Political Quotes

Iran's continued, widespread persecution of ethnic minorities, human rights defenders and political prisoners is a disgrace and stands as a shameful indictment of Iran's leaders.

People with HIV are still stigmatized. The infection rates are going up. People are dying. The political response is appalling. The sadness of it, the waste.

Bad policies, stupid policies, gutless policies have real consequences.

Would you respect a God you could comprehend? And yet very often that’s what we want - a God who reflects our culture, our biases, our economic, political, and military systems.

Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever apologize for anything.

Every week Republicans are excited about a new candidate because the one they liked last week turned out to be a moron.

Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.

Spare me the political events and power struggles, as the whole earth is my homeland and all men are my fellow countrymen.

There is nothing so bad that politics cannot make it worse.

Diplomacy is letting someone else have your way.

The political writer, then, is the ultimate optimist, believing people are capable of change and using words as one way to try and penetrate the privatism of our lives.

Political gerrymandering makes the incentive for most members of Congress to play to the extremes of their base rather than to the center.

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one.

Since this is an era when many people are concerned about 'fairness' and 'social justice,' what is your 'fair share' of what someone else has worked for?

He who controls the past controls the future.

Similarly, gender-equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparency are among the indispensable elements that are the imperatives of democratization.

The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.

Do not go gentle into that good night.

A sign that a peace association is going adrift is its exclusion of other political parties, with whom it could collaborate effectively on most of the problems besetting the cause of peace.

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.

The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.

Every Iranian artist, in one form or another, is political. Politics have defined our lives.

Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.

A lot has been said about politics; some of it complimentary, but most of it accurate

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.

To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.

Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse-and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Prosperity lasts long for one who acts after proper consideration.

The election is not a time to discuss serious issues.

Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or anything better than cohesion and unity?

Then you have [Donald] Trump. So it could be the tightest, most hazardous race in political history and we can't afford to allow Trump to slither through. So that's where I'm at.

Political action is the highest responsibility of a citizen.

To get rich is glorious.

Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others.

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

Architecture is definitely a political act.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.

Moral power is always more dangerous to an oppressor than political force.

Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.

Cities can be rebuilt, industries can be rebuilt, what really matters are strategy forces, military forces and the cadres leaders, political, military and economic.

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

Unemployment is bigger than a political party. It is a national danger and a national scandal.

As long as I count the votes, what are you going to do about it?

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

Never in the history of the world has there been a situation so bad that the government can't make it worse.

Today, more than ever, we need political leaders who can see the big picture, who understand the relationship between the economy and its environmental support systems.