Quotes About Politics

To speak against religion (the Christian) is breaking down the bond of good government.

Good government has essentially broken down in the face of Brexit.

If you present good government, then elections look after themselves.

I'm doing a good job in Washington.

Build Back Better did not make the finish line; it stumbled right at the ribbon. And its death, by the way, is good news for Americans.

I have had lobbyists, and I have had some very good ones. They could do anything.

I don't know what a conservative is, you know, but I do know what good people are. And that's where I sit with Donald Trump.

I will not say I would not serve if the good people were imprudent enough to elect me.

It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear.

I think people more and more are tired of the party system. People want good candidates and good people to win.

In BJP & RSS, there are good people I respect, but some are playing dirty games.

When certain people have certain beliefs, they can be unyielding, and that's really what faith is. There's a large place in the world for faith, but when it comes to a scientific, political, and economic issue, dogma is not a very good place to start.

Since the 1980s, we've been living in this era, really, of corporate rule, based on this idea that the role of government is to liberate the power of capital so that they can have as much economic growth as quickly as possible, and then all good things will flow from that.

I think it's always a good time to be in a political film in America because there's so much material for comedy.

You can't think 'Dole' without thinking 'Bob Dole' and cartoons and third-person good times. He was one of those politicians: the kind you jabbed but were happy enough to have around.

La ragion di Stato non si è mai curata di gettare una graziosa volta fra causa ed effetto. La coscienza del mondo, tanto più pigra a pensare quanto più carica di rimorsi, la stampa dei gruppi momentaneamente al potere e il cervello dei suoi lettori castrato da essa, hanno sempre girato e capito la cosa solo come occorreva a loro

Ogni cosa a questo mondo è innanzi tutto una questione morale e solo molto più tardi una questione politica.»

Notes on the State of Virginia

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

All 'isms' run out in the end, and good riddance to most of them. Patriotism for example. [...] If in the interest of making sure we don't blow ourselves off the map once and for all, we end up relinquishing a measure of national sovereignty to some international body, so much the worse for national sovereignty. There is only one Sovereignty that matters ultimately, and it is of another sort altogether.

A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.

All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all of which limit it to a fake learnedness.

Democracy and free speech are not facets of one gem; democracy and free speech are eternal enemies.