Politics Quotes · Page 733

I understand that show business people can wear the public a bit thin when it comes to politics. I know they wear…

— Clint Howard

As a former teacher, it pains me to watch such an essential and rewarding profession suffer due to government neglect.

— Layla Moran

We fought for freedom together. We had no government, no weapons to help us. We defeated such a big empire without any…

— Narendra Modi

“It was a politician’s gesture—a vulgar public gesture by a man who in private, among his own kind, would take wincing pains…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“The simple truth? History was never simply history. If it was anything it was another collar—another means to control.”

— Chris Galford

A baby changes your dinner party conversation from politics to poops [very pleasant thanks for that mental image Maurice!]

— Mo Johnston

Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

— Michel De Certeau

The question is not whether personal spiritual beliefs shape a politician's values and policies, but what spiritual beliefs mold those values and…

— Robert Jeffress

“If they hate your race, pardon them. If they hate your religion, enlighten them. If they hate your gender, admonish them. If…

— Matshona Dhliwayo

If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the Constitution. Instead, read selected portions of the Washington telephone directory…

— George F Will

Well, I'm not a member of the permanent political establishment, and I've learned quickly these last few days that if you're not…

— Sarah Palin

As more wealth and political power is amassed - as bitcoins rise in value - Congress and various lobbying groups will be…

— Max Keiser

[In government] the constant aim is to divide and arrange the several offices in such a manner as that each may be…

— James Madison

“Through a carefully cultivated display of intimidation to anyone who contemplated a meaningful challenge, the government had striven to show people around…

— Glenn Greenwald

Churchmen are quick to defend religious freedom; lawyers were never so universally aroused as by President Roosevelt's Court bill; newspapers are most…

— Earl Warren

The Second Amendment is not about duck hunting, and I know I'm not going to make very many friends saying this, but…

— Suzanna Hupp

They're such hierarchical things, film sets, they're sort of mini societies. Often they're incredibly political places.

— Eddie Redmayne

Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends.

— James Bovard

If our governments are so compromised that they will not tell us the truth, then we must step forward to grasp it.

— Sara Harrison

We all have a responsibility to make sure everyone - including companies, governments, and researchers - develop AI with diversity in mind.

— Fei-Fei Li

“In my judgment, we suffer quite as much from exaggerated, hysterical, and untruthful or slanderous statements in the press as from any…

— Peter Hartshorn

History's lesson, of course, is that attempts to suppress free expression have merely confirmed the caricaturists' original critique of heavy-handed and objectionable…

— Nazanin Boniadi

There's nothing new about the government protecting corporations and calling it the freeing of the world or bringing democracy to bereft nations.

— Henry Rollins

My definition of a 'friend' is, coming from Chicago, someone who says, 'Yeah, sure. You know what? Let's talk about what we…

— David Mamet

Too often, we see people who are prevented from practicing their religion because of a government mandate.

— Carly Fiorina

You, me...we own this country. Politicians are employees of ours…And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them…

— Clint Eastwood

“Governments accountable to the voters focus on building roads and schools—not weapons of mass destruction.”

— George W. Bush

I find that government can be a kind of gangsterism and is in Russia. And is likely to be in America if…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

I grew up on a farm. I didn't have health insurance until I was 24 years old. So, I didn't even know…

— Marlin Stutzman

Personal responsibility: We would need less government if we took more responsibility for our own lives.

— Anonymous

We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate…

— Alexander Hamilton

Corruption is a cancer that steals from the poor, eats away at governance and moral fibre and destroys trust.

— Robert Zoellick

Jayalalitha cannot be misled about anything. She is one of the most well informed persons today in Indian politics.

— Subramanian Swamy

“When a child goes missing, do not all the best hunters go looking in the woods, therefore a child did not go…

— Moonn Tzu

I regard reduction in Federal spending as one of the most important issues in this campaign. In my opinion it is the…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Politics is far more complex and difficult than other professions, as it involves takeover of your own personal life.

— Atishi

If all of us would require the same level of performance from ourselves as we expect from government, this city will forever…

— Jane Byrne

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. What satire on government can equal the severity…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Even the aesthetic activities of political opposites are one in their enthusiastic obedience to the rhythm of the iron system.”

— Theodor Adorno

We have built a government so large and so expensive here in Washington that not even the richest economy in the history…

— Marco Rubio