Political Quotes

You want a friend in this city? [Washington, DC.] Get a dog!

But we are only termites on a planet and maybe when we bore too deeply into the planet there'll be a reckoning. Who knows?

Generals, on the average, are far less bellicose than journalists or patriotic housewives: They know the horrors of a war and they dislike any break in the routine

People turned against each other cannot turn against those responsible.

You must become your enemy to truly understand him.

The IGAD-Plus's compromise peace agreement is probably pregnant with a noisy, perhaps thunderous baby.

When enough people understand reality, tyrants can literally be ignored out of existence. They can't ever be voted out of existence.

Freedom of speech is detestable only to those who have no desire to think for themselves.

There is something immoral about abandoning your common sense in matters of social importance.

If your political theory requires humanity to "evolve", then you do not have a theory.

Don't ask me to pray, instead ask me to act.

When picking a leader, choose a peacemaker. One who unites, not divides. A cultured leader who supports the arts and true freedom of speech, not censorship.

Censorship is alive and well in America.

You're not allowed to call them dinosaurs any more, " said Yo-less. "It's speciesist. You have to call them pre-petroleum persons.

50% of all facts are false and the other half are just made up

it seems politicians projected the powerful brand called Ambedkar, rather than his ideologies. Like the ad says 'name is enough.

Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.

Bad as political fiction can be, there is always a politician prepared to make it look artistic by comparison.

The women of the world will dominate politics, some day, and you mustn't be too old-fashioned in your notions to join the procession of progress.

No country can police corruption in other countries when it itself is not free from corruption. You cannot clean a dirty wall with dirty hands.

The modern absolutism, which we find the most natural thing in the world, would have been quite beyond the dreams of the most absolute of kings.

For emotion is the enemy of rational argument.

Politics is a game played by the rich with the lives of the poor.

Violence only attacks the body, but it is non-violence that has the power to influence the soul and reshape it towards a peaceful future.

Mothers and fathers are born everywhere. What the world needs are leaders.

Their courtship unfolded in two settings, a Russian reality overlaid with New York memories

Florence imagined the Hammer and Sickle metallurgical plant to be an enormous brick factory like the ones in New York. But as she approached she saw it was in fact a small city of its own

A Red Riding Hood out of her depths in the woods of socialism

She was arriving at a revelation that the secret to living was simply forgetting

Blind party loyalty will be our downfall. We must follow the truth wherever it leads.

We owe our loyalty to each other and to our children's children, not to party politics.

No matter their party, people with a conflict of interest should be banned from the Electoral College.

Electing a bigot enables further bigotry.

He that walks into the political marsh cannot come out with polished boots.

If the caged birds think whoever scattering grains for them that person is their deity, what should we Kurds call the person who will grantee us an independence.

Iraq is a fabricated state that has failed. It has always been a failure. It exists on the map. On the map, it has some borders, but these borders weren’t drawn naturally.

Bigotry against any group should be disqualifying for high office.

What if I've died a long time ago and come here? he wondered. What if the defining characteristic of hell is that you're locked in an endless, blind battle to reform it?

It is only by ignoring fact, science, and reason that one can support current Republican positions.

We know enough to know that all of this is not quite right. And we know enough to know that settling for what’s not quite right is quite wrong.

Politics and justice seldom walk hand in hand.

We've got to escape from narrowness. We're a movement, not a conspiracy. We've got to radiate contacts, and have as many people aware of us as possible. That's living, modern common sense.

[Conventional wisdom] very heavily tends to reflect the preferences and the interests of the elite.

There has never been a more important time to vote for the Green Party!

I am not a member of any political party, APC or PDP. I am a Democrat.

Nigeria has divided itself into PDP and APC.The PDP is to go on making mistakes while APC is to prevent mistakes from being corrected.

To impart a moral responsibility to exercise fairness in leadership builds greater leaders of strong character.

There is an absolute power that truly empowers without corrupting

A strong person has faithand builds for the future

Me as a woman liking myself, is an act of social defiance!