Politics Quotes · Page 369

“I must admit that I feel that the best form of government is benevolent despotism.”

— Jeff Grubb

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

— Abraham Lincoln

We need elected officials who care more about policy than politics.

— Christine Todd Whitman

We cannot sit idly by as Chinese government officials act as puppets for Vladimir Putin's regime.

— Young Kim

The government is a machinery manned by human beings.

— Poonam Dhillon

Any sort of political correctness needs to be swept out of the way

— Julia Gillard

In politics, no argument is as persuasive as electoral success.

— Nick Boles

Some of the FDA's own scientists have charged that politics, not science, is behind the FDA's actions.

— Joseph Crowley

Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of…

— Anonymous

What you demand from storytelling is a moral - even political - import. I tend to shun that didactic aspect.

— Aleksandar Hemon

One faction of one party, in one house of Congress, in one branch of government, doesn't get to shut down the entire…

— Barack Obama

Public opinion, or what passes for public opinion, is not invariably a moderating force in the jungle of politics.

— George F. Kennan

The big tech companies understood that the government had not only damaged American principles, it had hurt their businesses.

— Edward Snowden

The important thing is that government gives the security services the tools that are necessary to keep us safe.

— Amber Rudd

When you get to political machines that can control a state, then you're really into organized crime - almost. You're fighting a…

— Frank Capra

It is entirely clear that there is only one way in which great wars can be permanently prevented, and that is the…

— Bertrand Russell

Let the Democrates go on making its case for more government control over every aspect of our lives. More taxes to pay.…

— Paul Ryan

The frustration of our [The Daily] show is- very much outside any parameters of the media or the government. We don't have…

— Jon Stewart

“The Comtesse's fellow prisoners in this antechamber to death were characteristic of the ill-assorted gatherings thrown together in Revolutionary prisons: duchesses and…

— Stanley Loomis

It really is my opinion that media in general are so bad that we have to question whether the world wouldn't be…

— Julian Assange

I believe that if you are a young person and you're not representative of your government - if you're a left-leaning person…

— Matty Healy

I have done political things, I couldn't care less about politics. I have zero interest in politics, really. They don't allure me.…

— Rick Warren

There is a very uneasy relationship between money and creativity, between money and almost everything. Its tendency to control and corrupt -…

— Bennett Miller

Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and…

— Ricardo Montalban

The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.

— Emmeline Pankhurst

When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.

— Walter Lippmann

The manufacturing and packaging of homogeneous experience is what politics in America is about.

— Howard Rheingold

“I find that the world is changing much, much faster than I can even bitch about it.”

— Bill Maher

The state of law is equal for all people. It cannot depend on electoral politics.

— Baltasar Garzon

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

— Daniel Webster

Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.

— Joseph Stalin

I am known as a good actor and, I dare say, a good politician.

— Shatrughan Sinha

The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark..

— Jack Anderson

I'm neither left or right. I'm just staying home tonight, getting lost in that hopeless little screen.

— Leonard Cohen

A great many political speeches are literary parricides; they kill their fathers.

— George D. Prentice

Comfortable and political can go together quite well.

— Mick Hucknall

Being nice to governments doesn't work, they are such lying bastards.

— Joy Baluch

In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

— Anonymous

Politics in America is the binding secular religion.

— Theodore White

Democracy requires an informed citizenry able to question its government.

— Richard N. Haass