Politics Quotes · Page 363

I do think actually in this case the government does get credit for funding some of the basic research.

— Steve Case

Government under democracy is thus government by orgy, almost by orgasm.

— Henry Louis Mencken

The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.

— Thomas Jefferson

Throughout history government has seldom hesitated from robbing its citizens in a crisis.

— James Cook

I haven't been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.

— Biz Stone

Far-left political ideologues want to reshape sports culture to their liking.

— Jason Whitlock

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

— Abraham Lincoln

True liberal government is founded on the emancipation of men.

— Herbert Hoover

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The…

— Thomas Sowell

If you are really interested in making government work, you should have the experience of working in government.

— Jennifer Pahlka

In writing ... remember that the biggest stories are not written about wars, or about politics, or even murders. The biggest stories…

— Susan Glaspell

People who can't rely on their wits and intelligence to reach success -- that's not what government is about, and that's not…

— Christy Carlson Romano

Being government funded does not necessarily mean being biased, just like being privately funded does not necessarily mean being independent.

— Margarita Simonyan

I call the present system 'Post-Constitutional America.' As I sometimes put it, the U.S. Constitution poses no serious threat to our form…

— Joseph Sobran

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the…

— John Quincy Adams

Politics of Kenya is all about copetition amongs politicians,its more of ethnicity and tribalism…when will this cease in Kenya.

— Anonymous

We are changing the way we govern ourselves - not just in the way we work in New Delhi, but also in…

— Narendra Modi

Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make…

— Henry David Thoreau

Canadians expect their government to make sure we're helping the people who need the help and growing the economy, and that's exactly…

— Justin Trudeau

I just don't really get into all that sort of personal negative stuff. My job is to outline some positive plans for…

— Kevin Rudd

Our political document shows that we are prepared in the context of a national consensus to accept a state on the lines…

— Khaled Mashal

I spent my older teen years holding my tongue while my Hollywood coworkers gushed about big government, attacked anyone to the Right…

— Brett Cooper

Raising a daughter is an extremely political act in this culture. Mothers have been placed in a no-win situation with their daught…

— Elizabeth Debold

The American farmer, whose holdings were not so extensive as those of the grandee nor so tiny as those of the peasant,…

— Richard Hofstadter

We'd be very happy to work with any government of the day which the people in India elect.

— Shehbaz Sharif

Every time in politics they've a change of a leader, just remember they're changing liars.

— Jeremy Limn

Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.

— W. C. Fields

Politics is for the present, while our equations are for eternity.

— Walter Isaacson

One role of government is to go where venture capital won't.

— Joe Biden

“The revolutionary government was required to become the government of the war.”

— Albert Camus

When it comes to politics, there's never a certain yes or no to any situation.

— Riteish Deshmukh

All governments are, to a certain extent, a treaty with the Devil.

— Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi

“I'm happy to be a card-carrying member of the ANC.”

— Nadine Gordimer

The President's post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.

— Anonymous

“Only careful political manoeuvring will be able to manage the situation.”

— Davan Yahya Khalil

A real possibility now exists for a Government that is not led by either Fine Gael or Fianna Fáil

— Gerry Adams

To make even fewer friends try talking about politics as much as you talk about yourself.

— Demetri Martin

Sport's always political and here it's more complex because we're a nation without a state.

— Joan Laporta

My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

— Jesse Jackson

I believe the test of government is the contentment of the people.

— Lian Hearn