Politics Quotes · Page 414

There is no central government database that allows officials to monitor water tests by local systems.

— Charles Duhigg

Racism is not exclusive to one side of the political divide.

— Julia Hartley-Brewer

Money is becoming one of the most corrosive elements of politics.

— Trent Lott

Politics ain't worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

— Will Rogers

You can build a throne with bayonets, but it's difficult to sit on it.

— Boris Yeltsin

Protocol is etiquette with a government expense account.

— Anonymous

I believe government should be loyal to parents, teachers and children.

— J. C. Watts

I'm not a politician. My conscience has brought me before you. Give me a chance to serve you.

— Gurpreet Ghuggi

The House looks like more fun. It's like the Donahue show. The Senate is like one of those Sunday morning public service…

— Phil Donahue

“He took no interest in politics, which ruin the character and career, yet nothing can be achieved without them.”

— E.M. Forster

“We blame our bosses, the economy, our politicians, other people, or we write ourselves off as failures or our goals as impossible.…

— Ryan Holiday

I am in politics sincerely and selflessly without any command, demand, complaints or personal expectations.

— Shatrughan Sinha

“to be a government of "liberty regulated by law," with such results in the development of strength, in population, wealth, and military…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Political correctness is neither political nor is it correct. It amounts to social censorship, and the sooner we spit it out, the…

— Jeff Cooper

I don't think I can remember a moment in my life where people didn't discuss politics. People discuss politics at the table.

— Connie Nielsen

A number of politicians, including those within your own party, believe Germans would be safer if the German military didn't insert itself…

— Wolfgang Schauble

“Liberals tend to view traditions, policies, and morals of past generations as arbitrary designs put in place by less enlightened people. Because…

— John Hawkins

MoveOn loves government. It remains enamored of government spending as fuel for its liberal agenda; and anything that threatens to close that…

— Bob Barr

“Writing to his son in 1799, John Adams blamed America’s political turmoil on “a systematical dissolution of the true Family Authority. There…

— Alan Taylor

“The cultural and political conflicts in the contemporary world have much to do with the clash of the senses of dignity in…

— Qianfan Zhang

I think that many citizens understand how our system works, or rather, fails to work, for structural reasons. But who has the…

— Thomas Pogge

“While a major focus of this book is fear mongering by journalists and others, throughout the chapters that follow I take note…

— Barry Glassner

Relationships are at the core of any political system and economic system - any family - and I think we drifted away…

— Hillary Clinton

The federal government overrules state laws where state laws permit medicinal marijuana for people dying of cancer. The federal government goes in…

— Ron Paul

The courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government.

— William Weld

“John Jay put it as bluntly as possible: “Those who own the country ought to govern it.”

— Anonymous

I've been so focused on state government, I haven't really focused much on the war in Iraq.

— Sarah Palin

“A successful marriage is coalition governance that has many compromises and sacrifices.”

— Marcus Khaleeq

I don't think my political opinions, to the extent I have them, are useful.

— Steve Kornacki

The church is not a political power; it's not a party, but it's a moral power.

— Pope Benedict XVI

To get people emotionally involved in something intellectual and political is important.

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

The real question is "Why should we make an exception for billionaire politicians?". We should not.

— Tulip Siddiq

“Taking on Washington was the fastest way to commit political suicide in the revolutionary era.”

— Joseph J. Ellis

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.

— Henry David Thoreau

Too many Americans are dependent on federal government.

— Jim DeMint

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

— Henry David Thoreau

I often traveled to Nicaragua to speak against repressive policies by the Sandinista government.

— Bianca Jagger

If politicians lived on praise and thanks they'd be forced into some other line of business.

— Edward Heath

Peace depends ultimately not on political arrangements but on the conscience of mankind.

— Henry A. Kissinger

“Guns are not the problem. It is us that is the problem.”

— Keita Shimizu