Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power. "

Maggie Gallagher

Related Quotes:

" Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship. "

James Russell Lowell

" I'll be honest: I haven't ruled politics out. "

" A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot. "

William Randolph

" Bangalore now wants a person who doesn't only play politics. Bangalore needs a problem solver, and I am a problem solver. I will be the bridge between Bangalore and the Centre. "

Nandan Nilekani

" I'm well aware of the pragmatism of politics. "

" The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn't really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is. "

Christopher Hitchens

" The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution. "

Maggie Gallagher

" One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President. "

Lyndon B. Johnson

" Everything in politics is politically motivated, didn't you know? "

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

" I played by the rules of politics as I found them. "

Richard M. Nixon

" My father was the Prime Minister of Pakistan. My grandfather had been in politics, too; however, my own inclination was for a job other than politics. I wanted to be a diplomat, perhaps do some journalism - certainly not politics. "

" If someone uses the uniform, whatever uniform, for partisan politics, I am disappointed because I think it does erode that bond of trust we have with the American people. "

" Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

" I think that people are tired. They're tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics. "

" Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it. "

" Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. "

Grover Cleveland

" Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it's because I'm Smart... But that is a lie: The real reason is because I'm an incurable Gambling addict. "

Hunter S. Thompson

" Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. "

Thomas Babington Macaulay

" Charter schools are public schools that operate, to a certain extent, outside the system. They have more control over their teachers, curriculum and resources. They also have less money than public schools. "

Maggie Gallagher

" I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics. "

" That, sir, depends on whether I embrace your mistress or your politics. "

" Politics is - once in a while - a forum for serious debate about political philosophy. "

" You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord. "

" All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats. "

" Sitting at a candidate rally is similar to sitting in a ballyard. Both give you the opportunity to assess the technical metrics and reflect on the intangibles - what baseball calls 'make up' and politics calls 'character' - the leadership, talent and maturity to add value to a venture. "

Christine Pelosi

" Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied. "

Otto von Bismarck

" Politics have no relation to morals. "

Niccolo Machiavelli

" We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation. "

" All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics. "

" I know politics is emotionally brutal; I've already had experience with the reality of smear campaigns, so I understand there will not be a path of roses laid before me. "

Marianne Williamson