People Quotes

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.

~ John Kenneth Galbraith

If we lived within our means - by being prudent - the 7 billion people in the world could have everything they needed. Global politics should be moving in that direction. But we think as people and countries, not as a species.

~ Jose Mujica

I think bad politics are incredibly dangerous, so it's important to make sure that people are communicating well. Culture and morale are super important. It's best to not force it, but let it happen organically and genuinely.

~ Aaron Levie

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.

~ Margaret Thatcher

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

~ E. B. White

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.

~ Charles De Secondat

And yet, there are still people in American politics who, for some reason, cling to this belief that America is better off adopting the economic policies of nations whose people who immigrate here from there.

~ Marco Rubio

I think it is better when people with their own businesses and means of income join politics as there is some degree of honesty and integrity.

~ Vijay Mallya

Any criticism of Thatcher throws a dangerously absurd light on the entire machinery of British politics. Thatcher's name must be protected, not because of all the wrong that she had done, but because the people around her allowed her to do it.

~ Morrissey

People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'

~ P. J. O'rourke

Most people who get in trouble in politics usually get in trouble because they're disconnected from the people they serve, and I don't think anybody in Tennessee, even people who won't vote for me, would accuse me of that.

~ Lamar Alexander

If I'm lucky enough to be involved in the Academy Awards in the future, I'll just let people make up their decision without being involved in any politics. Because it shouldn't involve that.

~ Peter Jackson

A lot of people are surprised when I talk so much about the present, but politics is just a crucial part of archaeology.

~ Sarah Parcak

The middle ground in Congress has all but disappeared. The founders intended competing principles and interests to check excesses and create a balance in our politics that would benefit 'we the people.' Gerrymandered districts and a hyped-up fight-night media offer a partial explanation of why we seem to have neither checks nor balances.

~ Donna Brazile

I'm in no way suggesting that my opinion matters more than anyone else's, of course, but the only thing that bothers me is apathy. People that sit out of the process and complain about it, or pretend that politics isn't a part of their everyday lives.

~ Olivia Wilde

There's a difference between being politically incorrect and boorish. And we've seen that line crossed a dozen times by smart people who've mistaken politics for punditry.

~ Greg Gutfeld

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

~ Rutherford B. Hayes

There's an old joke that politics is Hollywood for ugly people. An awful lot of the press coverage about Washington reads like coverage of Hollywood. Madonna is having some spat with Sean Penn. Who cares? And who cares which politician is mad at that politician?

~ Ted Cruz

I think, in politics, half the people are gonna like you, and half the people are not gonna like you, no matter what you do or what you say... It's like there are no right answers. If there were, everyone would choose the right answers. They're all opinions.

~ Tom Brady

I think people involved in politics make good actors. Acting and politics both involve fooling people. People like being fooled by actors. When you get right down to it, they probably like being fooled by politicians even more. A skillful actor will make you think, but a skillful politician will make you never have to think.

~ Donna Brazile

If you're sort of interested in politics but sort of upset about contemporary politics, it's kind of wonderful to read about periods who were very eloquent and admirable - generally. People are articulating ideas you can sympathize with or understand both sides of. Or at least feel like one side is saying the right things.

~ Whit Stillman

When we have a Deputy Prime Minister who tells people not to drive cars but has two Jags himself, and where the Minister who tells people not to have two homes turns out to have nine himself no wonder the public believe politicians are hypocrites.

~ William Hague

There's not a self-regulating group of nice fair-playing people in politics. There are a lot of dodgy people in politics.

~ Heather Brooke

You know, I'm not comfortable with people whose politics are static in a democracy.

~ Steve Earle

There is a danger of Scottish politics being between two sets of dinosaurs... the Nationalists who can't accept they were rejected by the people, and some colleagues at Westminster who think nothing has changed.

~ Johann Lamont

I don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people.

~ Paul Wellstone

A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.

~ Paul Wellstone

In politics, readily dismissing inconvenient people can easily extend to dismissing inconvenient truths about them.

~ Daniel Goleman

Politics is a game and a profession. It doesn't really serve the people the politicians are supposed to serve.

~ Kit Harington

The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.

~ H. Rap Brown

As politics is disconnected from its ethical and material moorings, it becomes easier to punish and imprison young people than to educate them.

~ Henry Giroux

The problem with modern politics is everybody is doing sound bite stuff. In my stump speech, I give 20 minutes on why I think we're off track. And I think people do really want to engage in a serious high-level discussion on how to get the country back on track because people care about their own country.

~ Dave Brat

In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values.

~ Diane Abbott

We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.

~ Patricia Hewitt

In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

~ C. Northcote Parkinson

People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.

~ Eleanor Clift

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

~ Spiro T. Agnew

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.

~ G. M. Trevelyan

I have way too shady a background to get into politics. I was a crazy kid - I was in bands, and I don't think I'd get very far before people started digging up stuff I didn't want them to see.

~ Michael Joseph Kelly

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

~ Marcel Proust