Politics Quotes · Page 358

Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.

— George William Curtis

We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.

— Kwame Nkrumah

Now one of two things is true: Either a republic is a desirable form of government, or else it is not.

— Anna Howard Shaw

My funny speech wasn't funny. That's not the first time a politician has done that.

— Elizabeth May

A government is one that thinks and hears the voice of the poor. A government must live for the poor.

— Narendra Modi

I think all politicians are corrupt. You'll arrest me? It's my freedom to state my opinion.

— Rakii Retondo

I personally thank Rahul Gandhi. He has given me complete free hand in running the government.

— H. D. Kumaraswamy

I've been in the government bureaucracy, I've practiced law, I've done a lot of different things.

— John Bolton

I see Hillary [Clinton] as a calculating politician without any vision. It depends what the next thing is that they calculate she…

— John Kasich

From the beginning, I have been on a mission to restore a people-powered system of campaigns and government.

— Dean Phillips

Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics.

— John Mason Brown

I married a politician. But I thought it would be tough for my children to have two parents as politicians.

— Kerry Kennedy

No one can reasonably deny that Medicare is headed for insolvency, and that Medicare's insolvency, if not rectified, will lead to the…

— David Limbaugh

The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to bind the employer in…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Health care has become a political football that is being tossed back and forth by both sides in Washington. And it's divided…

— Matthew Heineman

“Since politicians and bureaucrats can rarely sign real contracts, the best way to prove you'll do something later is to do it…

— Garett Jones

“Nothing is more difficult than to equalize the action of the government in reference to the various and diversified interests of the…

— John C. Calhoun

I would recommend any American who wants to understand where the government is going in the next four years of George W.…

— Seymour Hersh

MY ACT IS 'NOTHING BUT COMEDY. I TALK SOUTHERN BECAUSE I PICKED IT UP WHEN I MOVED TO THE SOUTH. IM NOT…

— Larry the Cable Guy

I think that now is the moment for us to rededicate ourselves to learning the truth about what happened on February 21st…

— Manning Marable

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true…

— Margaret Fuller

Same-sex couples should have the right to civil marriage. Our time on this earth is limited, I know that better than most.…

— Mark Kirk

All deductions having been made, democracy has done less harm, and more good, than any other form of government. It gave to…

— Will Durant

“A man full of warm, speculative benevolence may wish his society otherwise constituted than he finds it; but a good patriot, and…

— Edmund Burke

There is no word more "dangerous" than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new "unforgivable sin."

— Fulton J. Sheen

In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values.

— Diane Abbott

“Being a politician is a lot like being an alcoholic in denial.”

— Huntley Fitzpatrick

Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Politics is still the No. 1 sport in town and the scoreboard shows the U.S. attorney's office leading.

— Bill Kurtis

If you ever get a war without blood and gore, well, I'll be the first to go.

— Phil Ochs

“Military strategy...has become the diplomacy of violence.”

— Thomas C. Schelling

Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Paula Milne was really the first thing that drew me to 'The Politician's Husband.'

— David Tennant

A lot of artists say, I'm not political. People are afraid of this word.

— Holly Near

“Government activities that are for public consumption are eyewash from the citizens.”

— Dennis Garvin

“Got any stock tips?” I couldn’t help but ask. “The government doesn’t pay shit for salary.”

— Jeaniene Frost

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.

— Andrew Jackson

The government is us; WE are the government, you and I."- Theodore Roosevelt

— Theodore Roosevelt

I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

— Nikhil Saluja

Everything is so weird in politics that it's very hard to be funny about it, I think.

— Tom Lehrer