Politics Quotes · Page 354

I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Politicians are the lowest form of life on earth. Liberal Democrats are the lowest form of politicians.

— George S. Patton

This country has moved away from the politics of caste, nepotism, and appeasement.

— Amit Shah

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

— Bertrand Russell

The India-Nepal border should not be a barrier but a bridge which helps bring prosperity to both sides.

— Narendra Modi

You can’t have meaningful political democracy without functioning economic democracy.

— Noam Chomsky

A couple of weeks is a long time in American politics.

— Peter Jennings

I heard a bustling rumor like a fray, And the wind blows it from the Capitol.

— William Shakespeare

When government is regarded as our savior, and children are taught they have no accountability to any higher power, we'll have a…

— Mike Johnson

It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don't have to talk…

— John Hughes

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of…

— Russell Baker

Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an…

— Xenophon

There is something wrong with a government that makes women the legal property of their husbands. The whole system needs changing, but…

— Victoria Woodhull

Well, Judy, I would hope in the new year, we could start thinking about politics not like it was the Super Bowl,…

— John Breaux

My parents were older than normal when they had me, and had been very into the politics of the 1960s, so I…

— Madeleine Peyroux

WASHINGTONIAN, n. A Potomac tribesman who exchanged the privilege of governing himself for the advantage of good government. In justice to him…

— Ambrose Bierce

It would seem, then, to be the part of political wisdom to found government on property; and to establish such distribution of…

— Daniel Webster

The best lesson that any people can learn is that there is no patent cure-all which will make the body politic perfect,…

— Theodore Roosevelt

If multilateral institutions cannot bring about peace and the rule of law because of the vested interests of their members, then both…

— Sharan Burrow

Politics is a subordinate matter; its form of appearance constantly changes depending on the needs of the masses, the same way cocottes…

— Max Beckmann

“Almost all of you in this government are inwardly quite detached from what you outwardly claim to be doing,” True charged. “You’re…

— Jack Pelham

I am the greatest advocate of the Constitution…The only fault I find with the Constitution is, it is not broad enough to…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

History can come in handy. If you were born yesterday, with no knowledge of the past, you might easily accept whatever the…

— Howard Zinn

“This system is called the " system of checks and balances," because each department of the government is supposed to be a…

— Anonymous

Negativity drove me out of politics in the mid-Nineties.

— Mark McKinnon

One can criticize the Israeli government, but it is not fair to judge the people of Israel.

— Antonio Munoz Molina

Tiger Woods and John Edwards had a better year than the Stimulus bill.

— Mitch McConnell

In my family, we were not involved in politics at all.

— Jeff Sessions

When politicians deny anything fiercely, there is a good chance that it will happen.

— Semir Zeki

For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.

— Hannah Arendt

“Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I'll show you a crook.”

— Harry Truman

There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.

— Isaac Hanson

Both political parties have a richly vested interest in corporate corruption.

— Arianna Huffington

A man will blithely do in politics what he would kick a man downstairs for in ordinary life.

— Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery

Most politicians are either generalists or specialists. It's very rare that a politician is both.

— Margrethe Vestager

Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.

— Noam Chomsky

I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.

— John Maynard Keynes

Governments that try to shoot for a surplus hardly ever reach it.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“...the last official act of any government is to loot their own treasury.”

— Glenn Beck

She cannot see an institution without hitting it with her handbag.

— Julian Critchley