Politics Quotes · Page 349

Barack Obama inherited a bankrupt economy, a bankrupt government, and a bankrupt foreign policy.

— Thomas P.M. Barnett

“Why is it you intense political types insist on living entirely in the symbolic world?”

— Bill Willingham

“Politics is the executive expression of human immaturity.”

— Vera Brittain

The Governor would serve a five-year term and be ineligible for reelection.

— Thomas Jefferson

Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.

— Alvin Toffler

No government demands so much from the citizens as democracy and none gives back so much.

— James Bryce

“I never realized he was such a good actor. He should go into politics.”

— Sophie Kinsella

“People will never get in touch with democracy. It's always surrounded by bodyguards.”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market…

— William Greider

It was a new kind of class war -- the people as citizens versus the politicians and their clients in the public…

— Irving Kristol

Well Australia's been in Afghanistan from the get go, way back in 2001, but we have been resolute throughout and with support…

— Kevin Rudd

The government recognized immediately that Rap music has enormous revolutionary potential and politicians immediately came together to end it.

— Assata Shakur

Information and images bump against each other every day in massive quantities, and the resonance of this interfacing is like the babble…

— Marshall McLuhan

I understand the damage the expenses crisis has done to Parliament, and the paramount importance of restoring trust in our politics.

— George Osborne

“God's word will produce with your level of understanding. The much you can understand it, the more wisdom you are privileged to…

— Patience Johnson

I don't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat, there is something profoundly un-American about using the brute force of government…

— Rand Paul

“I loved her,”I said. I did not say I loved her because she was good to my cousin Abel, good to me,…

— Elizabeth Strout

Democrats (I think to myself) are liberals who believe the people are basically good, but that they need government help to organize…

— Andy Rooney

Political institutions, no matter how well or badly designed, depend for continued existence upon acting men; their conservation is achieved by the…

— Hannah Arendt

“I know that we think far otherwise, and hold them most part wise men that are in authority, princes, magistrates,{185} rich men,…

— Robert Burton

Since all human governments, like all human individuals, are subject to temptation, especially the temptation to use this God-given role for their…

— N. T. Wright

Others -- as most legislators, politicians, lawyers, ministers, and office-holders -- serve the state chiefly with their heads; and, as they rarely…

— Henry David Thoreau

God is calling us to change the politics of hunger because the need is especially great right now. But the opportunities are…

— David Beckmann

My progressive ideals are screaming in [Straight to the Heart: Political Cantos] book; what I believe. There is no muddying-up because of…

— Angela Alioto

Via money Europe could become political in five years

— Jean Monnet

Citizens are all equal in politics: we each have one vote.

— Elayne Boosler

I have come to the conclusions that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

— Charles De Gaulle

“The USA has turned into a great country to study corporate government corruption.”

— Steven Magee

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

— Jonathan Swift

Politics isn't only about government. Politics is about the people.

— Young Jeezy

I have a deep and profound mistrust of all politicians.

— Craig Ferguson

“I call the USA government the “Poverty Government’.”

— Steven Magee

In creating technology for ourselves we created it for the world.

— Thomas A. Edison

The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.

— Immanuel Kant

A lot of times, in music especially, it's producers making a political decision.

— Reggie Watts

“At present", Keynes said in 1926, "everything is politics, and nothing policies.”

— Richard Davenport-Hines

Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

— Margaret Cho

A new-born Government must shine and astonish - the moment it loses its éclat it falls.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

— Tony Benn

Government just simply can't do everything for everyone.

— Jan Brewer