Political Quotes

Let's face it, Obama is not a hugely popular political figure in the state of Texas.

But I made him the Deputy Secretary for Homeland Security because that added an element of political espionage.

Anyone who tells you that one political party has a monopoly on the best defense of our nation is committing a fraud on the American people.

The inquiry into the proper aims and limits of State agency must be of the highest importance nay, that it is perhaps more vitally momentous than any other political question.

Be a politician; no training necessary.

There's no way in the world you're going to make a political party respectable unless you keep it out of office.

A politician is just like a pickpocket; it's almost impossible to get him to reform.

There is a hundred things to single you out for promotion in party politics besides ability.

I belong to no organized political body. I am a Democrat.

Foreign relations is an open book-- generally a checkbook.

Politicians are dumb, but they can count to 50% plus one.

They are each good when they are out, and each bad when they are in.

We elect our Presidents, be they Republican or Democrat, then start daring 'em to make good.

The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

In Washington, one man could do what ten of them do. Things kinder run themselves, anyhow.

What's the meaning of "giornalista professionista"? I have always thought a professional to be a good prostitute!

Invest in stupidity, its stocks never go down.

All art is political, all art is a martial one.

Political parties in Italy are so stupid and expensive that they deserve to be abolished.

Italian politicians are stupid and expensive, that's why they should be fired, abolished, or better eliminated.

I was tenaciously opposed by the governor and deputy-governor of the Bank, who had seats in parliament, and I had the City for an antagonist on almost every occasion.

To produce pure proletarian art the artist must be at one with the worker; this is impossible, not for political reasons, but because the artist never is at one with any public.

To the very limited extent that I have a political consciousness, to some extent I'm a lazy, apolitical sort of guy that just flits around.

If you allow a political catchword to go on and grow, you will awaken some day to find it standing over you, arbiter of your destiny, against which you are powerless.

The real focus needs to be on political action to stop this runaway train, real soon.

When the history of this period is written, [William Jennings] Bryan will stand out as one of the most remarkable men of his generation and one of the biggest political men of our country.

Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext.

The best example of all, to me, that our problems are both personal and cultural and political and social is the whole condition of the middle class economically.

I never thought of political endeavors primarily in terms of power and prestige, and I never thought of economic endeavors primarily in terms of wealth and position.

I pledge that I have no intention of raising taxes in my second term.

I am committed to curbing the influence of money in our political system.

When you're president, you have more power to help more people, but you also are the prisoner of circumstances as well, and countervailing political forces more.

My major political identity has been as her spouse for the last decade and I like it that way.

Faith branches off the highroad before reason begins

It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.

No more fiendish punishment could be devised, were such a thing physically possible, than that one should be turned loose in society and remain absolutely unnoticed.

The people of Nebraska are for free silver and I am for free silver. I will look up the arguments later.

Conservatism as an "ism" is always going to be somewhat in tension with a political party.

Ideas are indeed the most dangerous weapons in the world. Our ideas of freedom are the most powerful political weapons man has ever forged.

The moral spectacle of capitalism still offends, as does American capitalism's implacable insistence that the market determine value even in the political, intellectual, and artistic spheres.

All political organizations tend to function like a machine, to eliminate the unpredictable factor of affect - emotion.

Previously known for its six syllables of sweetness and light, reconciliation has become the political fighting word of the year.

The political scene is already so turgid, it doesn't need more of that from me.

The people of Asia were slaves, because they had not learned how to pronounce the word 'no'.

At the depths of that dusty soul there is nothing but abject surrender.

Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.

I love Canada. Its a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.

We have the right to ensure our security, especially when it is possible to reach agreement on a political solution.

Overall there may be less censorship in America than in China, but censorship and self-censorship are not only from political pressure, but also pressures from other places in a society.

Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.