Politics Quotes · Page 386

If you want to liberate a government, give them the Internet.

— Wael Ghonim

Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?

— Voltaire

College campuses were once a hotbed of political activity.

— Tom Ford

From politics to parenting, Christians have something to say.

— Monica Johnson

I got politics and economics moving and then others took over.

— Lech Walesa

You know, it was only a generation ago that actors couldn't be buried in the churchyard.

— Ronald Reagan

We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government.

— Albert Schweitzer

It is part and parcel of politics that you forget whatever has happened and move on to the future.

— J. Jayalalithaa

To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound…

— June Jordan

“critics are extremely insecure. they don't really know what's going on, they're democrats when it comes to politics but fascists when it…

— Paolo Coelho

Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better…

— Cal Thomas

In politics, readily dismissing inconvenient people can easily extend to dismissing inconvenient truths about them.

— Daniel Goleman

Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.

— Jesse Jackson

Any big organization can be subverted by governments or multinational special interests. They have the resources to cast doubt and fear over…

— Arlo Guthrie

I think as a consequence of that, there is also a fair amount of uncertainty about engaging in political activity that would…

— Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu

“Beyond manipulation itself there was no object or subject of politics. There was only the darkness that is consummate when gifted minds…

— Timothy Snyder

You don’t know what order with freedom means! You only know what revolt against oppression is! You don’t know that the rod,…

— Gustav Landauer

“In the United States, the two-party system works as a way to manufacture an artificial group identity, akin to an ethnic or…

— Jason F. Stanley

Selection [of UN delegates] by governments cannot give the peoples of the world the feeling of being fairly and proportionately represented. The…

— Albert Einstein

What we are seeing in cities such as Chicago, Athens and other dead zones of capitalism throughout the world is the beginning…

— Henry Giroux

It depends on the consent of the people to decide whether kings or consuls or other magistrates are to be established in…

— Robert Bellarmine

“No one can imagine the kind of pressure being president of the U.S. imposes on an individual and how easily a president…

— Ronald Kessler

As I've said many times, the nuclear deal was never intended to resolve all of our differences with Iran. But still, engaging…

— Barack Obama

The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human…

— James Madison

I know the media likes to personalize political debates, and I know the government will demonize me.

— Edward Snowden

Any politician who's ever been re-elected knows that friends come and go; enemies accumulate.

— Jim Cooper

In art, religion, and politics the respect must be mutual, no matter how violent the disagreement.

— Vincent Price

No government or social system is so evil that its people must be considered as lacking in virtue.

— John F. Kennedy

The Liberal Democrats will add a heart to a Conservative government and a brain to a Labour one.

— Nick Clegg

If you lead, you will eventually serve with Judas or Peter.

— Dan B. Allender

Prosecuting me as an elected politician for expressing the opinions of my constituents is absurd.

— Geert Wilders

I have long believed that the first duty of government is to protect the safety of our citizens.

— William Barr

The typical presidential staff resents the vice-president even more than they do the first lady.

— Dick Morris

Politicians generally respond to who is going to help them get elected and re-elected.

— Michael Bloomberg

Every government, every country, has the right to exercise force when necessary.

— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

Our Constitution, which was intended to limit government power and abuse, has failed,

— Ron Paul

A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination.

— David Horowitz

A lot of songs we've written have been political, but they're also personally political.

— Curt Smith

I understand that bureaucracy, hierarchy and managing politics is not easy.

— Gautham Menon

Politics is agony and ecstasy. The highs are amazing. The lows are excruciating.

— Pierre Poilievre