Politics Quotes · Page 438

War is often about making the least-worst decision. The same could be said about politics. But the stakes are higher in war,…

— Mark McKinnon

During my twenties and thirties, my interest in the political poem increased as my apparent access to it declined. I sensed resistances…

— Eavan Boland

The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen…

— Anonymous

I've never wanted to become a politician, an interior decorator, I've never wanted to speculate and make a load of money. I…

— Terence Stamp

If you want to change the way your banking system is regulated, if you want to learn the mistakes of what's gone…

— George Osborne

For government consists in nothing else but so controlling subjects that they shall neither be able to, nor have cause to do…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Providing records in a timely manner is the least the federal government can do for the men and women who have selflessly…

— Ronny Jackson

The interference of a foreign country in our elections is an assault on the government of the United States.

— Heather Cox Richardson

Monetary reform, if it is to be genuine and successful, must sever money and banking from politics. That's why a modern gold…

— Lawrence Reed

I love my country, by which I mean I am indebted joyfully to all the people throughout its history, who have fought…

— Ani DiFranco

For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of…

— Carol Bellamy

“History is supposed to be an accurate, and full, account of what actually happened. Politics is never about what actually happened. Politics…

— Neale Donald Walsch

I was influenced by the political environment of our country that has just gained freedom from British colonialism. And the seminal figures…

— Deepak Chopra

“What is so often said about the solders of the 20th century is that they fought to make us free. Which is…

— Stefan Molyneux

For the people in government,rather than the people who pester it, Washington is an early-rising, hard-working city. It is a popular delusion…

— Anonymous

We used to fight for democracy. Democracy used to matter. We now treat it with contempt. We have turned our backs on…

— Nigel Farage

There will be no silence from Canada. Our friendship has no limit. Generation after generation we have traveled many difficult miles together…

— Jean Chretien

Political correctness has changed everything. People forget that political correctness used to be called spastic gay talk.

— Frankie Boyle

There can be no good character in civil government if there is none in the people. You cannot make a good omelet…

— R.J. Rushdoony

The government can destroy wealth but it cannot create wealth, which is the product of labor and management working with creation.

— Bill Murray

Well, It's a Communist country, and the Communists do not reward personal initiative...except by execution.

— Tom Clancy

There is little doubt that our society is changing rapidly, but one thing will never change as long as we remain a…

— Max Boot

The responsibility of political philosophy that tries to engage with practice is to be clear, or at least accessible.

— Michael Sandel

The world can never be in the state of right order, strong government, and good influence unless London is truly and literally…

— Kedar Joshi

The media understands the system only on the basis of ministers and governments. It seldom sympathises with the people who work within…

— Ravish Kumar

Politics now is really only about self-interest, which means it has violence built into it because your self-interest is going to collide…

— Pankaj Mishra

A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

— Melvin Laird

Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it…

— Tony Blair

“. . . and so the whorl ends not with a bang or with a whimper, but with the sound of two…

— Tyler McMahon

There are two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible.

— Alec Douglas-Home

Has the center of gravity shifted such that all governments have greater powers and fewer restrictions than they ever had, and are…

— Edward Snowden

Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it…

— Plutarch

Now if you shoot someone, sir, you can get off Scott free. It's the latest thing Mr. Lincoln, can you believe?

— Hank Williams, Jr

I'm a big believer in,'If anyone can understand my politics, I've failed.' If you can get a sense of which side of…

— Taylor Sheridan

The only thing that holds the government back from just going ballistic on us is the Second Amendment. When we become disarmed,…

— Derrick Grayson

“I have the feeling you would much rather be on the front than in Adopest trying to win over the snakes in…

— Brian McClellan

I don't seek controversy. I don't seek to antagonize. Sometimes it happens, but I'm not there to argue politics.

— Marc Maron

A politician who enters public life may as well face the fact that the best way of not being found out is…

— Lord Hailsham

Silence is not an effective political strategy, and what we do if we silence the public interest, which is so hard to…

— Jill Stein

There isn't a political price to be paid yet for doing nothing. People need to get upset with President Bush. People need…

— Nicholas D. Kristof