Politics / Government Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

747 Politics / Government Quotes
“I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns, and women join the unqualified men in running our government.”
Cissy Farenthold Quotes
“If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.”
Emma Goldman Quotes
“My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.”
Jesse Jackson Quotes
“Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.”
Lady Bird Johnson Quotes
“A recent conversation: Dubya: Look at the clock, time is racing! Cheney: That's the second hand, George.”
Dennis Miller Quotes
“'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.”
Thomas Paine Quotes
“We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.”
Dan Quayle Quotes
“What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?”
Jose Saramago Quotes
“Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.”
William E. Simon Quotes
“I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.”
Oliver Stone Quotes
“I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.”
Margaret Thatcher Quotes
“A right without an attendant responsibility is as unreal as a sheet of paper which has only one side.”
Felix Morley Quotes
“The common good comes before the private good.”
Nazi Slogan Quotes
“Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.”
Thomas Sowell Quotes
“Social justice is a semantic fraud from the same stable as People's Democracy.”
C. Curran Quotes
“Envy plus rhetoric equals "social justice.".”
Thomas Sowell Quotes
“No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: "But what would you replace it with?" When you put out a fire, what do you replace it with?”
Thomas Sowell Quotes
“The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer's money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has made things worse. The black family- which survived slavery, discrimination, poverty, wars and depressions- began to come apart as the federal government moved in with its well-financed programs to "help.".”
Thomas Sowell Quotes
“Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.”
Robert Heinlein Quotes
“There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.”
Robert Heinlein Quotes
“...we are apt to forget that the vast majority of men and women who fell under the totalitarian spell was activated by unselfish motives, ready to accept the role of martyr or executioner, as the cause demanded.”
Arthur Koestler Quotes
“When the people have no tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.”
Lord Lytton Quotes
“So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though that war involves the acquisition of immense new provinces.”
Havelock Ellis Quotes
“Don't talk to me about atrocities in war; all war is an atrocity.”
Lord Kitchener Quotes
“War is a ritual, a deadly ritual, not the result of aggressive self-assertion, but of self-transcending identification. Without loyalty to tribe, church, flag or ideal, there would be no wars.”
Arthur Koestler Quotes
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