Political Quotes

Middle-class societies don't emerge automatically as an economy matures, they have to be CREATED through political action.

Every ruling class has wanted only this: all the rewards and none of the burdens. The operational code is: we have a lot; we can get more; we want it all.

Be proud to be a decent American rather than a wanker whipping up fear.

In Christian terms, evangelization and humanization are not alternatives. Nor are the vertical dimension of faith and the horizontal dimension of love for ones neighbor and political change.

Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.

Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges.

A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity.

True Sufism is resistance: spiritual, intellectual, social, cultural, political and economic resistance. It cannot be, for sure, supporting dictators.

The most important causes of political arrangements and acts are found in the nature and behavior of man.

Any nation that can survive what we have lately in the way of government, is on the high road to permanent glory.

Don't you get the idea I'm one of those goddam radicals. Don't get the idea I'm knocking the American system.

The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.

Design is both a political and cultural force for change, although most designers choose not to think about the power it has.

The specific political distinction to which political actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy.

You have got to unite in the same labor union and in the same political party and strike and vote together, and the hour you do that, the world is yours.

The close relationship between politics and economics is neither neutral nor coincidental. Large governments evolve through history in order to protect large accumulations of property and wealth.

When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes your heart.

Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung

There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S.

In political matters feeling often decides more correctly than reason.

I think you have to judge everything based on your personal taste. And if that means being critical, so be it. I hate political correctness. I absolutely loathe it.

Eugenics is ... the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems.

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.

The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics.

Common hypocrites pass themselves off as doves; political and literary hypocrites pose as eagles. But don't be fooled by their eagle-like appearance. These are not eagles, but rats or dogs.

No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves.

I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth.

The most political thing you can do is be yourself

Another plague upon the land, as devastating as the locusts God loosed on the Egyptians, is 'Political Correctness.'

Being Jewish and having lost relatives in the Holocaust, I've always been aware of the meaning of prejudice. These are things that have remained with me throughout my political career.

I understand regicide as a means of obtaining vengeance for the ruin of our lives, but regicide as a means of obtaining political freedom I could never understand.

I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.

For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.

Politics is pervasive. Everything is political and the choice to be "apolitical" is usually just an endorsement of the status quo and the unexamined life.

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Referendums have always posed a threat when it comes to EU policy, because EU policy is complicated. They're an opportunity for those from all political camps who like to oversimplify things.

There is nothing that politicians like better than handing out benefits to be paid for by someone else.

In a political struggle of class against class, organization of trade unions is the most important weapon.

I am ready to have dialogue with the concerned parties once the nation is calm and the political temperatures are lowered enough for constructive and productive engagement.

There is hardly any politically minded man who acknowledges and agrees with every point of the program of a political party.

If one sets a car on fire, that is a criminal offence. If one sets hundreds of cars on fire, that is political action.

Anybody may support me when I am right. What I want is someone that will support me when I am wrong.

In the final analysis it doesn't really matter what the political system is...We don't need perfect political systems; we need perfect participation.

Poor people have been voting for Democrats for the last 50 years and they're still poor.

The carping and bickering of political factions in the nation's capital reminds me of two pelicans quarreling over a dead fish.

China has no income tax, no unemployment and not a single soldier outside its borders.

Overpopulation is perhaps the biggest problem facing us, and immigration is part of that problem. It has to be addressed.

Obedience is the psychological mechanism that links individual action to political purpose. It is the dispositional cement that binds men to systems of authority.

The challenge remains. On the other side are formidable forces: money, political power, the major media. On our side are the people of the world and a power greater than money or weapons: the truth.

The problem isn't the abuse of power; it's the power to abuse.