Politics Quotes · Page 344

Federal judges are just very reluctant to stick the government with responsibility.

— Stewart Udall

Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives.

— Jonathan Sacks

Like politics, all status is ultimately local - people compare themselves to those they live near.

— Alissa Quart

A louder government with less journalism does not enrich our democratic process.

— Ari Melber

I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs.

— Nancy Reagan

I've had my own comedy series on telly and I know the truth about politics.

— Harry Enfield

“There's a whole generation growing up thinking...the government exists to care for them.”

— Dave Ramsey Rachel Cruze

Vengeance is a personal reaction. But not one that government can indulge in.

— Janet Reno

Voting is completely important. People in America think democracy is a given. I think of it as an ecosystem, and what gets…

— Henry Rollins

We have no government and no laws, if by law is meant a stereotyped convention supported by force, and not to be…

— Olaf Stapledon

The exercise of authority is odious, and they who know how to govern, leave it in abeyance as much as possible.

— John Lancaster Spalding

Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind of people do…

— Anonymous

History showed that many people had lost their respect for any religion that had relied upon the support of government to spread…

— Hugo Black

Obamacare is not about health care. Obamacare is about the expansion of government and the total loss of freedom.

— Rush Limbaugh

I've been in politics now for long enough to not worry about what others are saying, but instead to talk about what…

— Mitt Romney

Seattle is a liberal city, its politics not so much blue (in the American, not the British, sense) as deep ultramarine, and…

— Jonathan Raban

Can I say one other thing that's very important? I'm indebted to Donald Trump for a long time, we've had this problem…

— Barney Frank

“I was having dinner…in London…when eventually he got, as the Europeans always do, to the part about “Your country’s never been invaded.”…

— P.J. O'Rourke

When the government is looking for a criminal in the crowd, it construes people in terms of culpability: innocence or guilt. When…

— Nicole Miller

Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a…

— Ayn Rand

“Experts need to remember, always, that they are the servants and not the masters of a democratic society and a republican government.…

— Thomas M. Nichols

If literature is to transcend political interference and return to being a testimony of man and his existential predicament, it needs first…

— Gao Xingjian

In 1897, troops from the greatest empire the world had ever seen marched down London’s mall for Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee. Seventy…

— Mark Steyn

Well, will anybody deny now that the Government at Washington, as regards its own people, is the strongest government in the world…

— John Bright

The only person out there worthy of mixing political views and music is Jello Biafra.

— Hank Williams III

“It’s only a problem until you ignore it. Come on, that’s Politics 101.”

— Jarod Kintz

You can't create a political movement out of pabulum.

— Robert Reich

People are angry and dispirited about government because of a failure to do something about crime.

— Charles Schumer

People want government to solve problems, but government is often the cause of the problem.

— James Cook

As a great employer, one of things we prize is political consistency and clear policy.

— Joe Kaeser

“No one who ever led a nation got there by following the path of another.”

— Jay Samit

Creativity is messy and inefficient. But corporate governance needs to be tight and organized.

— Travis Knight

What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.

— Paddy Ashdown

Every politician is emphatically a promising politician.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I am sure I will make a great politician because I love to help people.

— S. Sreesanth

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Some people would believe anything, especially if it eliminates awkward social and political problems.

— Thomas Balogh, Baron Balogh

One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.

— Calvin Coolidge

“Under a goverment which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison”

— Henry David Thoreau

To the efficacy and permanency of your union a government for the whole is indispensable.

— George Washington