Political Quotes

I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity.

Landing on 'Morning Joe' wasn't a fluke. I was a poli sci major in college. I interned at the CBS political unit, covered conventions.

I don't think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political.

Reagan's emotional intelligence, his ability to suss out people's longings and to channel them for political purposes, was better than just about any human being that ever lived.

People in charge of intelligence are political as well.

Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required.

I believe that artistic activities change people. You do effect change. I see architecture as a political, social and cultural act - that is its primary role.

Architecture is always political.

The Declaration of Independence was to set forth the moral justification of a rebellion against a long-recognized political tradition - the divine right of kings.

Independence is the only way Scotland can realise its full political and cultural potential in the 21st century.

True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion.

A political party cannot have a religion. Only individuals can. Otherwise, you'd be exploiting religion, and religion is so supreme that it cannot be exploited or taken advantage of.

Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.

Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny it is the political defense of women hating.

I believe in Las Vegas. I think its best days are ahead of it. But I'm afraid to do anything in the current political environment in the United States.

If journalism is the first draft of history, then talk radio provides an early glimpse into how the meaning of political events will be spun for ideological and partisan purposes.

The American Right has an amazing ability to lionize leaders whose lives are the precise antithesis of the political values that define their image.

You could easily do a book of Marshawn Lynch's quotes, which have a quite serious political pushback. I think he's really amazing.

Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness.

Power is action the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

There was no instruction to be thankful that the Christians were special people, chosen people. There was no nationalistic, political or ethnic superiority to be thankful for.

Inspiration is an underexamined part of political life and presidential leadership.

School boards can be a steppingstone to higher forms of political leadership.

I do think the U.S. has a moral and political leadership role to play.

We have to reform the entire political process. It's got to start with leadership by example.

At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means.

Too often, advances in civil rights or women's rights are undermined by wrong-headed legislation or weak-kneed political leadership.

Despite the increasingly presidential style of political leadership in our country, teamwork is essential.

Even today with the public's growing interest in food and diet issues, politicians rarely include food as part of their political platforms.

I think one of the saddest things that's happening to literature is that it's getting over-simplified by this diet of simple political ideas.

The unforgivable political sin is vanity the killer diet is sour grapes.

Chancellor Angela Merkel and Wolfgang Schaeuble, her finance minister, are right to oppose fiscal and bank unions without political union.

The path of progress cuts through the four-way intersection of the moral, medical, religious and political - and whichever way you turn, you are likely to run over someone's deeply held beliefs.

You can think what you like of Madonna - about her political choices and her PR - but you have to respect her courage not to let the critics stop her exploring her potential.

I'm not going to be bullied or pushed around by the group of the day. You've got to have political courage. You've got to have your own inner beliefs.

Political courage requires clarity.

It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions.

I have a huge political interest. I just wish I had the courage to come into politics in India.

The eyes of the world are fixed on the U.S. to see if we have the political courage and moral sense to solve our debt crisis.

The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.

Political correctness is one of the engines of nannyism. Allowing and even encouraging 'offensive' ideas is vital for the intellectually health of a free society.

I prefer a positive view of freedom, drawing on another tradition of political thinking that goes all the way back to the ancient Greek polis.

If our faith is the most important part of our lives, then our religious views influence every other part of our lives, including our political views.

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

Because I am much like Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, I'm such an unconventional political figure that you really need to design a unique campaign that fits the way I operate.

We have never been strictly political, only strictly funny.

'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' was the work of a wayward imagination brought to the end of its tether by political disgust and personal confusion.

The most important political office is that of the private citizen.

Political correctness - the rigging of politics using different rules for different groups, and buttressed by the media - ensures that Democrats always have the upper hand.

I don't like politics. I am not aligned to any political party. I have friends in all political parties.