Quotes about politics

In business, as in politics, it is never easy to go against the beliefs and attitudes held by the majority. The businessman who moves counter to the tide of prevailing opinion must expect to be obstructed, derided and damned.

J. Paul Getty

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

Winston Churchill

As in other departments of science, so in politics, the compound should always be resolved into the simple elements or least parts of the whole.

Aristotle

I am not a political man and I have no political convictions. I am an individual and a believer in liberty. That is all the politics I have.

Charlie Chaplin

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

H. G. Wells

Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.

Bill Gates

We don’t need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole.

Vladimir Putin

Because the rich are generally few in number, while the poor are many, they appear to be antagonistic, and as the one or the other prevails they form the government. Hence arises the common opinion that there are two kinds of government – democracy and oligarchy.

Aristotle

Funded by the government just means funded by the people. Government, by the way, has no money. It only takes money from the people. Sometimes people forget that that’s really what occurs.

Elon Musk

Democracy is the superior form of government, because it is based on a respect for man as a reasonable being.

John F. Kennedy