and the military, he finds that the more people believe their jobs help others, the less emotionally exhausted…

— Sheryl Sandberg

“As far as the political, military, and economic interests of the world’s powers go, (Rwanda) might as well be Mars. In fact,…

— Philip Gourevitch

Every time I think that political analysts and writers will finally recognize that most of them don't understand much about political polls,…

— Bob Beckel

The basic function of the government everywhere in all times, whatever title it adopts and whatever its origin and organisation may be,…

— Errico Malatesta

You have six of the ten wealthiest counties in America surround Washington, D.C., and the poor and middle class are getting squeezed…

— Mike Lee

I believed that regardless of political ideologies - the reality was I didn't even have any - which is no excuse, and…

— Stephanie Winston Wolkoff

“the convictions that leaders have formed before reaching high office are the intellectual capital they will consume as long as they continue…

— Henry Kissinger

“The other component was to build cadres through political education. Republicans sought out wealthy donors to set up foundations and think tanks…

— Mark Lilla

I have no time for political hacks who say things they don't believe because they get paid to,

— Tucker Carlson

The place where the system and people's intentions meet is the political arena.

— Peter Garrett

My politics were those of prophylaxis, my opponents preferred those of palliation.

— Rudolf Virchow

“I didn't change. The Democratic Party slid to the Left from right under me.”

— Charlton Heston

Much of today's psychiatric science is based on wish, myth, and politics...

— Loren Mosher

No man should have a political office because he wants a job.

— Franklin Knight Lane

What the federal government does basically is borrow money from people and mail it to people.

— George Will

No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.

— Rose Wilder Lane

Politics is about ethics and morality, openly or not openly.

— Aleksandar Hemon

Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.

— James Madison

We need to put in place an economic system of governance for the euro-zone.

— Francois Fillon

“People change, but politicians change too many times.”

— DON SANTO

I designed collections around whatever struck my fancy ... fruits, vegetables, politics, or peacocks!

— Lilly Pulitzer

Ain't that America, home of the free? Little pink houses for you and me.

— Anonymous

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

— John Morley

As long as countries like China keep going all in on clean energy, so must we.

— Barack Obama