Politics Quotes · Page 345

“The real woman does not want to be equal but different.”

— Federico Mangahas

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

— Aristotle

Politicians - well, first of all, they should get rid of nuclear weapons, I think.

— Abdus Salam

If any person has a good word for the previous government that is good enough for me to have him shot.

— Che Guevara

We bought it, we own it, and we're going to take it back.

— Eli Pariser

Government pensions are among the largest cost drivers for state and local governments.

— Bruce Rauner

I want to do something that is not political. I want to do some fundraising, just as a volunteer.

— Mike Coffman

If the government objects to monopoly prices for new inventions, it should stop granting patents.

— Ludwig von Mises

We had to restructure our military and our politics and so on. We're a new democracy. We're a nascent democracy.

— Lukman Faily

I believe that for the small numbers of Jewish people in the United States, they exercise a tremendous amount of influence on…

— Louis Farrakhan

A general principle of good taxation is that similar jobs, and similar kinds of compensation, should be taxed the same way: otherwise,…

— James Surowiecki

In the end, granting mercy comes down to just two people. For the recipient, the pardon is freedom. For the politician, the…

— Asha Rangappa

On housing, education and skills, health and social care, transport and economic development, local government is better placed to make decisions in…

— Wes Streeting

In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of…

— Baron de Montesquieu

The man who has half a million of dollars in property... has a much higher interest in the government, than the man…

— Noah Webster

I was lookin' high an' low for them Reds everywhere, I was lookin' in the sink an' underneath the chair. I looked…

— Bob Dylan

In the 70s and 80s, Dad was 'the most hated politician in Britain'. When I started at Holland Park school, the papers…

— Hilary Benn

“But of course it makes sense because we are Third Worlders and Third Worlders are forward-looking, we like things to be new,…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“They'd taken everything. Everything, and people simply had let them. People had meekly surrendered the world to them in hopes those CEOs…

— S. J. Kincaid

Vote? What's so fun about voting? You should never vote, everyone knows that. If you vote and your guy wins you can't…

— Sergio De La Pava

I need to say how I feel.aIf you were a political person before, and you just happened into a movie, to stop…

— Kathy Najimy

People can have political opinions and put them into songs. I'd never deliberately do that, but that's a personal choice I'm inspired…

— Carla Bruni

The leadership knows that you cannot solve the issues of China's future with the means of the past. The demographic consequences of…

— Ai Weiwei

If you're a white candidate, it is twice as important for you to be talking about racial inequity and not just describing…

— Pete Buttigieg

I'm very much aware of the need for politicians to be careful with language as well as what they do.

— Sajid Javid

Like any successful politician, Obama has benefitted from being well-liked.

— Harry Enten

After getting into politics, I gave away my business and factory to my partners.

— Amit Shah

Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves.

— Joseph Priestley

My son is not a tactic to be used in political arenas for relevancy and points.

— Lucy McBath

The thing is, I hate political comedy. I personally loathe it.

— Christian Finnegan

When you're in politics sometimes you step on toes and they come back and kick you in the backside.

— Steve Bartlett

[This upset] means that means Donald Trump now has to transition to governance.

— Barack Obama

When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.

— Ron Paul

Politics is involved when you don't tackle inefficiency and burden people with higher tariffs.

— Piyush Goyal

I get paid to talk politics, which I've done my entire life and I would do for free anyway.

— Ana Navarro

No bank should be allowed to become so big that it can blackmail governments.

— Angela Merkel

History should be to the political economist a wellspring of experience and wisdom.

— Edward Gibbon

America's government has to get the public investments right.

— Van Jones

It looks to me like any man that wants to be President in times like these lacks something.

— Will Rogers

Jesse Jackson is not anti-Semitic, but in politics, you always get in trouble when you try to be cute.

— Bert Lance