Political Life Quotes
Political Life Quote of the day
Ideas in a void have never appealed to me; action must follow thought or political life is meaningless.
But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer.
Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.
Nothing becomes reality in the political life of a nation that was not present in its literature as spirit.
I had already learned from more than a decade of political life that I was going to be criticized no matter what I did, so I might as well be criticized for something I wanted to do.
The worst day of my political life was when President George W. Bush signed McCain-Feingold into law.
Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.
If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life and history is depressing.
Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
I started my political life in the Resistance. It was there that I had my first responsibility.
The middle class is collapsing and we are moving toward an oligarchic form of society, where the billionaires will control the economy and the political life of the country.
Never lose your temper with the Press or the public is a major rule of political life.
I have sacrificed everything in my life that I consider precious to advance the political career of my husband.
Oh how I wish he (Franklin Pierce) was out of political life! How much better it would be for him on every account!
King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.
Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.
Liberal dominance of important areas of America's social and political life has undermined many of the virtues that have sustained this country.
The good of political life is the good of free and equal citizens recognizing the duty of civility to one another and supporting the institutions of a constitutional regime.
The Soviet assumption that all other political life-forms and beliefs were inherently and immutably hostile was the simple and central cause of that Cold War.
Religious faith is an important aspect of American culture and a fact of American political life.
The plain truth is that labor is the chief representative force that keeps the real special interests from dominating American political life.
Those who control the wealth of this society have an influence over political life far in excess of their number.
In my political life I spoke before leftist groups, before black activist groups that I disagreed with, to explain my position and to support my legislation.
That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.
Swift calls discretion low prudence; it is high prudence, and one of the most important elements entering into either social or political life.
Like most artists and musicians, I considered myself detached from the political life. But I had an insight that maybe we would have a political contribution to make in the future.
People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life.
The reduction of political discourse to sound bites is one of the worst things that's happened in American political life.
There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.
How much of our literature, our political life, our friendships and love affairs, depend on being able to talk peacefully in a bar!
A political conception covers the right to vote, the political virtues, and the good of political life, but it doesn't intend to cover anything else.
And I've been incredibly lucky to have a long career in journalism that has given me a front-row seat to some of the most important moments in modern American political life.
If in a democratic country nothing can be permanently achieved save through the masses of the people, it will be impossible to establish a higher political life than the people themselves crave.
I believe that I'm entitled to regard my pre-political life as off-limits in terms of what can be looked at and judged.
We know the legislation that passed the House. It was the worst piece of legislation frankly against working class people that I can remember in my political life in the Congress.
Life's saving graces are love, pleasure, laughter ... wisdom, it seems, is for the Hereafter.
It is an axiom of political life that you never raise expectations, whether in a political or military campaign, because your defeats are then magnified and your victories discounted.
My political life has been informed by the view that if there was any truth to religion there wouldn't really be any need for politics.
The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.
A life-long mission has been to counter the notion that political engagement is the spinach we must eat in order to have the dessert of freedom.
There is a clear intent to keep Christian thinking out of the mainstream of the media and the nation's political life.
The Labor Party is a body that does not seek political life, and does not fight for its life.
There have been many instances of people combining the political life with the spiritual life, a life of constant self-examination. Gandhi was a great example of that.
