Politics Quotes · Page 594

The aim of my government is to set up an industrial park at Dhamra. It will bring more investments to the state.

— Naveen Patnaik

If I was not serious about politics, I would not have left behind my successful career to become a politician.

— Ravi Kishan

Science differs from politics or religion, in precisely this one discipline: we agree in advance to simply reject our own findings when…

— Robert Pollack

My family has always said... if you're going to get into politics, do it for the right reasons, not because you've got…

— George P. Bush

The toughest thing to do in politics is to do the right thing when your supporters think the right thing is something…

— Pat Toomey

The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed…

— Amy Goodman

Growing inequality is exacerbated by the companies who simply treat workers as commodities, and our governments are cowered by their demands to…

— Sharan Burrow

Political economy has only become a science since it has been confined to the results of inductive investigation.

— Jean-Baptiste Say

My parents called themselves progressives. The agenda was a Soviet America...the slogan of the communist party in those days was peace, jobs,…

— David Horowitz

There is a long and honorable tradition of citizens in service to their nation that goes back at least as far as…

— Tom Clancy

The government is indeed an institution, but "the market" is nothing more than an option for each individual to chose among numerous…

— Thomas Sowell

Ought to have a universal compulsory force to move and arrange each part in the manner best suited to the whole. Just…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The first question for me is: Are same-sex unions ‘marriages’? I’m against discrimination, I’m against hatred, I’m in favor of marriage equality,…

— Maggie Gallagher

We are now to rank among the nations of the world; but whether our Independence shall prove a blessing or a curse…

— George Mason

We're not a socialist country, because the socialists believe in government ownership in the means of production, but the fascists believe that…

— Thomas Sowell

But, more than anything, in the more than three years of this Government's existence, the Israeli people has proven that it is…

— Yitzhak Rabin

“He was a consummate politician-- which is to say he was given to expedient speech and lacked even a vestigial spine.”

— Nick Taylor

[W]e're taught that if one person kills another person, that is murder; but if a government kills a hundred thousand persons, that…

— Howard Zinn

“You did a politics project on a government that got overthrown on the due date? Man, did anybody ever tell you you've…

— Gordon Korman

Gun control means control. It means control for the government and the government starts controlling the people.

— Luke Scott

Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.

— George Pataki

I have learned from experience that, in the bluff and counterbluff of world politics, to draw a hostile war lord as a…

— Anonymous

A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.

— Andre Malraux

What makes him think a middle aged actor [Clint Eastwood], who's played with a chimp, could have a future in politics?

— Ronald Reagan

“Corporate governments have a long and established history of not prosecuting government officials that have been involved in blatant frauds.”

— Steven Magee

Land of snap decisions, land of short attention spans, nothing is savored long enough to really understand.

— Joni Mitchell

I'm more patriotic than I am political - I appreciate politics but I'm not quite too sure if that's a road I'm…

— Dwayne Johnson

The American people are not just being taxed to death; they're being taxed after death. But, no one should have to sell…

— J. D. Hayworth

I've seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but I've seen more of them who were paralyzed in the head.

— George C. Wallace

That is not my wallet miss, yeah, I'm big headed but don't make it so obvious. I'm traveling the globe now, working…

— Pac Div

“There’s always going to be a criminal element in the population. At least as long as people believe they need politicians.”

— Jarod Kintz

I am not at all a politician. I don't think I'm cut out for politics. I am certainly not going to stand…

— Pervez Musharraf

You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

— Aristophanes

“Thus we swallow politics with every meal. We take a mouthful and read a telegram, one eye on table, the other on…

— George W. Cable

Our country is blessed with a democratic political system that is sensitive to the wishes of our people.

— Denzil Douglas

It's been 35 years since I left school. Almost nine of them were in government; all the rest were in the private…

— Joe Lhota

In Davos during the WEF, we have government heads like David Cameron, Shinzo Abe, Tony Abbott, and Dilma Rousseff. These are the…

— Richard Quest

Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all…

— Martha Gellhorn

I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics...that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid. We…

— Alain Badiou