Top 1200 Government And Politics Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

In every country today, there is politics. It may be authoritarian politics, but there is politics.

Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.

The leftists are constantly whining and moaning about all the money in politics. They want campaign finance reform, right? They want to get all the money out of politics. They want government money governing campaigns. They want all the money out, they say. But then you look at their coffers, and it's overflowing with hundreds of millions of dollars.

The Seanad question was one element of a process of change and reform to politics that government has been pursuing.

He made an enormous contribution to British politics in opposition and in government [on Robin Cook]

China's republican politics is like a child who just started schooling. He must have a good teacher and be surrounded by good friends. By the same token, the Chinese people, new to the republican politics, must be educated properly. The revolutionary government should be the people's tutor to impart advanced awareness and experience.

I came into politics because of my opposition to what a Tory Government was doing to the community I grew up in.

Politics and morality are inseparable. And as morality's foundation is religion, religion and politics are necessarily related. We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect, and our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive.

For me, coming from the women's movement, politics is not just about parties and parliament. There is politics in our private space and in gender relations as well. Wherever there's power, there's politics.

Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

I'm not naive. All politics is about identity, right? Neighborhood politics, cultural politics, issue politics. It's not as though I don't get that. It's just - it has to be, I think, tempered in a way that is for our overall advancement and not to our detriment or obliteration. When I say 'our,' I don't mean just communities of color.

There's a lack of ambition in politics in terms of what we expect from the government, what it means to have a state.

My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all.

The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.

Do we want an Attorney General who will play politics with the law, play politics with the court and just play politics with international conventions designed to protect our troops? I do not want to play that kind of politics. I am going to vote against Alberto Gonzales.

The war for the Internet has begun. Hollywood is in control of politics. The government is killing innovation.

A political satirist's job is to draw blood. I'm not so much interested in politics as I am in overthrowing the government.

If everybody just stops caring about politics, we're going to lose the reins on our government.

This is a basic function of Congress to keep the government running. And so, what we ought not to do is play politics with those who have been affected by disasters.

People always said you shouldn't get in politics and talk about politics. But I believe the politics are all around us.

The Latin root of the word 'politics' means 'of the people.' Politics is about something bigger than electoral politics; in that sense, I feel like I'm already involved.

In New York, politics is a crime scene from the very beginning. We have the most corrupt state government in the United States.

The word "politics" comes from the Greek politeia which had to do with the citizenry, not the government.

The Blair government has lowered the standing of politics and politicians in our country.

Almost all analysis of politics and government considers relatively surface phenomena.

To centralize power in the name of freedom is akin to putting a crime syndicate in charge of rooting out corruption. It is the normal state of politics that the more centralized it is, the more damage it does. Fast-track authority [for government-to-government trade agreements] centralizes power and is therefore part of the problem.

I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.

Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history ..... Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth

In politics things change, in politics timing is important, and in politics, how I move, I don't tell you.

The shape and composition of the government is important. We haven't reached a point where politics and economics have been totally divorced from each other.

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.

I think we all have a tendency to feel like, "Well, what can I do? I can't influence the government or politics in my country."

Once politics become a tug-of-war for shares in the income pie, decent government is impossible.

I am, as far as my politics reaches, 'King and Country' - no 'Innovations in Religion and Government' say I.

Government is like a vast ocean and politics is the six-inch layer on top.

Politics is a dirty business, but if you do not do politics, politics will be done to you.

There are two kinds of politics in the world: the politics of love and the politics of fear.

It is true that we need a consensus to go forward with restoring passenger rail in America, and often a consensus is formed by political action, via government. That is all true. But we have no such consensus, and no one in government or politics these days has the will or the force of personality or perhaps even the understanding of the situation to get on with job of forming a consensus supporting rail.

You can study government and politics in school, but the best way to really understand the process is to volunteer your time.

I don't even like the word politics. It implies something underhanded and I think we need less government.

What we ought not do is play politics with those who've been afflicted by disasters. This should not be controversial. Stop playing politics, do the right thing for the country and let's make sure we're not making politics with disaster relief.

Lots of people say politics is about individualism and egos. I happen to think government is best operated as a team.

I don't think I'd really talked about politics - governmental politics specifically - very often, and it was a bit of a stretch for me to do so for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is that I'm not that well-versed or educated in politics.

Because of the free speech clause in the First Amendment, which is very clear, "The government shall make no law abridging freedom of speech," and it literally is about political speech. You can say anything you want about politics, a candidate, and the government cannot stop you. And the Democrats hate that.

I decided to go into politics because of our Soviet-style government.

Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.

Only two things ever stop the government from doing anything: money and politics

Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals.

As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.

Meanwhile, politics is about getting a candidate in front of the public as a star, politics as rock'n'roll, politics as a movie.

Leaving politics was a good thing. I was spared a miserable Tory government where I might have ended up as leader.

In the language of politics, there is only one translation for the phrase 'hope and change,' to wit: 'big, fat government.'

The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good.

The politics of envy is the politics of this commandment: "Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote." It is the politics of two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

We have to get back to a government where leaders are willing to talk across party lines and do not have absolute politics as the goal.

In American politics, 'Europe' is usually a code word for 'big government.'

Big money and big business, corporations and commerce, are again the undisputed overlords of politics and government. The White House, the Congress and, increasingly, the judiciary, reflect their interests. We appear to have a government run by remote control from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers and the American Petroleum Institute. To hell with everyone else.

Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies.

I cannot watch the city of Chicago be destroyed by petty politics and bad government.

People are yearning for a politics that tells it straight: that being in government is difficult, that there are tough decisions that we have to make sometimes.