Politics Quotes · Page 389

“Well, in war, you can only be killed once. But in politics, many times.”

— Winston Churchill

“When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.”

— Anaïs Nin

The definition of a gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.

— Michael Kinsley

I strongly believe the Government are listening to everything we say.

— Scarlett Moffatt

Connecting with people is an important part of my role [as a politician].

— Helen Zille

In the world of movie personalities the distance between popularity and politics is short.

— Shirley Temple

Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future.

— Dick Morris

If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.

— Stephen Harper

This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband…

— Kate Millett

The role of money in politics is terrible, particularly when you're running for president. You get a handful of billionaires who can…

— John Kasich

Netizens and site operators must find ways to police themselves in order to keep government interference to a minimum.

— Sucheta Dalal

Free enterprise, individual opportunity, limited government. They made America great; only they can keep America strong.

— Reince Priebus

I fear some of our leaders today have lost the courage to stand up. What we have now are politicians. They won't…

— Susana Martinez

There are a lot of goals and ambitions that I have in life, things I want to accomplish. Who knows? I mean…

— Tim Tebow

Terrorism and the refugee crisis have changed the political mood in the West and brought the extreme right to prominence there.

— Jamal Khashoggi

The early idealists and companies and governments have all assumed that the Internet will bring freedom. Yet China proves that this is…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

The only way to get change is not through the courts or — heaven forbid — the politicians, but through a change…

— Leslie Marmon Silko

Certainly, if we believe in democracy and democratic systems, when [Benazir Bhutto] failed to pass any legislation, really, at all in her…

— Fatima Bhutto

We don't have a state, neither in Gaza nor in the West Bank. Gaza is under siege and the West Bank is…

— Ismail Haniyeh

Vajpayeeji's time was a time of mutual respect and understanding, irrespective of how small or big a party you are. In fact,…

— Naveen Patnaik

“I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute - where no Catholic prelate would tell the…

— John F. Kennedy

“My argument in this book is that embracing the idea of the subject-in-process, far from depoliticizing feminism, breathes new political life into…

— Moya Lloyd

“I am not arguing that everything is political, which would, by making politics ubiquitous, render it a meaningless category. I am also…

— Moya Lloyd

“It wasn’t just sports announcers and political pundits who radically revised their narratives, or shifted focus, so that their stories seemed to…

— Michael Lewis

I could never be a politician because at this point I would just be yelling are you fUCKING KIDDING ME

— Ramandeep Singh

Well, the federal government has a responsibility to provide leadership in bringing together provinces.

— Jagmeet Singh

I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible.

— Benjamin Disraeli

In politics a man must learn to rise above principle.

— American Proverb

“The FDA and the EPA are supposed to be protecting us, not the people who make the poison.”

— Kenneth Eade

Politics is like driving. To go backward put it in R. To go forward put it in D.

— Tom Harkin

I think politicians in America don't speak up because their local lobbyist has them shut up.

— Donald Trump

“Historical accuracy often fell victim when it came to matters of political or religious convenience.”

— H. L. Tinsley

“How can you have a war on terrorism while war itself is terrorism!”

— HOWARD ZINN

If we tried to write about politics, you'd realize that we're all a bunch of idiots.

— Mark Hoppus

The political left has been weak on protecting society from criminals for more than two centuries.

— Thomas Sowell

I know that for most people, seeing is believing when it comes to government efficiency.

— George P. Bush

It's just as political, what you do in the bedroom is just as political as what you do in public.

— Christopher Bollen

I'm an easy target because of my political opinions.

— Sean Connery

“value of monarchy as a conciliatory, if waning, force in European politics.”

— Charles Emmerson

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time.

— Martin Luther King, Jr