Political Quotes

Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance.

Democrats and Republicans were essentially the same party with different faces and that was why, no matter how many promises each leader made, significant change rarely transpired.

It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.

The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.

Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Well socialism is exactly the reverse.

I always wanted to get into politics, but I was never light enough to make the team.

In actual fact those who do not care for politics and sit on the fence do indeed side for a political party: The ruling party.

Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct.

I think people are rapidly losing confidence in the political class, and I don't blame them.

Whoever wants to reach socialism by any other path than that of political democracy will inevitably arrive at conclusions that are absurd and reactionary both in the economic and the political sense.

I was raised with the idea that if you're not smart enough to do science you can do politics.

Any religious, philosophical or political idea that doesn't lead one towards love ought to be forsaken

To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.

Every organization of men, be it social or political, ultimately relies on man's capacity for making promises and keeping them.

Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.

When are the world's political parties going to get appropriate symbols: snake, louse, jackal, ... trash can, clown face, ... dollar bill with bat wings on it?

Coming out is the most political thing you can do

Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?

Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

In politics, the truth is strictly optional and that also seems to be true in parts of the media.

Healing the wounds of the earth and its people does not require saintliness or a political party, only gumption and persistence. It is not a liberal or conservative activity; it is a sacred act.

I care nothing for all the political parties in the world except as they stand for justice.

Whether I am or am not a Communist is irrelevant. The question is whether American citizens, regardless of their political beliefs or sympathies, may enjoy their constitutional rights.

The stimulus was a case of political patronage, corporate welfare, and cronyism at their worst.

Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual societies.

The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.

Laws cannot be imposed on him who is the master of the law.

Holy scripture does not hold women back. It's the people that decide to interpret it in such a way for their own, sometimes political, agendas.

Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if the future holds no hope.

The basis of effective government is public confidence, and that confidence is endangered when ethical standards falter or appear to falter.

Both political parties have their good times and bad times, only they have them at different times.

I never felt comfortable with making political decisions based on whether, you know, it was the right thing to do in terms of a poll.

The Norwegian response to violence is more democracy, more openness and greater political participation.

All Gods were immortal.

I was grateful for the opportunity to make a difference. The political violence really started in 1970-1971. The political difficulties start a little bit beyond that.

I know some very political people who rap, and they say very political things and they'll never get a deal.

If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.

Jeffersonian Democracy simply meant the possession of the federal government by the agrarian masses led by an aristocracy of slave-owning masses.

I was a countryman and a father before I was a writer on political subjects... Born and bred up in the sweet air myself, I was resolved that my children should be bred up in it too.

Our world is very dishonest, and our leaders encourage dishonesty by setting bad examples - by lying, being corrupt, and using political sleight of hand to sustain power.

The Democratic and Republican parties, two apparently distinct political entities feeding at the same corporate trough.

A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.

It is awful hard to get people interested in corruption unless they can get some of it.

The current tax code is a daily mugging.

I already feel that I am making a political statement by sticking around in music, when I am doing it so differently to everyone else.

Question: How much do you have to invest in the future before you've spent it and no longer have one?

There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.

You can judge the moral bearing of a political system, a political institution, a political man by the degree of danger they attach to the fact of being observed through the eyes of a satiric poet.

The rules and reasons the political system employs to enforce status relations of any kind, including racial hierarchy, evolve and change as they are challenged.