Politics Quotes · Page 418

The way they are treating my people in the South, the government can go to hell!

— Louis Armstrong

“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.”

— Anonymous

Women have learned to flex their political muscles. You got to flex that muscle to get what you want.

— Shirley Chisholm

No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.

— Vladimir Lenin

I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.

— Harry S Truman

Democracy is the best form of the worst type of government

— Winston Churchill

The U.S. government engages with many countries around the world in official dialogues on human rights.

— Samantha Power

I keep an eye on politics, although I wouldn't say I'm political.

— Daisy Lowe

Antiracists must acknowledge that patriarchy has long been a weapon of racism and cannot sit comfortably in any politic of racial transformation.

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Politicians and leaders who see the media as 'the enemy within' divide society into two clashing cultural camps. Populist demagogues benefit from…

— Elif Safak

Why is it so hard to see that when America had high savings, low taxes and minimal government, the economy grew like…

— James Cook

I am interested in constitutional history, political history, the history of foreign affairs, but I think you can get at those subjects…

— Lucy Worsley

If wisdom in government eludes us, perhaps courage could substitute-the moral courage to terminate mistakes.

— Barbara Tuchman

There are just two rules of governance in a free society: Mind your own business. Keep your hands to yourself.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Government doesn't have to be the enemy, but too much government has produced a new kind of inequality in America: opportunity inequality.

— Marco Rubio

Bishops and judges are some of the best politicians in the world. They know how to manipulate the political process.

— David Blunkett

Not a few organizations exist in our country which function poorly. Sometimes it happens that this or that local government or organ…

— Joseph Stalin

For twelve successive Congresses we have appeared before committees of the two Houses making this plea, that the underlying principle of our…

— Susan B. Anthony

“Making the rich poorer does not make the poor richer, but it does make the state stronger—and it does increase the power…

— Keith Joseph

In the first place, the government ought not to be invested with power to control the affections, any more than the consciences…

— Lydia M. Child

The press of this countrty is now and always has been so thoroughly dominated by the wealthy few of the country that…

— E. W. Scripps

Education must be taken out of the hands of rich illiterates, third rate politicians, and put where it belongs: in the care…

— Katherine Anne Porter

Early rising is also essential to the good government of a family. A late breakfast deranges the whole business of the day,…

— Mary Randolph

I believe to go along to get along is unpatriotic. I believe that agreeing with your government on everything they do is…

— Jesse Ventura

We need real campaign finance reform to loosen the grip of special interests on politics.

— Tom Daschle

A grievance is a political action. It's not just African-Americans.

— Rush Limbaugh

Rumor: Weapons of mass hypnosis are found in the USA

— Loesje

The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside

— George Orwell

George Bush and his gang imagine they are being political geniuses.

— Kurt Vonnegut

They've also, the government's decided now, what sexual content is.

— Richard Serra

I'm pretty sure it was President Bill Clinton who brought me back into politics and following it.

— Michael Kelly

People like to do politics with me, and they like to do business.

— Terry McAuliffe

"Government" is the name we give to the things we choose to do together.

— Deval Patrick

“Self Government by extravagance and incompetence brings its own end.”

— Will Durant

Given a fair chance, human beings can govern themselves, and govern themselves better

— Aldous Huxley

I have a social philosophy; you have political opinions; he has an ideology.

— Clifford Geertz

Either we figure out how to keep corporate cash out of the political system or we lose the democracy.

— Molly Ivins

Drugs, killer roads and apathy of the government, all these issues forced me to join AAP.

— Gurpreet Ghuggi

This organization is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn't created to take you to heaven.

— Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr

I get lobbied by governments, schools, nurses, charities. It's not all a bad thing.

— Mike Quigley