Politics Quotes · Page 384

[Democrats] are trying on every front to increase the role of government.

— Barney Frank

Newspapers in this country are famously independent of politics.

— Grant Shapps

Anything that keeps a politician humble is healthy for democracy.

— Michael Kinsley

Red lines are kind of political arguments that are used to try to put people in a corner.

— Leon Panetta

If government is inevitable, the challenge is to come up with the most effective one possible.

— Robert H. Frank

Politics or ideology must not get in the way of sound planning.

— Chuck Hagel

I see a government completely out of control, and money is number one. Integrity isn't even on the map.

— Neil Young

When people know there's going to be something silly they allow you the space to be political.

— Omid Djalili

I don't want to transform America. I want to restore to America the economic values of freedom and opportunity and limited government…

— Mitt Romney

The rules and reasons the political system employs to enforce status relations of any kind, including racial hierarchy, evolve and change as…

— Michelle Alexander

Congress should not be like the Super Bowl where you have to have one team that's going to win and another team…

— John Breaux

I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than…

— Oliver Cromwell

Our own GOP machine, the establishment, they who would assemble the political landscape, they're attacking their own front-runner.

— Sarah Palin

In a world where the body politic has the attention span at times of a goldfish, yep, you've got to have the…

— Matt Gaetz

Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for…

— Coretta Scott King

I have always thought that Donald Trump was an incredibly clever politician, but he's - at some point he's going to become…

— Donald Trump

If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from…

— George Washington

“There is, in fact, no need to drag politics into literary theory: as with South African sport, it has been there from…

— Terry Eagleton

Man is not the enemy of man, but through the medium of a false system of Government. Instead, therefore, of exclaiming against…

— Thomas Paine

“McNarney relayed a Soviet complaint that he was too slow in disbanding and confining several German units in his sector of military…

— Ladislas Farago

I think very highly of Expo and all is going well. We've seen big problems with [corruption] scandals [at local government level],…

— Franca Sozzani

I've been able to see some very impressive people that are in politics, and I've been able to see a lot more…

— Donald Trump, Jr

Conquered states that have been accustomed to liberty and the government of their own laws can be held by the conqueror in…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“Not surprisingly, this huge American “industry” has huge political clout—with the expansion of prosecutorial and correctional workers’ power, the growing number of…

— David Cay Johnston

Every Indian has a right to take part in politics. Why not me?

— Smriti Irani

I think, politically, I'm pretty left-wing, and I try to be very neutral in my work.

— Sebastian Junger

“War is simply the continuation of politics by other means”

— Carl von Clausewitz

I think serving your government is the greatest thing in the world.

— Alphonso Jackson

The more acquisitions the government makes abroad, the more taxes the people have to pay at home.

— Thomas Paine

Politicians they're so full of bullshit that their bullshit couldn't fit in a toilet if they tried.

— Jeremy Limn

“The American political experience can therefore be viewed as optimism in the collective.”

— Michael J. Fox

When I got into politics, it was a shock. People promise all sorts of things and then never deliver.

— Matt Gonzalez

I was a guy who trusted the government. Now, I don't trust a damn thing they do.

— Steven Hatfill

“Behind every good politician is a soft, cuddly teddy bear”

— Zach

“Wouldn't if be nice if our government, could make things beautiful because everybody cares!”

— Robert Armstrong

Do not try to play politics using the health of the public during a disaster.

— Pinarayi Vijayan

Half of us is easy, the other half is hard. Even though we do our best, we end up being scarred.

— Steve Winwood

The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.

— Aristotle

“Killing Tutsis was a political tradition in postcolonial Rwanda; it brought people together.”

— Philip Gourevitch

This is the new politics. Personal responsibility. Not leaving it to others. I am my planet's keeper.

— Hilary Benn