Politics Quotes · Page 719

Giving people like Dodd and Frank more authority is like rewarding an arsonist with gasoline and matches.

— Daniel J. Mitchell

“I heard the Empire has a tyrannical and repressive government!" "What form of government is that?" said Ponder Stibbons. "A tautology," said…

— Terry Pratchett

“The perforated men and the women with square heads left Tim with the strong impression that the government should stick to issuing…

— Gregg Hurwitz

My difficulty with the whole right-left construct is that I don't think it describes modern politics or the modern choices that people…

— Leo Varadkar

Americans have always evinced some distrust of government, but the current situation has exacerbated this to a degree that may be unprecedented.

— Eric Alterman

“In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities.”

— Mark Twain

He who suffers wins in politics. The martyr does not obtain the victory personally, but his group, his successors, win in the…

— Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout…

— Anonymous

Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government intrusion. Repealing the worst provisions of the…

— Pete Stark

The point we are making is that the general global messages have been communicated, about the politics of South Africa, about the…

— Thabo Mbeki

“Government agents sardonically known as the Menstrual Police regularly rounded up women in their workplaces to administer pregnancy tests. If a woman…

— Steven D. Levitt

Politicians that proclaim big words without meaning rule in democracy. At best they allow themselves to discover that it's better to be…

— Janusz Korwin-Mikke

“Politics is a story about the relationship between the past and the future; history is a story about the relationship between the…

— Jill Lepore

I've always believed as a value that the government has a vital - not overwhelming, but vital - role to play in…

— Dick Gephardt

If President Obama has his way, you won't recognize the government, the free market system, or, frankly, America as you once knew…

— Bob Ehrlich

It's never a good thing to see a government agency talk in secret about the need to 'control protestors' - especially when…

— Michael Hastings

[the framers of the Constitution] intended our government should be a republic, which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy…

— Fisher Ames

This is for one simple reason: each Islamic mosque is dedicated to the overthrow of the American government.

— Bryan Fischer

For Russia, there is not and there may not be another political option but democracy. However, Russian democracy is... not at all…

— Vladimir Putin

Politicians get their power too late, and I think that he has inherited an impossible situation in which he is ill-equipped to…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

There's a political party in America that has an almost fanatical opposition to even the most minimal standards of gun safety -…

— Ritchie Torres

“For political matters Kennedy relied heavily on able strategists—critics called them the Irish Mafia—such as Kenneth O'Donnell and Lawrence O'Brien.”

— James T. Patterson

A government of fighters won't know how to lead, only create more war. You think bravery is measured in resistance.

— Maaza Mengiste

Every person seems to acknowledge his greatness. He blends together the profound politician with the scholar.

— William Pierce

“Two things which are the peculiar domain of the heart, not the mind—politics and religion. He doesn’t want to know the other…

— Mark Twain

Politics is so much about serendipity that we've got to have a bigger pool of women, so that when people drop out…

— Eleanor Clift

“General assumptions often lead to erroneous conclusions, but one cannot go far wrong in always assuming that whatever one's government is saying…

— Michel Templet

What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians.

— Bill Delahunt

There is a crisis that is not political - an epidemic of loneliness, of sadness - and we're completely unequal to dealing…

— Richard Flanagan

“In other words, Kant is assuming that since voters are generally reasonable people, they will vote for reasonable governments that will act…

— Mencius Moldbug

A lot of people are in politics to make friends, too, instead of making positive change. Theyre worried about getting re-elected.

— Jon Runyan

We can not continue to allow this over reliance on government to replace the cornerstone institution that has made the American experience…

— Marco Rubio

To run an effective political party you need a degree of tribalism, it's the glue that holds everyone together.

— Charles Kennedy

The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you…

— Chinua Achebe

There still is a war on women in terms of politicians in Washington and the state legislatures trying to eliminate any rights…

— Gloria Allred

The law is not abstract, impartially arbitrating between conflicting social classes; it is a tool in the hands of those who govern.

— Josephine Herbst

My father was a Republican and my mother was a Democrat. In Michigan, we always fought about sports, not politics.

— Elissa Slotkin

I entered beauty pageants in much the same spirit most people enter politics - with high ideals and ambitions. Similarly, I had…

— Elizabeth Ray

And let me say this as a politician I can promise you this, political leaders will never take risks if the people…

— Barack Obama

We are under [government's] control, and if people don't realize that, they haven't looked around. And if they're not paranoid, they haven't…

— Merle Haggard