Politics Quotes · Page 362

When someone with a rural accent says, I don't know much about politics, zip up your pockets.

— Donald Rumsfeld

“The language of law should be simple and straight, if you expect people to obey it.”

— Amit Kalantri

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

— Herbert Hoover

“There is no perfect government except in textbooks.”

— Jayson Lusk

Always love your country - but never trust your government!

— Robert Novak

To make certain that crime does not pay, the government should take it over and try to run it.

— J. Norman Collie

We took such a beating on Bofors. As far as I know, no one from my government was involved.

— Rajiv Gandhi

European democracy, for me, is the best form of government invented by mankind.

— Petro Poroshenko

I believe that the federal government should be laying down broadband like Eisenhower laid down interstates.

— John Hodgman

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.

— Margaret Thatcher

I'm very much a believer that it's action that matters much more so than, you know, the flurry of political promises and…

— Christine Lagarde

The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. . . . [A] government resting upon popular suffrage cannot be successful…

— John Dewey

Once the people of planet Earth are all hanging out together online in a virtual world without any borders, I think it…

— Ernest Cline

This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity,…

— Christopher Dawson

If there were such a thing as Chapter 11 for politicians, the Republican push to extend the unaffordable Bush tax cuts would…

— David Stockman

Right-thinking people are not supposed to discuss any meteorological or geophysical event - a hurricane, a wildfire, a heat wave, a drought,…

— Joel Achenbach

“A patent is simply and purely a grant of monopoly. Why would a supposedly enlightened government, which has laws against monopolies in…

— Anonymous

They seemed like a team. And I think it is fair to say that Roosevelt was the consummate politician and that Eleanor…

— William A. Rusher

The fact that the government had to put up hundreds of billions of dollars to Citibank in guarantees was a public declaration…

— Joseph Stiglitz

Where the government has got it seriously wrong is to imagine that poetry is about right and wrong answers, that poetry has…

— Michael Rosen

“This renewed politics of otherness not only allowed entire categories of poor whites to develop a powerful sense of racial belonging, but…

— Derrick Bell

My father taught me many things. Two of them come to mind right now: Stay true to your values. You can compromise…

— Justin Trudeau

The IPCC 'policy summaries,' written by a small group of their political operatives, frequently contradict the work of the scientists that prepare…

— Peter Friedman

The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

— James Madison

Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant.

— Henri Queuille

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

— Jimmy Carter

If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked.

— George Gilder

Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.

— Walter Cronkite

“Many Christians have put the political cart before the theological horse.”

— Michael Babcock

The Bible is the supreme law that all governments must obey.

— Randall Terry

Environmental laws were not passed to protect our air and water, they were passed to get votes.

— Frank Zappa

The Senate is where the issues are, and most people there are career politicians.

— Mike Braun

I believe there should be political consequences for politicians who commit voter suppression.

— Jason Kander

Politics in America is like stale bread. It's so yada yada that the best among us can hardly stand it.

— Marianne Williamson

Politics is the name we give to the orchestration of power in any society.

— Robert McKee

“When we fight wars, money is no object. When we choose peace, we ration every penny.”

— Joel Berg

“I used to think my father had been assigned to us by the government.”

— Akhil Sharma

“Terrorists have no need for the nuances of politics. Of”

— Bobby Akart

Something is wrong with our government when I see people using food stamps and an iPhone.

— Anonymous