Politics Quotes · Page 381

Things move very slowly in politics. We seem to fight the same wars over and over again.

— Pete du Pont

I don't like my politicians entertaining me and I don't like my entertainers politicianing me.

— Craig Ferguson

People are a lot less likely to think that their family member is part of the government conspiracy.

— Kemi Badenoch

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.

— Thomas Jefferson

“[T]heories inevitably can't be as complex as life itself.”

— Yuval Levin

I can't see why anyone would want to be in politics because you get so much criticism.

— David Walliams

She has all the qualities of leadership, except followers.

— Dennis Hastert

Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague.

— Max Cannon

“Market forces, not political majorities, will compel societies to reconfigure themselves in ways that public opinion will neither comprehend nor welcome.”

— James Dale Davidson

Almost any government activity can also be seen as taking property without just compensation. The basic model of an unconstitutional aking would…

— Michael Kinsley

“What is above all needed is to let the meaning choose the word, and not the other way around. In prose, the…

— George Orwell

I don't want the chair of the government because it will be controlled by the U.S. and I don't want to be…

— Muqtada al Sadr

Under both the welfare state and communism, the responsibility for the welfare, security, and prosperity of the people is presumed to rest…

— Leonard Read

Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions.

— Albert Einstein

“Without an opportunity, their abilities would have been wasted, and without their abilities, the opportunity would have arisen in vain.”

— Machiavelli Niccolo

Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission…

— Alexander Herzen

Being on the left is supposed to be about unbounded optimism, a belief that what is deemed politically impossible by the 'sensible…

— Owen Jones

As you may know, I'm the co-founder of a political organization called Real Justice. Our goal is to help elect progressive, reform-minded…

— Shaun King

There are plenty of team players in government who do whatever the leader says. There are too few difficult members, who have…

— David Brooks

“[M]onarchy was, or ought to be, not so much absolute as mitigated by the principle of ius politicum , supporting a mixed…

— Patrick Collinson

“The fracture between theology and oikonomia, being and action, insofar as it makes the praxis free and 'anarchic', opens in fact, at…

— Giorgio Agamben

I believe that the harm which Mill has done to the world by the passage in his book on Political Economy in…

— Richard Cobden

To me, elitism means a love of excellence and superiority, but America has declared war on both and developed a sick love…

— Florence King

Science fiction has always been a means for political comment. H.G. Wells' 'The War of the Worlds' wasn't about a Martian invasion…

— Robert J. Sawyer

I hate it when politics play too large part in the sport.

— Jacques Villeneuve

Governments should not be able to bulldoze a person's home or business to benefit other individuals.

— Henry Bonilla

The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.

— Benjamin Disraeli

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.

— John Adams

I don't know a lot about politics, but I know a lot about baseball.

— Richard M. Nixon

Transparency in government leads to reduced corruption.

— Julian Assange

I don't think there is anything more bitter in American politics than a close election.

— Danny Strong

Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.

— Woodrow Wilson

There is a limit to political and public tolerance for sacrifice on behalf of wildlife.

— Steven Rinella

I mean if politics was my main motivation I would be doing politics. But I'm a filmmaker.

— Michael Moore

The fundamental challenge is that people like me simply do not trust the federal government any longer.

— Chris Stewart

I need a break from politics, that's for sure. This is the hardest job in America.

— Ray Nagin

Politics must be founded on the solid faith of God almighty

— Alan Keyes

Women in politics are more honest and forthright. We are not in it for the ego gratification.

— Hanan Ashrawi

The world is now too small for anything but brotherhood.

— A. Powell Davies

People read more mysteries than they do political pamphlets.

— Maj Sjowall