Political Quotes
I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.
If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life and history is depressing.
We are apt to be deluded into false security by political catch-words, devised to flatter rather than instruct.
Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.
The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all such institutions must be sacrificed.
Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree - very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time.
I didn't say I wouldn't go into ghetto areas. I've been in many of them and to some extent I would say this; if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.
There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.
Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.
This administration is doing everything we can to end the stalemate in an efficient way. We're making the right decisions to bring the solution to an end.
The Russian leaders are keen judges of human psychology, and as such they are highly conscious that loss of temper and of self-control is never a source of strength in political affairs.
Have we come all this way, I wondered, only to be dismantled by our own technologies, to be betrayed by political connivance or the impersonal avarice of a corporation?
As for me, I am deeply a democrat; this is why I am in no way a socialist. Democracy and socialism cannot go together. You can't have it both ways. Socialism is a new form of slavery.
Modern candidates seem to have to live with political matters all the time. In my father's time, a politician's home was still his castle.
A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.
It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or political injustice.
I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong
It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I'm a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can't be too small to suit me.
In Europe, Socialism is just another political party. It just means that government takes over certain things like hospitals, prisons, military and schools that should not be run for profit.
A constitutional amendment for congressional term limits could never achieve the blessing of Congress; it could be initiated only by the states.
I don't think that what's going on in Bosnia is political activity. It's partly political, but it's partly atavistic as well.
I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I will be with the people.
If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage.
Being political is an integral part of being Iranian. Our lives are defined by politics.
Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.
I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of God than live in that palace at Washington.
I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.
We in the West must bear in mind that the poor countries are poor primarily because we have exploited them through political or economic colonialism.
A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market determinism over human lives and broad public values?
When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.
It is very doubtful whether man is enough of a political animal to produce a good, sensible, serious and efficient constitution. All the evidence is against it.
No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins.
The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
Political debate with liberals is basically impossible in America today because liberals are calling names while conservatives are trying to make arguments.
Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.
The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone.