Politics Quotes · Page 393

That's my real name. That's not like a gimmick or anything, that's my government name, Tierra Whack.

— Tierra Whack

Foreign aid breeds kleptocracies, or governments of thieves.

— James Bovard

I don't care who does the electing, as long as I get to do the nominating.

— Boss Tweed

I've been a conservative when it comes to budgeting issues and streamlining government.

— Brian Kemp

Let's not let the government sell us out. Let's fight for net neutrality.

— Al Franken

A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired.

— Alexander Hamilton

PUSH, n. One of the two things mainly conducive to success, especially in politics. The other is Pull.

— Ambrose Bierce

When a country's government is involved in something, no filmmaker tries to make a film on it.

— Vivek Agnihotri

The ultimate success of this government and the stability of its institutions, its progress in all that can make a nation honored,…

— Jon Lord

“Corporations and their government minions are capable of anything...just look at the frauds the recent wars became known as. Hundreds of thousands…

— Steven Magee

The need for Government is the need for force; where force is unnecessary, there is no need for Government.

— Rose Wilder Lane

History teaches us that, whatever we say, racists will always distort the words of mainstream politicians to make themselves sound more respectable.

— David Blunkett

“In despotic governments wars are the effect of pride; but in those governments in which they become the means of taxation, they…

— Thomas Paine

While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the…

— Abraham Lincoln

The politicians think the journalists have power, the journalists think bankers have power, bankers think lawyers have power. The truth is, nobody…

— Rory Stewart

What, then is law [government]? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense.

— Frederic Bastiat

America's greatness is due in no small measure to our system of government, in which power and authority are deliberately divided. The…

— Richard Allen Epstein

Until the 20th century, medicine was more like politics than physics. Its forecasts were often bogus and its record grim. In the…

— Dominic Cummings

It is not government's job to mandate responsibility on our behalf. We have the intelligence and good sense to make wise consumption…

— Anonymous

Birtherism surely increased Americans' distrust of politics, though in ways that are hard to pin down. By contrast, when anti-vaxxers persuade parents…

— Anne Applebaum

“The rich feel much less need than their predecessors to account for their wealth, whether to society, to governments or to God.…

— Anthony Sampson

The libertarian creed...offers the fulfillment of the best of the American past along with the promise of a far better future. Libertarians…

— Murray Rothbard

The reason I like incorporating the Yakuza into my movies - all their actions, everything they do, you can say 'It's ok…

— Takashi Miike

As the president of Estonia, I represent the only truly digital society which actually has a state; almost all our citizens' interactions…

— Kersti Kaljulaid

“Poverty can be brought about by law; it cannot be forbidden by law.”

— Isabel Paterson

Congress has oversight responsibility of the federal government.

— Jon Husted

If all politicians fished instead of spoke publicly, we would be at peace with the world.

— Will Rogers

Americans are sick and tired of political gamesmanship.

— Henry Waxman

To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.

— Milton Friedman

No one ever died from smoking marijuana, but millions of people have died by believing politicians.

— Harry Browne

The world wills itself to be deceived, so let it be deceived.

— Petronius

I am strongly committed to evidence-based policymaking across government.

— Michelle Lujan Grisham

If ever I left the House of Commons it would be because I wanted to spend more time on politics.

— Tony Benn

Politics is like waking up in the morning. You never know whose head you'll find on the pillow.

— Winston Churchill

I am not interested in politics at all. At home, around the dinner table, we never discuss politics.

— Columba Bush

All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.

— Richard Stallman

There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.

— Stokely Carmichael

I have always believed in cordial relationship with political parties and their leaders.

— Sharad Pawar

In American religious history, theological qualms tend to get pushed aside when politics intervenes.

— Rick Perlstein