Quotes about politics

A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don’t understand why it’s the government’s responsibility.

Wayne Dyer

War is like government, a matter of tact.

Napoleon

Benevolent, enlightened, wise dictators are the most efficient form of government. The problem is what comes afterwards.

Reid Hoffman

A true master of politics is able to calculate, down to the smallest fraction, the advantages to which he may put his very faults.

Napoleon

There is no indispensable man. The government will not collapse and go to pieces if any one of the gentlemen who are seeking to be entrusted with its guidance should be left at home.

Woodrow Wilson

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

Theodore Roosevelt

As president, Reagan worked very well with Democrats to do big things. It is true that he worked to reduce the size of government and cut federal taxes and he eliminated many regulations, but he also raised taxes when necessary.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Sabotage did not involve loss of life, and it offered the best hope for future race relations. Bitterness would be kept to a minimum and, if the policy bore fruit, democratic government could become a reality.

Nelson Mandela

For on Cardinal Rohan saying to me that the Italians did not understand war, I replied that the French did not understand politics.

Niccolo Machiavelli

In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.

Abraham Lincoln