Quotes About Politics

I truly believe that before I retire from public office, I'll be voting for a woman for president.

In the Conservative view, you have 10 premiers and the Prime Minister as a kind of head waiter to take their orders.

There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.

Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

While the people retain their virtue and vigilence, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.

The art of government is the organization of idolatry.

Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

The State, that cawing rookery of committees and subcommittees.

A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.

Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason.

Whenever by an unfortunate occurrence of circumstances an opposition is compelled to support the government, the support should be given with a kick and not a caress and should be withdrawn at the first available moment.

The average man that I encounter all over the country regards government as a sort of great milk cow, with its head in the clouds eating air, and growing a full teat for everybody on earth.

Tyranny and anarchy are alike incompatible with freedom, security, and the enjoyment of opportunity.

Would that ... a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honour become identical.

However much people want to politicize every movement of a controversial woman in life or on the screen, we just have to keep being personal and truthful, or we will explode.

No one wants to die, and no one wants to die poor. These are the two fundamental truths that transcend culture, they transcend politics, they transcend economic cycles.

Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.

Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many.

In politics, not all lies are all lies. And not all truths are complete.

In politics, readily dismissing inconvenient people can easily extend to dismissing inconvenient truths about them.

As things mature - whether they be real estate, rock n' roll, politics, festivals, radio - there's an efficiency that develops, and with it, very often, comes some soul-crushing truths.

Most of what is said by candidates on the right is half-baked truths and fabrications coated in 'patriotism or family values.'

The basis of Ronald Reagan was his humanity. I might not have agreed with his politics, but my research - all I read about him and by him - was that he was revered because he had a big heart. He was very religious and sincere. He believed that one spoke truths because, otherwise, people would know you were lying. None of that even applies to Trump.