Politics Quotes · Page 406

You can auction coal blocks. All natural resources of government should be auctioned.

— Subramanian Swamy

“Laws, enforced by the sword, control behavior but cannot change hearts.”

— Gregory A. Boyd

The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I never fear famous politicians, never fear the big parties, I only fear the people do not understand.

— Khem Veasna

“Ono je to těžké. Kde hrozí bída, tam hrozí socialismus. A kde hrozí socialismus, tam hrozí bída.”

— Alois Rašín

The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets.

— Rupert Murdoch

I try not to name too many labels - not because it's not cool, but because it starts getting political.

— Nelly

Elections are held to delude the populace into believing that they are participating in government.

— Anonymous

The CDU is willing to continue to take responsibility for our country. We want to do justice to the government mandate.

— Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his…

— Edmund Burke

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough…

— Anonymous

What we're witnessing really is a political realignment, I mean I think we're moving from a traditional understanding of left-right politics that…

— Ben Domenech

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

— Anonymous

As a politician, I engage with all kinds of opinions irrespective of whether they are in the media or not.

— Smriti Irani

It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually…

— Lester Bangs

I think that my foundation uses the money better than the government does. In any event, I do pay taxes.

— George Soros

It's pretty standard fare in political discourse. You misconstrue what somebody said. You isolate a statement, you lend your interpretation to it…

— John F. Kerry

A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined…

— John C. Calhoun

“From the end of the World War twenty-one years ago, this country, like many others, went through a phase of having large…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

We [Americans] continue to be harangued by politicians about how Americans must fight this war because we're being attacked because we have…

— Michael Scheuer

The continual whine of lamenting the burden of taxes, however successfully it may be practiced in mixed governments, is inconsistent with the…

— Thomas Paine

The image of the tormented man is taken and reproduced in the dirtiest political ways by the institutions of the church, and…

— Sorin Cerin

“Oh, would that I had died the way the Sikh did! I can not go forward. I shall not submit to being…

— Talbot Mundy

“The personal, as everyone’s so fucking fond of saying, is political. So if some idiot politician, some power player, tries to execute…

— Richard K. Morgan

We need to focus on the speed with which local governments can work with businesses.

— Muhtar Kent

The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.

— Will Rogers

A lot of people are very political when they are young, and then they outgrow it.

— Andrew Solomon

As soon as people drop the reins on government, government will leash the people.

— James Bovard

It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

— Jerry Brown

Politics is about who wins and loses. The rest is of marginal interest.

— Sean Wilentz

I think it's radical to censor information because the government asks you to. That's radical.

— Laura Poitras

I was pretty much the government's poster boy for what I had done.

— Kevin Mitnick

It is difficult to administer properly what belongs to all in common.

— Horace

Government is the agent of those who are too refined to do their own mugging.

— Joseph Sobran

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion.

— Jonathan Haidt

We can't do without government, but we do need it to be more effective.

— Jennifer Pahlka

Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.

— Paul Wellstone

The West Wing seems to be feeding the myth about how presidential politics are.

— William Devane

I've always had an interest in politics - I can't deny that.

— George P. Bush

Governments, systems, ideologies come and go, but it is humanity which remains.

— U Thant