Politics Quotes · Page 403

I wouldn't characterize my work, however, as directly political.

— Suzanne Vega

I love being a parliamentarian. I love it but I don't like politics. And I hate elections.

— Elizabeth May

Music is politics - it always has been and it always will be.

— Thea Gilmore

The war against terrorism will not be finished as long as he [Saddam Hussein] is in power.

— Christopher Dodd

There are so many demands on your time, on your resources, and on the prestige of the government.

— Brian Mulroney

I turned off the talking politicos. Too much jabbering at each other. Not enough care about humans.

— Leonard Nimoy

I don't know if I can live on my income or not - the government won't let me try it.

— Bob Thaves

We're a democratic society. Shutting down the government should not be on the agenda.

— Alan Greenspan

Government intervention is not solving the problems, and in fact the governments around the world that are intervening the most in their…

— Oliver DeMille

Kirsten Gillibrand and I are very similar in our biographies. We're both mothers, we're both lawyers. But we couldn't be more different…

— Wendy Long

Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. Politicians are the same all over.…

— Nikita Khrushchev

We need a Peace Department in our national government to do extensive research on peaceful ways of resolving conflicts. Then we can…

— Peace Pilgrim

I'm politically interested, but I have no particular talent as a political beast, stepping out and running for office.

— Werner Herzog

We create the government that screws you, and then you're supposed to thank us for protecting you from it.

— Vin Weber

Scientists have reaped rich rewards, they have sat high in government councils and have been blinded by the attractiveness of public life-all…

— Frank Press

If a huge number of people call for change, the government will have to react. If you want to avoid uprisings, or…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

Social and political issues in general seem to me fairly simple; the effort to obfuscate them in esoteric and generally vacuous theory…

— Noam Chomsky

National security is a place where the private sector could be helpful because the government is woefully behind the technology curve. But…

— Carly Fiorina

The art of politics, under democracy, is simply the art of ringing it. Two branches reveal themselves. There is the art of…

— H. L. Mencken

While the World Bank is an inter-governmental institution, drawing its funds from member governments and run by a board of directors nominated…

— Sanjaya Baru

The truth is that sometimes art may not exactly reflect one's personal politics, but the story, the drama, the thing you're trying…

— Tim Minear

Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and techniques, can rescue us from the troubles…

— Henry W. Kendall

Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and…

— Phyllis McGinley

No centralized government, no matter how big, how smart or how powerful, can effectively and efficiently control much of society in a…

— Charles Koch

The military destabilised my government on politically motivated charges.

— Benazir Bhutto

In politics, you must let the other person have your way.

— Claiborne Pell

To a British politician, a police officer is as invisible as the railings.

— A. A. Gill

Government by blackmail is incompatible with democracy.

— Jerrold Nadler

As we've always said, in politics the person with the biggest number wins.

— Wayne LaPierre

Florida A&M University was my first real introduction to politics as a heavyweight game.

— Andrew Gillum

The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.

— Milton Friedman

In America the press rules the countrty; it rules its politics, its religion, its social practices.

— E. W. Scripps

Public Interest is a term used by every politician to support his ideas.

— W. M. Kiplinger

One of our most noble political tasks is to open up trust.

— Gustav Heinemann

Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.

— Henry David Thoreau

Democracy is a very bad form of government ... but all the others are so much worse.

— Winston Churchill

I stay as far away from politics as possible, or any controversy.

— Usain Bolt

If man is not fit to govern himself, how can he be fit to govern someone else?

— James Madison

The political elite prefers to see criminals as victims in need of therapy and TLC.

— Munira Mirza

Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?

— Martin Luther King, Jr