Politics Quotes · Page 376

Politics is a contact sport, and certainly heads butt from time to time.

— Nicole Malliotakis

I will deal with the politicians in a political way and with the nonpoliticians in a nonpolitical way.

— Muqtada al Sadr

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.

— Edmund Burke

Compassion is good but politicians have turned compassion into the welfare state.

— Thomas Sowell

You should govern not by partisanship, but by leadership.

— Kevin Faulconer

Sometimes momentous government action leaves everyone uncertain about the next move.

— Neal Katyal

Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom.

— Jim Hightower

What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

[For business after WWII ] democracy means getting people to regard government as an alien force that's robbing them and oppressing them,…

— Noam Chomsky

The dull, purblind folly of the very rich men, their greed and arrogance, and the corruption in business and politics, have tended…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Gay diversity is like the Village People. You can all wear different stupid outfits as long as you sing the same stupid…

— Jack Malebranche

Totalitarian rule marks the sharpest contrast imaginable with political rule, and ideological thinking is an explicit and direct challenge to political thinking.

— Bernard Crick

The Iranian government intends to use the nuclear program for peaceful purposes, but must convince international public opinion of that.

— Shirin Ebadi

I believe that politics takes a much different set of skills than science. Science is about getting to the truth. Politics is…

— Stanley B. Prusiner

Our country's got a sin problem, and I believe if these politicians in Washington would recognize the moral failure of so many…

— Franklin Graham

“The idea that DeSantis single-handedly made Florida a conservative paradise, they quietly griped, was complete fiction.”

— Matt Dixon

Indeed, if I understand this global-warming business correctly, the danger is that the waters will rise and drown the whole of Massachusetts,…

— Mark Steyn

Political civility is not about being polite to each other. It's about reclaiming the power of 'We the People' to come together,…

— Parker Palmer

The idea of a world commonweal has to be established as the criterion of political institutions, and also as the criterion of…

— H. G. Wells

The religious habits of the Americans form not only the basis of their private and public morals, but have become so thoroughly…

— Francis Grund

There is a pattern whereby even if you can't map out the exact policies and issues that might be dangerous for you…

— James Cleverly

Each government accuses the other of perfidy, intrigue and ambition, as a means of heating the imagination of their respective nations, and…

— Thomas Paine

The Liberal Party has dealt with the spill motion and now this matter is behind us, we think that when you elect…

— Tony Abbott

I'm not necessarily opposed to greater American involvement. But if that's the way the Mexican government wants to go, it needs to…

— Denise Dresser

You don't want lopsided government. You don't want one side running roughshod over the other.

— William Safire

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.

— Stephen Leacock

We need to find a way of having a conversation across the parties on how you fund local government.

— Johann Lamont

Go and try to start your own government in the United States today and you'll be squashed very quickly.

— Peter Diamandis

The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.

— John Paul Stevens

“The business of the government is the business of the people.”

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“The news is always a good resource for developing quotes.”

— Steven Magee

I pledge undying hostility to any government restrictions on the free minds of the people.

— Thomas Jefferson

It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes.

— Svetlana Alliluyeva

Politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live.

— Maynard Jackson

Music that speaks of politics is less listened to than the music of partying, but it's still there.

— Gregory Porter

I don't think politics just happens in Parliament. It happens on the streets and in classrooms.

— Caroline Lucas

I'm a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.

— Golda Meir

Politics and music don't necessarily go hand in hand. They just do for me...

— Steve Earle

It is an expensive government program with the power to kill people.

— L. Brent Bozell, Jr

For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.

— Anonymous