Politics Quotes · Page 368

Politicians should inspire you to vote, they should appeal to people.

— Kenneth Clarke

The government's focus is very clear: borrow, build, monetise and repay.

— Anurag Thakur

To "bear arms" is, in itself, a military term. One does not bear arms against a rabbit.

— Garry Wills

Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.

— James Madison

This politics of double standards has brought the country to the brink of disaster.

— Shatrughan Sinha

The Media: bold sex and violence, timid politics and morals.

— Mason Cooley

I'm happy to talk politics...if you are not brave enough to air your opinions...then stay silent...

— Dean Cain

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

— Ronald Reagan

I'm not interested to change about the government. I'm interested to change the conditions for the people. So, yes, I talk a…

— Matteo Renzi

The politics, policies, the President [Barack Obama] and the American people are all pointing in the right direction to fix our immigration…

— Luis Gutierrez

The politics of crime is not about a party's record or a candidates proposals, but about perceived character and values.

— Susan Estrich

Imagine the wars we would've avoided if prior generations had a website where they could debate tragedy and politics in terse sentences?

— Eugene Mirman

When a feminist as strident as Garofalo is defending the Hussein regime, you have to wonder if her newfound sobriety has hit…

— Ann Coulter

“Kill someone on the behalf of yourself, you get deemed a murderer. Kill someone on behalf of your Government, you get deemed…

— J.Adam Snyder

I'm a wishy-washy 'Guardian' reader, but the last thing I want to do is force a political agenda down people's throats. It's…

— Alastair Reynolds

The politics of envy is the politics of this commandment: "Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote." It is the politics…

— Gary North

I am persuaded, from all the facts that have come to me, that it would have been possible, if we had functioned…

— J. Reuben Clark

“How do politicians cope with the challenges of predicting or manipulating the future, given that we can have only partial knowledge of…

— Marcus du Sautoy

In North America, people get a sense that something is really wrong in government and in our culture. There is a corruption,…

— Jennifer Beals

I, sir, have always conceived - I believe those who proposed the constitution conceived,and it is still more fully known, and more…

— James Madison

“And they were always young, Air Corps pilots and ensigns, and good-looking girls in fur coats, and always the government secretary or…

— Norman Mailer

My strength is in finding ways to make the government work for the people: finding waste, or money that is not being…

— Tammy Duckworth

I am afraid the ordinary citizen will not like to be told that the banks can, and do, create money...And they who…

— Reginald McKenna

Anarchism stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion and liberation of the human body from the…

— Emma Goldman

“Unless paid, I never read books by or about businessmen or politicians, nor should anyone else.”

— Joe Queenan

“Political opinions come from the heart, but the head claims the credit.”

— Guillermo Jimenez

I think our politicians could learn a lot from Mandela.

— Clint Eastwood

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other 10% a bad reputation.

— Henry Kissinger

A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employment.

— Aristotle

Obviously, I haven't succeeded in defusing the political concerns about the Fed.

— Ben Bernanke

I get no pleasure from politics; it's not in my character.

— Bidzina Ivanishvili

When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner

— William Shakespeare

I just don't think our best are in politics. I think these guys are inept.

— John Layfield

The Kashmir problem is a very old one and has been a major challenge for all governments.

— Rajnath Singh

I think you can get away with being a bit more political in science fiction.

— Rupert Sanders

“the story of liberty is a history of the limitation of a government power, not the increase of it.”

— William J Federer

We need to get young people excited about politics, excited about government.

— Jeanne Shaheen

Mass inflation, welfare line, gross economy, trade it all for what's behind curtain number three.

— Joe Walsh

In hip-hop, as in neoliberalism, economics bullied politics out of the picture.

— Mark Fisher

I cover media people the way they cover politicians.

— Matt Drudge