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Quotes About Politics

Our Constitution, which was intended to limit government power and abuse, has failed.
~ Ron Paul
Power as is really divided, and as dangerously to all purposes, by sharing with another an Indirect Power, as a Direct one.
~ Thomas Hobbes
Wall Street has enormous power over the Republican Party, enormous power over the Democratic Party.
~ Bernie Sanders
I'm afraid there's a big confusion in the world between nuclear power and nuclear arms.
~ Abdus Salam
We think of politics in terms of power and who has the power. Politics is the end to which that power is put.
~ Ngugi wa Thiong'o
The man who carried out the attack is still in power and still insane, so we shall expect another attack any minute.
~ Muammar al-Gaddafi
When you give politicians the power to do what you think is right you're automatically giving politicians the power to do what you think is wrong.
~ Harry Browne
I too belong to an OBC caste but I have never used my community to get power
~ Narendra Modi
What is called a republic, is not any particular form of government ... it is naturally opposed to the word monarchy, which means arbitrary power.
~ Thomas Paine
Referring to Palestinian refugees: "We must do everything in our power to ensure that they never return.
~ David Ben-Gurion
It is a big embarrassment that a leader can say on the eve of an election that he cannot hand over power to an opponent, that he can only hand over power to a member of his political party.
~ Raila Odinga
Be grateful for blessings, Don't ever change, keep your essence. The power is in the people and politics we address.
~ Tupac Shakur
The paradox of communism in power was that it was conservative.
~ Eric Hobsbawm
The president is the country's scapegoat more than the country's leader; the president has as much power as we think the president has. Whoever has the most money is the puppet master.
~ Eric Andre
Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives.
~ Paul Wellstone
What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
~ Harold Wilson
The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.
~ Orhan Pamuk
What is translated from English and into English - and in what quantities - is a question of power.
~ Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.
~ Oriana Fallaci
The essence of politics is to direct oneself to the group which wields power
~ Steven Biko
Our program is simple: we wish to govern Italy. They ask us for programs but there are already too many. It is not programs that are wanting for the salvation of Italy but men and will power.
~ Benito Mussolini
Money and donations are an important part of our political system. They are hard power.
~ Joseph Nye
If we have Senators and Congressmen there that can't protect themselves against the evil temptations of lobbyists, we don't need to change our lobbies, we need to change our representatives
~ Will Rogers