Politics Quotes · Page 353

“A Nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but it's lowest ones”

— Nelson Mandela

Iran is part of the problem, not the solution. And the Russian government is ignoring reality.

— Lindsey Graham

Growing up in politics I know that women decide all elections because we do all the work.

— Caroline Kennedy

“There is more for us to gain through love than hate.”

— Suzy Kassem

In Pakistan, if you have to become a cricketer you have to be a politician first.

— Wasim Akram

I can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics.

— Vijay

The totalitarian toil-state originates in the propertylessness of the majority.

— Louis O. Kelso

I am trying to send directions out and keep control of state government for the final month.

— Scott McCallum

Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable…

— Kofi Annan

When you notice that politicians and the media are after you, it makes you all the more determined to find out the…

— Travis Tygart

Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.

— Alain de Botton

“Nineteen seventy-six come and bring an election with it. The man who bring guns to the ghetto made it clear, that there…

— Marlon James

“It is the moral duty of every US voter to guarantee that Barack Hussein Obama is a one-term president.”

— Michel Templet

If terrorists succeeded in using a weapon of mass destruction against the U.S. or one of our allies, it would likely have…

— Tommy Franks

For the Scottish government, the practice of having meetings in different parts of the country is well established, but for the U.K.…

— Nicola Sturgeon

“In a lot of ways Facebook is more like a government than a traditional company. We have this large community of people,…

— Franklin Foer

I am very cynical. That is absolutely what police is doing. But you don't even have to be cynical. I mean, politicians…

— Peter Moskos

In case after case, President Bush's actions have made American women less safe and less secure -- on the job and on…

— John F. Kerry

“That is why we have welfare instead of workfare meaning that conservatives like welfare. It may sound like a shock to you…

— William Domhoff

Time and again a close election leads to hand-wringing about the need for Electoral College reform; time and again, politicians and parties…

— Ross Douthat

How on earth can we have a true democracy when oligarchs like Elon Musk can buy elections? How can we have a…

— Humza Yousaf

It is now up to us to see that we embark on the next stage leading to political unity, which I think…

— Jacques Santer

The theory behind representative government is that superior men-or at least men not inferior to the average in ability and integrity-are chosen…

— H. L. Mencken

Should any political party attempt to abolish social security unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs you would not hear…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

— Murray Kempton

People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

— Anonymous

[The politician] is asked to stand, he wants to sit, and he is expected to lie.

— Winston Churchill

I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators 'the haute couture of language.'

— Anna Deavere Smith

Look, not everybody plays well with each other on the playground. I get that, that's politics.

— Michael Steele

We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.

— Viola Davis

There is nothing political about American literature.

— Laura Bush

And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.

— Billie Joe Armstrong

Reviewing a government budget is much like going through the attic in an old home.

— Rick Scott

“The psychological and political reasons to overcompensate by insisting on victimhood were strong.”

— Timothy Snyder

Have the most reliable friend you can have in American politics, and that is ready money.

— Phil Gramm

I am hesitating about joining politics since I know the difficulties.

— Rajinikanth

It is up to the government to keep the government's secrets.

— Robert Novak

The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

— Seneca the Elder

We have no political prisons. We have political internal exiles.

— Augusto Pinochet

“Politicians are played by what they say and they don't do”

— Michelangelo Saez