Politics Quotes · Page 417

I'm worried this season of Jersey Shore will be less embarrassing to America than our government.

— Anonymous

Governments must conform to the nature of the men governed.

— Giambattista Vico

Rude interviewers are ten a penny, and politicians have long since learned how to cope.

— Andrew Marr

If you're looking for ways to cut waste in government, you can start with John Prescott.

— George Osborne

The Church is not a political power, nor a political party, but rather a moral reality, a moral force.

— Pope Benedict XVI

I am raising my voice as a citizen of the country. I don?t want to enter politics.

— Aamir Khan

“If you vote for Barack Obama in 2012, you'll be doing exactly what the Republicans want you to do.”

— Michel Templet

I do not respect the Dalai Lama. He's a political power broker. The Dalai Lama is not honorable to me.

— Ashin Wirathu

[John Howard] led the Government. They had the numbers, and just basically automatically went along with the Americans.

— Bob Hawke

Either you're a political comedian or you're a stand-up. Just talking about politics isn't enough. People who talk about airplane food, you…

— Sam Seder

Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a…

— Anna Howard Shaw

I was young. I was 23 or 24. I just wasn't a fan of the politics of campaigning - of going into…

— Simon Helberg

“Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-old debates about the role of government for all time — but it does require…

— Barack Obama

The government shouldn't be involved in this because it's very simple. If you don't believe in same-sex marriage, then don't marry somebody…

— Wanda Sykes

Career politicians do not have the courage to prioritize spending and say no to demanding special interest groups who do not reflect…

— Tom Coburn

I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is all I need from life.

— Narendra Modi

There is a cannibalism that's loose in our society in which public figures such as the Clintons could try to come into…

— David Gergen

The government simply waits for farmers to grow their crops - nine months of growing grapes, then two to three weeks of…

— David Fahrenthold

“More importantly, as comedians, our job is to say what is on our minds. Unfiltered and un-focus-group-tested. That’s what drives me nuts…

— Adam Carolla

You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal. ... Government contains impure ingredients - as anybody who's looked…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Landowners and influential men of all kinds, especially members of political councils, ought to set an example to the people. The young…

— Chiang Kai-shek

In Britain, a 'block list' of harmful Web sites, used by all the major Internet Service Providers, is maintained by a private…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

People who are ambitious - politicians who crave power - think that they're in control of it, but at some point, the…

— Ken Liu

You can have very big local government. By big, I mean very engaged government. Do you measure it in terms of the…

— Zephyr Teachout

If democracy is based on the people why force it [on Iraq]

— Loesje

Our existing media system today is the direct result of government laws and subsidies that created it.

— Anonymous

Everyone acknowledges that there is a political part to tenure, but no one likes to admit it.

— Priyamvada Natarajan

Never trust a government that doesn't trust its own citizens with guns.

— Benjamin Franklin

Religion should not be allowed to come into Politics…Religion is merely a matter between man and God.

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

It's perfectly possible for somebody to make the transition from politics to journalism.

— Brit Hume

“In politics, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas - no feelings, but interests.”

— Alexandre Dumas

With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.

— Theodore White

The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Without critical work, political awareness is likely to remain superficial and rhetorical.”

— Carter Heyward

My advice to any diplomat who wants to have good press is to have two or three kids and a dog.

— Carl T. Rowan

Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.

— Gerald R Ford

I am not the usual film star who enters politics just for the heck of it.

— Kirron Kher

Never lose your temper with the Press or the public is a major rule of political life.

— Christabel Pankhurst

The root cause of poverty is social injustice and the bad government that abets it

— Colin Powell

Some politicians are in so long they completely lose touch with reality.

— Rick Harrison