Political Quotes

I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union.

To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

Be sure you avoid the Ku Klux Klan. Don't get that albatross around your neck. Once you've made that mistake, you inhibit your operations in the political arena.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

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

If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it.

Music is worth doing just because. It doesn’t have to be justified by some political point of view, and it’s kind of insulting to the music to make it a tool for something else.

If we will not endure a king as a political power, we should not endure a king over the production, transportation, and sale of any of the necessaries of life.

For too long, too many people dependent on Social Security have been cruelly frightened by individuals seeking political gain through demagoguery and outright falsehood, and this must stop.

Nothing but widespread suffering will produce any effect on Congress

The time has come to move beyond eco-elitism to eco-populism. Ecopopulism. To change our laws and culture, the green movement justice, political solutions and social change.

There is no monopoly on common sense on either side of the political fence.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

Woody makes a movie as if he were lighting 10,000 safety matches to illuminate a city. Each one is a little epiphany: topical, ethnic, or political.

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.

I find the remark, "Tis distance lends enchantment to the view" is no less true of the political than of the natural world.

To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.

There will be no silence from Canada. Our friendship has no limit. Generation after generation we have traveled many difficult miles together side by side.

A political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live.

Islam takes advantage of two structural flaws that exist in the Western society. One is political correctness and other is the decline of morality.

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

America's problem is too much political correctness.

When an issue becomes a vital part of a political agenda, as is the case with climate, then the politically desired position becomes a goal rather than a consequence of scientific research.

Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.

Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

I have a political attitude, but I'm certainly not a politician.

A party is the vanguard of a class, and its duty is to lead the masses and not merely to reflect the average political level of the masses.

We pick politicians by how they look on TV and Miss America on where she stands on the issues. Isn't that a little backwards?

I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.

When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us

We will not allow to become a political issue in this country the question of Asianisation.

I don't think voters give a hoot about the character of their political advisors, except to the extent that character reflects on the candidates.

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

If you disagree with your government, that's political. If you disagree with your government that is approaching theocracy, then you're evil.

Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.

The saddest part of the human race is we're obsessed with this idea of 'us and them,' which is really a no-win situation, whether it's racial, cultural, religious or political.

The economic owning class is always the political ruling class.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

It's this mingling of the economic and political elite which is really destroying our democracy.

I was doing political cartoons and getting angry to the point where I felt I was going to have to start making and throwing bombs. I thought I was probably a better cartoonist than a bomb maker.

The worst day of my political life was when President George W. Bush signed McCain-Feingold into law.