Plato Quotes

When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics.

You may not be thinking about politics, but politics is thinking about you.

Politics is different than business.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

Politics is the science of who gets what, when, and why.

Maybe it's my libertarian philosophy: but being in government is hard.

I believe I am more conservative than Bob Dole; I believe I am more committed to fundamentally changing American government than Bob Dole.

There is a circus around politics. But if you think it is a game, then you forget what the purpose of politics actually is.

Personally, I believe that government, rather than money, tends to be the primary factor limiting the development of new technologies.

Politics doesn't matter, policy does.

Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from birth what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government to do good.

Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion can change the government practically just so much.

No man can be a politician except he be first a historian.

I don’t think you’d call the President political.

Good or bad, political choices have an impact on the way country’s behave.

I hold them [politics] to be subject to laws as fixed as matter itself, and to be as fit a subject for the application of the highest intellectual power.

Politics is the art of stopping people from minding their own business.

To people in virtually any age before our own, the only argument that mattered was between extremely small government and no government at all. Extremely small government meant there was at least some law and order; no government meant that there was not.

I did not love politics. As a matter of fact, I hated politics. I loved governing which is … a different thing.

Government stimulates the democrat party.

Politics organizes our lives. We can't disregard it. Politics has lot of muck, lot of dirt. But that doesn't mean you have to be away from it. It's ubiquitous.

Politics is awful.

At the heart of all problems lies the politics of the country.

How could you say the best form of government is a republic if you think the universe is a monarchy?

We have our differences since the beginning of America. It's a legitimate difference. What is the role of government, et cetera, federal, state, local?