Political Quotes

But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.

The goal in the end is not to win elections. The goal is to change society.

Infrastructure is key, but also how it's used, and that's political.

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

The point is that in any country, including the United States, may be in the United States even more often than in any other country, foreign policy is used for internal political struggle.

A small minority in Turkey even accuses me of having political ambitions, when in fact I have been struggling with various illnesses for many years.

Taxation is not a method by which the community corporately provides itself with essential services, but a fund to be divided between different interests with political claims upon the state.

The political is replacing the metaphysical as the characteristic mode of grasping reality.

False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction.

Give politicians power and it certainly will be abused eventually - if not by today's politicians, then by their successors.

The 'global warming scare' is being used as a political tool to increase government control over American lives, incomes and decision making. It has no place in the Society's activities.

They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.

The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.

Nine out of ten Americans are actually monarchists at bottom. The fact is proved by their high suseptibility to political claims by president's sons and other relatives, usually nonentities.

Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.

It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.

How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?

I was born on a farm. My strength has nothing to do with political apparatus. I get my strength from nature, from flowers.

Tobey's a mellow, cool guy. He's just a good guy. I know that's not the answer you want, and I don't mean that as the political thing to say, but he's a nice guy.

When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.

The unimaginable brutality of this latest manifestation of Political Islam in the Arab world is too much to bear for many Muslim Arab

The foolish wish to speak out what was spoken in secret by the master.

The way forward is by building political support for republican and democratic objectives across Ireland and by winning support for these goals internationally.

The Chinese government since 1979 has been very successful in economic development, and successful enough, simply by surviving, in the realm of political development.

We must conclude that it is not only a particular political ideology that has failed, but the idea that men and women could ever define themselves in terms that exclude their spiritual needs.

The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations–great or small–to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.

They may be just as intelligent as you say. But I'd feel a helluva lot better if just one of them had ever run for sheriff.

Political leaders still think things can be done through force, but that cannot solve terrorism. Backwardness is the breeding ground of terror, and that is what we have to fight.

Republicans are not a political party. It's a mental condition.

Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was more politically oriented. Part and parcel of the initial SNCC efforts was to not only go in for voter registration, but for political participation.

Political organizations are formed to keep the powerful in power.

If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours!

Extreme poverty is the best breeding ground on earth for disease, political instability, and terrorism.

If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.

The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.

Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.

Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic about Canada. Young people have been a great source of inspiration for me.

Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama.

When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.

I am not here to parade my religious sentiments, but I declare I have too much respect for the faith in which I was born to ever use it as the basis of a political organization

There is no more certain way to deter employment than to harass and penalize employers.

It is ironic that people of modest means sometimes become conservative out of a scarcity fear bred by the very capitalist system they support.

Put three Zionists in a room and they will form four political parties.

A single legislature, on account of the superabundance of its power, and the uncontrolled rabidity of its execution, becomes as dangerous to the principles of liberty as that of a despotic monarch.