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Quotes About Politics

We have always cared more about property rights than human rights in this country. You should know that.
~ John Kilian Houston Brunner
The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment [Regimen] of Women.
~ John Knox
Who speaks for the West?: Muslims around the world do not see the West as monolithic. They criticize or celebrate countries based on their politics, not based on their culture or religion.
~ John L. Esposito
was written before it became too embarrassing for the Republican party to hold its 1972 convention in San Diego, and I preferred not to follow the convention to Miami Beach.
~ John Lange
If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.
~ John le Carre
As a politician, you have to deal with someone wanting you to fail every day. I think I prefer being in a situation where generally people are rooting for me, and if they aren't rooting for me, they aren't out there to see my downfall. I respect the people who have the stomach for it.
~ John Legend
Latins for Republicans - it's like roaches for Raid.
~ John Leguizamo
All plays are implicitly political by virtue of the subject-matter, form, and linguistic registers they contain, and the audience for whom they are intended; all productions are implicitly political because the resources they consume are denied to another play, company and space.
~ John Lennard
So Donald Trump and Sarah Palin are both drowning in the pool right in front of you, and you know there's only going to be a minute or two before one or both of them goes under. Here's the question: What kind of sandwich do you make?
~ John Lescroart
Max Byrd's Grant.
~ John Lescroart
The most important one was the belief, which went back to Lenin, that capitalists would never be able to cooperate with one another for very long. Their inherent greediness—the irresistible urge to place profits above politics—would sooner or later prevail, leaving communists with the need only for patience as they awaited their adversaries' self-destruction.
~ John Lewis Gaddis
on the other hand, who would be a more dedicated gay-basher than a gay school board member? look at congress.
~ John L'Heureux
Despite the opposition of several prominent Republican officials,
~ John Lithgow
The legislative cannot transfer the power of making laws to any other hands: for it being but a delegated power from the people, they who have it cannot pass it over to others.
~ John Locke
That all government is absolute monarchy." And the ground he builds on is this, "That no man is born free.
~ John Locke
governments must be left again to the old way of being made by contrivance and the consent of men
~ John Locke
Though it be ever so plain, that there ought to be government in the world
~ John Locke
El fin, pues, mayor y principal de los hombres que se unen en comunidades políticas y se ponen bajo el gobierno de ellas, es la preservación de su propiedad;
~ John Locke
Por "república" he entendido constantemente no una democracia ni cualquier otra forma de gobierno, sino cualquier comunidad independiente
~ John Locke
In 2019, Fox News' Greg Gutfeld explained to me what he called "the prison of two ideas." He told me that no one can seriously talk to or even be perceived as working with people on the "other side" of the debate, or they will be disowned by their own side. This applies not only to the media but also to politics generally. This surely explains much of the lack of civil, productive debate on guns.
~ John Lott
throughout my life I've steered an uneasy course between the Scylla of solitude and the Charybdis of politics, between my desire to help change the world and my impulse to escape it. The vessel in which I navigate these turbulent waters is music.
~ John Luther Adams
The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.
~ John Major
Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot.
~ John Major
The sight of allegedly sophisticated politicians parroting complete tripe trivialises and demeans government and it has to be stopped. It's played a significant part in public disillusionment with politics and has led to the absurd situation where more people vote for 'Strictly Come Dancing' than voted in the general election.
~ John Major