Politics Quotes · Page 379

There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.

— Anonymous

Governance allows organizations...t o use critical data to drive the organization.

— Dick Taylor

Everyone wants to demagogue everyone else. That may be good politics, but it's awful policy.

— Chris Christie

What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to seek to justify.

— Henry A. Kissinger

Surely there are enough Celtic songs without introducing religion or politics or anything else.

— Jock Stein

You may not think about politics, but politics think about you.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Democracy virtually assures that only bad and dangerous men will ever rise to the top of government.

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

“The desire to avoid short-term hardships leads to major dislocations in [housing] markets.”

— Richard Epstein

I don't know how we continue to do politics in a democracy if we simply can't listen to one another, if we…

— George Packer

If a politician is running in your local community who's pro-choice, who's feminist in their thinking, get behind them. Send them some…

— Ani DiFranco

Bringing an end to mass government surveillance needs to be a central pillar of returning to the principles we have put in…

— Yochai Benkler

“Contrary to unwritten political law of abuse, Civilians are not the doormats of democracy. Civilians are the doors, civilians are the buildings,…

— Abhijit Naskar

When I was in politics, I debated a Nobel Prize-winning economist, climate change activists, governors, senators, congressmen. I debated anybody on an…

— Will Cain

A movie isn't a political movement, a party or even an article. It's just a film. At best it can add its…

— Ken Loach

The notion of a non-religious Christmas is ridiculous. But so is the insistence on the part of Christians that politicians and retailers…

— Rachel Campos-Duffy

Anyone who wants to see a very free world does not want government. I also don't like being extorted or being aggressed…

— Jeff Berwick

Is there some reason why the quality of people going into the parliament is not as high? I don't know the complete…

— Bob Hawke

“Though churches may lose political influence under Christian states or in predominantly Christian societies, though they might be secularized, they do not…

— Philip Jenkins

Musicians and artists are not... it's not like politicians or something where you can't really affect them. There's not like this separate…

— Bradford Cox

When all Americans believe that the people we elect deserve to be in power, that their conduct in office is worthy of…

— Joe Sestak

Prominent and influential editors, accustomed to deal with politicians, men of an infinitely lower grade, say, in their ignorance,that he acted "on…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Most of Senators loves their job, with all the perks and influence it carried, but doesn’t hesitate about complaining how dreadful living…

— Krzysztof Pacyński

“They have clubbed us off the streets they are stronger they are rich they hire and fire the politicians the newspapereditors the…

— John Dos Passos

I was never interested in the two-party system per se. I was interested in how authority was abused by government, and how…

— Jules Feiffer

The BJP doesn't believe in vote-bank politics. We believe India is above everything.

— Amit Shah

“It's about time that governments feared the people instead of the other way around.”

— Henry Rollins

Government should fear the people, not the other way around.

— Killer Mike

The reality is that government is a participative process.

— Katie Hill

Jesus is not from Georgia. Jesus does not speak English. And Jesus is not a member of the NRA.

— Robert Wright

The Koran is an inspiration for intolerance, murder and terror.

— Geert Wilders

“This unprecedented mass murder would have been impossible without a special kind of politics. —”

— Timothy Snyder

God is the foundation of liberty. Because if God is not, who is? The government?

— Dennis Prager

I am very political in my mind, thoughts, and understanding.

— Soni Razdan

On Bill Clinton: I have a simple question: Who's the last President to give you a balanced budget?

— William J. Clinton

The nominal budget is a poor indicator of the impact of government outlays and revenues.

— William Vickrey

Money is the mother's milk of everything, and it certainly is the mother's milk of politics.

— Rush Limbaugh

I am the one person who can truthfully say, I got my job through the New York Times.

— John F. Kennedy

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

— Voltaire

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.”

— Edward R. Murrow

We felt that although they were patchy, there was a tremendous political energy in the Henry plays.

— Edward Hall