Politics Quotes · Page 394

The Left loves the poor so much it creates more of them every time it gets into power.

— Silvio Berlusconi

“In the politics of the every day, our words and gestures, or their absence, count very much.”

— Timothy Snyder

A monetary order created and managed by politicians and officials is bound to disappoint.

— Hans F. Sennholz

In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top

— Benjamin Franklin

Democracy, good governance and modernity cannot be imported or imposed from outside a country.

— Anonymous

“Politicians think the only way out of a hole is to keep digging.”

— Jarod Kintz

“They’re politicians,’ Win said. ‘They’d lie and evade if you asked them what they had for breakfast.”

— Harlan Coben

Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.

— Thucydides

No one is born a Communist... in the Soviet Union farmers keep on looking in the barn for their horses even after…

— Nikita Khrushchev

“The aim is not therefore to liberate some 'essential self' by throwing off the burden of government and the State, but to…

— Peter Marshall

The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.

— Andrew Jackson

America's greatness is not found in the size of its government. America's greatness resides in the hearts and the minds of the…

— Rick Perry

One of my goals upon becoming Secretary of State was to take diplomacy out of capitals, out of government offices, into the…

— Hillary Clinton

The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, and this without any qualification as to their…

— St. George Tucker

I have very little experience of self-government. In fact, I am one of the most governed people in the world.

— Prince Philip

I think politics is a dirty game. We've seen the sides that they take; we've seen the commentary they have had on…

— Donald Trump, Jr

Amazon is certainly not a perfect company. However, doctors, teachers, engineers, journalists, politicians, and labor unions are also on a continuum of…

— John Mackey

Sometimes I get slammed because I work at Fox and I am black. People are like, 'How could you work there? Who…

— Harris Faulkner

I really worry about these political people that have no personal life. If there's nothing that's lovely, and if there's nothing that's…

— Arundhati Roy

“You see, it is my passionately held belief that the right to possess property is at best a contingent one. When disparities…

— Mohsin Hamid

The story of Detroit's bankruptcy was simple enough: Allow capitalism to grow the city, campaign against income inequality, tax the job creators…

— Ben Shapiro

“And then I heard the ring of metal on concrete, and I went cold, because one of them had found a piece…

— Rachel Caine

In medicine, it has long been recognized that even a quack remedy that is harmless in itself can be fatal when it…

— Thomas Sowell

Were the radical democratic impulses of the American Revolution still driving US politics, it would be difficult to imagine corporatization of the…

— Ben Manski

Frankly, health care and politics are 'inextricably intertwined.'

— Angela Braly

The flag still stands for freedom and they can't take that away.

— Lee Greenwood

I am more popular than many politicians, and even superstars like Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan.

— Rakhi Sawant

The main purpose of the Thatcher government was to sort out Britain's failing economy.

— Nick Boles

The major political event of the twentieth century is the death of socialism.

— Irving Kristol

Political debate is of no interest to me. What I want are practical solutions.

— Carole Bouquet

Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.

— Bill Gates

When politics are used to allocate resources, the resources all end up being allocated to politics.

— P. J. O'Rourke

If you maintain a consistent political position long enough, you'll eventually be accused of treason.

— Mort Sahl

The nation that leads the clean energy economy will be the nation that leads the global economy.

— Barack Obama

If we want our politics to be different, we need to be different.

— Madison Cawthorn

I think we are destined to live with coalition governments in the future.

— J. Jayalalithaa

“Politicians should be changed regularly, like diapers, and for the same reason.”

— Richard Davies

When I was quite young, I put my trust in God--not government; and I never get the two confused.

— Bob Dole

A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.

— Bertrand De Jouvenel

I think politicians are so far out of step with what people really want.

— Paul Weller