Quotes About Politics

I wrote a study about this question, The Lessons of October, which served as a pretext for my elimination from the government.

The problem is that when government controls the economy, those who can influence government keep winning, and everybody else just stays the same.

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

Wherefore being all of one mind, we do highly resolve that government of the grafted by the grafter for the grafter shall not perish from the earth.

Our constituents did not send us to Washington to shut down the government. They sent us here to make it more accountable.

Under the specious pretext of effecting 'the happiness of the whole community,' nearly all the wrongs and intrusions of government has been carried through.

Chinese central government doesn't need to even lead public opinion: it just selectively stops censorship. In other words, just as censorship is a political tool, so is the absence of censorship.

You've got to remember that it's a two horse race. So when the Government is doing badly the Opposition is doing better and vice versa.

How is the government going to get the extra taxes? Out of the rich, or just out of the poor, as usual?

Every head of state and government in the world is allowed to have his opinion and to voice it.

I know these days it sounds a little odd, but American governments are very fearful of European reaction. They were afraid we would be considered gunslingers.

Government is a necessary evil

I think people are tuning out the political class, tuning out the national media, and the American people are just gonna - we're just gonna demand government as good as our people again.

I don't want the chair of the government because it will be controlled by the U.S. and I don't want to be controlled by the U.S.

Donald Trump represents and speaks for people who get nothing from government.

If you're campaigning against ObamaCare, but you're also having to defend yourself for closing the government, that seems to take away the asset from you.

The Republican and Democratic Parties are only factions of the Government Party.

The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.

In fact, a rather striking aspect of business propaganda in the United States is the demonization of government, starting after the Second World War.

We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.

You know, if you want to meet a lot of Iraqi leaders, the best places are the hotels in Amman or in London. In general the government here is amazingly unpopular.

Half the population hold that the government is run by a few big interests looking out for themselves, as polls regularly show.

When government misleads the country about a terrorist attack, that erodes trust.

We're a country that abhors the government. From Reagan on, many people think the government is the enemy in the United States.