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Quotes About Politics

Democracy is the most vile form of government.
~ James Madison
For members who have only ever been in government, the negativity and aggressiveness of the opposition is easy to caricature.
~ Jason Kenney
Government is like a vast ocean and politics is the six-inch layer on top.
~ Jennifer Pahlka
New Labour was the most short-sighted, self-serving, incompetent, useless, and ineffective government that Britain has ever known.
~ Liam Fox
No American soldier should be allowed to set foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government.
~ Shirin Ebadi
People are frustrated. They're fed up. They don't think the government is working for them.
~ John Kasich
I think Britain would be alright, if only we had a different Government.
~ William Hague
Frankly, I'm fed up with politicians in Washington lecturing the rest of us about family values. Our families have values. But our government doesn't.
~ William J. Clinton
. . . behind each breakaway movement is a breakaway demagogue who will set up his breakaway demagogue government.
~ Frank Zappa
The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
~ Frederick Douglass
The State is the coldest of all cold monsters.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
We need a government that does not give in to a globalist agenda, an agenda I am now convinced seeks to bring American as a sovereign nation and the middle class to their knees.
~ George Noory
The government itself is running exactly like the Sopranos and they sit back and they make deals. And they say okay, 'I'm going do this: France, you're getting the pipelines.'
~ George Clooney
It's a very good idea that we have a third term Labour government led by Tony Blair for a full term.
~ Peter Mandelson
[V]irtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.
~ George Washington
Americans complain a lot about the government and they voice a generalized suspicion of the government, but they constantly clammer for more of it.
~ George Will
Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.
~ Gerald R. Ford
I think of Texas as the laboratory for bad government.
~ Molly Ivins
We will never have Fascism in England; no Englishman will dress up, not even for a revolution.
~ WILLIAM BOLITHO
It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.
~ Herbert Hoover
These are the same people who believe, in some cases, the federal government should not play any role in providing health care to our people or protecting the environment.
~ Bernie Sanders
Global governance is just a euphemism for global government.
~ Jacques Attali
The long experiment with professional politicians and professional government is over, and it failed.
~ Newt Gingrich
I don't think any Australian will ever forget, there will never be a Carbon Tax under a government I lead.
~ Nigel Scullion