Top 1200 Government And Politics Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

Politics and more politics - that's how you work towards the building of agreements.

You get involved in politics because politics are a weapon to use in the cause of Islam.

To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most completely fulfills the highest function of a government - the realisation of the will of the people.

It is federal, because it is the government of States united in a political union, in contradistinction to a government of individuals, that is, by what is usually called, a social compact. To express it more concisely, it is federal and not national because it is the government of a community of States, and not the government of a single State or Nation.

Well you know it's dangerous in politics, because especially in the Philippines there's a lot of killing in politics.

If you look at social movements in Latin America, there are spaces where alternative politics are thought about on the ground, at the grassroots level, but they are always under threat. The problem in North Africa and the Middle East is the politics of oil. It means that the spaces for truly grassroots politics, involving those masses of people excluded from high politics, are very quickly closed down. They are not really allowed any kind of autonomy to develop, and that seems to be the real problem, which gets us back to the neo-colonial relationship.

I went into politics on an emotional level and soon realised that emotion has nothing to do with politics.

The Seoul city government has been cooperating with the central government to stabilize the housing market, and we plan to brainstorm all possible ways with the government to better counter the issue.

During the socialist period, the government became too big. That created a crowding-out effect in the private economy, and it gave everybody the need to pay more taxes in order to finance this big government. We are against big government. We want a smaller and more efficient government.

If compassion and mercy are not compatible with politics then something is the matter with politics.

I am not cut out for politics. I don't even dream of joining politics.

State courts usually rule that correspondence between government officials, about government business, are public records, whether they use their government e-mail accounts or private ones.

People are very interested in politics, they just don't like it labelled 'politics'.

Course, that's the trouble with politics, it breeds politics! So that makes it pretty hard to stamp out.

Do you know that all of the money that we are spending, that the government is spending, must come from you? The government has no great pile of gold to which it can go to get what it gives you. The government has not one cent that it does not take from your pockets. Do not imagine, do not believe, do not go on the theory that you are not to pay this bill, unless the fundamentals of our government are to be overturned.

There's going to be government and politics that aren't representative of everyone. So, we have to really take it by a person by person basis, we can't just say, "hey, this guy looks like this," or "he's that religion" or "he wears this kind of clothes," "your skin tone is this way."

We never believe in divisive politics; we always work for an inclusive politics.

No. I probably do better not being in politics. They have too much control over you when you are in politics.

I admire people who come to politics because it takes a lot of courage to be in politics in India.

There can only be one government, and the president has certain roles and duties, which are to hold the second key on money and on people but not to go and check the government or tell the government what it is supposed to do.

People are very interested in politics, they just don't like it labelled politics.

A constitutional monarchy requires the monarch to be above politics but to be fully informed about politics.

The analysis in the era of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher was that government was interfering with the efficiency of the economy through protectionism, government subsidies, and government ownership. Once the government "got out of the way," private markets would allocate resources efficiently and generate robust growth. Development would simply come.

The richest persons in Africa are heads of state, governors and ministers. So every 'educated' African who wants to be rich - and there is nothing wrong with wanting to be rich - heads straight into government or politics.

Of course, in the reality of history, the Machiavellian view which glorifies the principle of violence has been able to dominate.Not the compromising conciliatory politics of humaneness, not the Erasmian, but rather the politics of vested power which firmly exploits every opportunity, politics in the sense of the "Principe," has determined the development of European history ever since.

I'm a committed Republican. I believe very strongly in individual liberty. I tend not to think much in terms of group politics. I really am a kind of small government person and I'm most certainly a fiscal conservative and strong on national defense.

I mean if politics was my main motivation I would be doing politics. But I'm a filmmaker.

'Fair' is one of the most dangerous concepts in politics. Since no two people are likely to agree on what is 'fair,' this means that there must be some third party with power - the government - to impose its will. The road to despotism is paved with 'fairness'.

Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the people fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The federal government is our servant, not our master!

There is a circus around politics. But if you think it is a game, then you forget what the purpose of politics actually is.

I know I should have never got into politics. And I've learned my lesson. No more politics.

Politics don't exist, actually. It's just a cheap business. Economics is what makes politics.

I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics.

I don't know anything about politics. I wouldn't put too much into my prediction on politics.

My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.

I don't have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.

In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

The fundamental question of politics has always been whether there should be politics.

Politics might be religion for the Left, but conservatives understand there is more to life than politics.

Politics means competition, especially in senior positions. If you don't know that, you're not especially suited to politics.

There have been a lot of crossover with celebrities and politics but to me, I don't think I would go into politics.

I had no intention of getting back into politics. I was teaching at Bowdoin and happily retired from politics.

I came into American politics and into this political system proud of politics and the way we make decisions.

Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone.

The left wants you to believe that true morality is defined by how much money you give the government, how much money you pay the government, how much money the government gets from you, because only the government does good stuff, only the government does good works, only the government cares about people. It's bogus.

Rahm Emanuel seems to think he knows Israel very well, and that the way to treat that country and its democratically-elected government is the way he treats all opponents in politics: by attacking and attacking.

I have learned that European politics is very much like Danish politics. You have all the rumours.

I probably do better not being in politics. They have too much control over you when you are in politics.

I am not interested in politics at all. At home, around the dinner table, we never discuss politics.

After all, I have spent the better part of my adult life insisting that government be open... that government be accessible... and that government be held accountable to people who voted us into office.

I am committed to the idea of information politics. That is how contemporary politics are played out.

I honestly have no interest in politics; I don't think I could ever get into politics.

Allah guards the justice loving government, even if it is the government of non-Muslims, and destroys the tyrant government, even if it is the government of Muslims.

All I know is politics. Really, politics takes up most of my time; it's nonstop.

I feel at some point that the farm state politics will overwhelm the Florida politics.

I'm seeing too much power being concentrated in the executive branch, and so our system of government is really in jeopardy, and more importantly, the overwhelming issue that we've had for a long time is money in politics. I see that problem getting worse.

The idea that the largest banks in the world would simultaneously fail, need government support, government guarantees, and/or government intervention to survive was not in my range of realistic scenarios.

If you want to rise in politics in the United States, there is one subject you must stay away from, and that is politics.

My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.

I'm not deeply involved in politics, but about 25% of the people I interact with in politics went to law school.