Politics Quotes · Page 346

Occupy Wall street is a grassroots anti-government difunction movement like Tea Party.

— Anonymous

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.

— Baron de Montesquieu

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

— Edward Abbey

Running a government as chief minister and managing affairs of the nation are different things.

— Sharad Pawar

Government should be concerned with anti-social conduct, not with utterances.

— William Orville Douglas

Why are you so docile when you give up your child to a government agent called a schoolteacher?

— John Taylor Gatto

Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.

— Alexander Pope

I went into politics on an emotional level and soon realised that emotion has nothing to do with politics.

— Amitabh Bachchan

In the beginning, it was technology, and it was fun, and then it turned to politics, and it's been changing so many…

— Peter Sunde

“It was around the time certain politicians started eschewing the glottal stop in order to demonstrate their man-of-the-people credentials.”

— Elizabeth Day

Sexism has always been a political stance mediating social domination, enabling white men and black men to share a common sensibility about…

— Bell Hooks

I think the federal government should be doing only what the Constitution says it should be. We don't have authority under the…

— Paul Broun

What I say is I am somebody who cares about conservative ideas. I want to see them implemented in governance.

— David Frum

It's not my fault that there is this gap between rich and poor, it is the fault of governments. I want a…

— Emma Thompson

George Orwell once blamed the demise of the English language on politics. It's quite possible he never read a prospectus.

— Arthur Levitt Jr

I have never run for political office, but every night I am reaching out to millions of Americans on the radio and…

— George Noory

The withdrawal that Congress is debating now will only effect whether we leave somewhat gracefully or in complete panic and humiliation. Sistani…

— Cenk Uygur

When you are so obsessed with identity politics it's not healthy because you're constantly worried about how you're perceived as opposed to…

— Greg Gutfeld

“Over the course of the last three decades, however, barriers to power have weakened at a very fast pace. They are now…

— Moisés Naím

The notion that the Supreme Court comes up with the ruling and that automatically subjects the two other branches to following it…

— Mike Huckabee

“Eli Willard just looked at her for a long moment, and then he announced, ' Lady of the Lake strikes iceberg in…

— Donald Harington

I wanted no part of politics. And I wasn't in Berlin to compete against any one athlete. The purpose of the Olympics,…

— Jesse Owens

The politics of resentment against other people will not just leave the Republican Party a fractured party. They're going to leave us…

— Marco Rubio

It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else

— Kwame Nkrumah

“Isn’t the media supposed to keep government responsible?”

— Jameson Currier

I believe the role of the government is too big. Society must be more decentralized.

— Pavel Durov

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

— Richard M. Nixon

I just didn't understand the American political system, and I felt really stupid about that.

— Drew Barrymore

If I can do anything to help Bollywood by being in politics, I think it's worth my while.

— Bappi Lahiri

We talk, as any brothers, or as most brothers do, particularly when you are involved in politics.

— Jo Johnson

Ninety percent of all politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

— Henry Kissinger

I never spoke about politics, with the exception of Election Night.

— Alton Brown

These things I believe: that government should butt out.

— Lyn Nofziger

“i wish there was a thing called stupid tax, which paid for all the stupid things our government does.”

— david leviathan

I think generational trauma also plays a big part in the reactions to Israeli politics.

— Jill Soloway

“A sect, incidentally, is a religion with no political power.”

— Thomas Wolfe

“A person with true power doesn't need to attack. A person without power attacks constantly.”

— DaShanne Stokes

I would prefer the [USA] government to be the policeman and not the businessman.

— Rand Paul

Political thought in France is either nostalgic or Utopian.

— Raymond Aron