The repository contains 136 quotes in the category “Politics and Government.”
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Authority forgets a dying king.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
1809 — 1892
Government is like a baby: an alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
President Ronald Reagan
1911 — 2004
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I’m beginning to believe it.
Clarence Darrow
1857 — 1938
The most important political office is that of private citizen.
Justice Louis Brandeis
1856 — 1941
In public life it is sometimes necessary in order to appear really natural to be actually artificial.
President Calvin Coolidge
1872 — 1933
In America any boy may become President and I suppose it’s just one of the risks he takes.
Ambassador Adlai Stevenson
1900 — 1965
Anarchism is a game at which the police can beat you.
George Bernard Shaw
1856 — 1950
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw
1856 — 1950
A politician was a person with whose politics you did not agree. When you did agree, he was a statesman.
Prime Minister David Lloyd George
1863 — 1945
The broad mass of a nation will more easily fall victim to a big lie than a small one.
Adolf Hitler
1889 — 1945
The art of politics is to get someone to change their mind without humiliating them.
Lorna Fitzsimons
1962 —
Stubborn opposition to proposals often has no other basis than the complaining question, “Why wasn’t I consulted?”
Senator Pat Moynihan
1927 — 2003
If you try to please everybody, somebody’s not going to like it.
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
1932 —
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison; anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unneccessary tyranny.
Earl Bertrand Russell
1872 — 1970
Elections are when people find out what politicians stand for, and politicians find out what people will fall for.
America is a land which fought for freedom and then began passing laws to get rid of it.
America is still a land of promise, especially during a political campaign.
The U.N. is a place where governments opposed to free speech demand to be heard.
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
Chancellor Otto von Bismarck
1815 — 1898
An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.
Confucius
551 — 479 B.C.
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