Politics Quotes · Page 411

It is easy to overthrow a government but very difficult to build a new one.

— Pearl S. Buck

The Bible says that God puts government on earth to punish evildoers. Not good-doers. Evildoers.

— Rick Warren

Immigration is the most explosive issue I've seen in my political career.

— Mark McKinnon

You dont have to be a political genius to sniff the smell of blood in the water.

— Rich Galen

Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible.

— Frank Herbert

The real art of governing consists, so far as possible, in doing nothing.

— Laozi

I'm as far outside of the mainstream political establishment as you can get.

— Kane

Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.

— Youssou N'Dour

Under the right conditions, gay people can become politicians and be in control of their lives in a much broader way through…

— Daayiee Abdullah

Sing your praise of progress and the doom machine, the naked truth is still taboo whenever it can be seen.

— Bob Dylan

Politics are about power; we cannot evade that truth or its consequences. We dream of a better world but it is in…

— D. W Brogan

“I know that compared to industries, corporations, and governments, an individual is insignificant. In measureable terms my actions hardly matter. But feeling…

— Wendy Tremayne

No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford…

— James Bryce

Governments would rather spend their money on another bomber than education, and why do we fear black men when every bit of…

— Jeremy Clarkson

I think the governments need to encourage internet companies and convince them that they can be extremely profitable without necessarily spiraling out…

— Ramesh Srinivasan

We will meet our challenges head on and we will do it by rejecting the politics of mediocrity and corruption. You voted…

— Rod Blagojevich

In matters of religion, I have considered that its free exercise is placed by the Constitution independent of the powers of the…

— Thomas Jefferson

What is political correctness, if not essentially redemptive speech? Soon liberalism had become a cultural identity that offered Americans a way to…

— Shelby Steele

Changing the way we talk is not political correctness run amok. It reflects an admirable willingness to acknowledge others who once were…

— David Plotz

Because once the black man becomes the political master of his own community, it means that the politicians of that community will…

— Malcolm X

I don't know much about politics, but you have to look at it with the bigger picture and think what's best for…

— Mo Farah

I would like to be a part of a community of women, and help women be empowered, but I think I'm not…

— Rickie Lee Jones

“The central government was a despotism tempered by military rebellion and assassination and replacement of one scurvy lot of ruling dynasts by…

— Norman F. Cantor

When you own gold you're fighting every central bank in the world. That's because gold is a currency that competes with government…

— James Rickards

In politics, as in fishing, you don't have to be a genius. You just have to be smarter than the fish.

— Ze'ev Chafets

I have my own political views and ideologies, but will not enter politics for sure.

— Sreenivasan

For even the most seasoned observers of American politics, Barack Obama is a phenomenon.

— David Lammy

One is that President Clinton, in his first two years of his term, did not govern as he had campaigned.

— Ed Gillespie

U.S. politicians are increasingly recognizing the relevance of the Hispanic vote in U.S. politics.

— Enrique Pena Nieto

I don't know how you can govern without ever compromising.

— Mike Coffman

I've been really at the highest levels of American political life.

— Hillary Clinton

I'm an elected politician. If you don't agree with me, vote for somebody else.

— Geert Wilders

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

— Joyce Cary

The government can afford to supply the military, but can't feed the poor people.

— Ace Hood

There are a few men whom slavery holds fast, but there are many more who hold fast to slavery.

— Seneca the Younger

Jeb Bush is my friend. I think he'd make a great president. I've nudged him for some time.

— John Boehner

You call it a 'loophole' when the government still allows you some freedom.

— Ludwig von Mises

We ought to be more focused on enemies without than preoccupied with finding them within.

— Alan Wolfe

Big, expensive government is not the answer for people without disabilities, nor is it for those with.

— Cathy McMorris Rodgers

At a time when political correctness is valued over honesty I would also like to say, 'Right on!

— Madonna Ciccone