Politics Quotes · Page 412

I am not a political figure, nor do I want to be one; but I come with my heart.

— Princess Diana

“Imagine being the 'party of law and order' and having a convicted felon at the top of your ticket.”

— Carlos Wallace

In the present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem

— Ronald Reagan

I don't have my pilot's licence anymore, but I'm still very political.

— Mathias Rust

We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation.

— Paul Wellstone

If you watch the news, you see politicians use human vulnerabilities to get in and earn people's trust.

— Morena Baccarin

He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future.

— George Orwell

Under government ownership corruption can flourish just as rankly as under private ownership.

— Theodore Roosevelt

“If the United States sinks into political paralysis, its epitaph could well be, “government of the people, by the people, for the…

— John Micklethwait

We've been living with this myth that somehow government investment in research has not been critical to economic growth.

— Ro Khanna

If cooperation among governments were the superior concept for progress in Europe, I'd be onboard immediately. But the problem is that cooperation…

— Martin Schulz

When it comes to labor and politics, I am inclined to be sympathetic to the left, but when it comes to the…

— Dorothy Day

We are the ones looking out for the middle class. Who do think pays for the endless expansion of government? Its middle…

— Scott Walker

Democracy functions better when donors push politicians to win campaigns based on their defining issues instead of using financial pressure for policy…

— Ari Melber

It's hard to make something as large as a government change. It's a little bit like building the transcontinental railroad.

— Tim O'Reilly

India is known for its sobriety and wisdom, balanced and sensible thinking. We need strong institutions and we need good governance in…

— Pratibha Patil

In terms of what I wanted to do before I got into politics, I was a businessman. I ran a company that…

— Raja Krishnamoorthi

I started writing novels while an undergraduate student, in an attempt to make sense of the city of Edinburgh, using a detective…

— Ian Rankin

Hate speech it seems to be is been defined by the political left as anything we don't like, anything that violates social…

— Milo Yiannopoulos

The Government should be held accountable if it puts soldiers at unnecessary risk, which is why it is vital to retain full…

— Dominic Raab

Things need to be properly named. Political confusion starts with terminology confusion. Islamism implies some sort of political and social plan for…

— Tariq Ramadan

“You submit to tyranny when you renounce the difference between what you want to hear and what is actually the case. This…

— Timothy Snyder

I believe that with the complete formation of the global Zionist network, they have seized control of the fate of the European…

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

We owe our troops more than rhetoric; we owe them a real plan. The Administration has yet to put forward a strategy…

— Dennis Cardoza

We have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it.

— Bella Abzug

Governments have budgets but no money, companies have money but no budgets.

— Shimon Peres

A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!

— Thomas Jefferson

Democracy is the only civilized way to govern a country.

— Ricardo Salinas Pliego

When you are going up the corporate ladder or the government ladder, you have to take some risk.

— Condoleezza Rice

One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies.

— Phil Ochs

Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.

— H. Rap Brown

The government has to spend money during a recession, because their spending is our earning.

— Linda Ronstadt

Government has gotten too big, and it's infringed on our liberty and freedom.

— Kathy Szeliga

What you eat is the most political thing you do every day

— Jeanette Winterson

We have given a government where people feel safe... we gave Dalits a life of dignity.

— Mayawati

Too many women in too many countries speak the same language, of silence...

— Anonymous

If you begin by saying, 'Thou shalt not lie,' there is no longer any possibility of political action.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.

— Malcolm X

I can describe to you the taste of government cheese.

— John Scalzi

The war on drugs is really the war on people who buy drugs from people who don't lobby the government.

— Stefan Molyneux