Political Quotes

I've seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but I've seen more of them who were paralyzed in the head.

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.

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

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.

We shall never change our political leaders until we change the people who elect them.

I have always been afraid of banks.

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best

I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.

The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.

Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other.

Socialism is a new form of slavery.

The principle that the end justifies the means is and remains the only rule of political ethics; anything else is just a vague chatter and melts away between one’s fingers.

One's weakness should not ever be revealed.

In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician, but of the man with the best bedside manner.

Enemies strike at weak points.

In modern capitalism economic exploitation rather than political oppression is the real enemy of the people.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Writers are given one great story to tell their story. I’m telling my story as a political document.

Previous efforts to eradicate malaria failed for several reasons, including political instability and technical challenges in delivering resources, especially in certain countries in Africa.

If politicians lived on praise and thanks they'd be forced into some other line of business.

Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

But the issue of sexual harassment is not the end of it. There are other issues - political issues, gender issues - that people need to be educated about.

If women decide that their mission, their political career, balances out what they have to give up, they can be and are equally successful as men.

The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.

Terrorism is not an expression of rage. Terrorism is a political weapon. Remove a government's facade of infallibility, and you remove it's people's faith.

America's political system used to be about the pursuit of happiness. Now More and more of us want to stop chasing it and have it delivered.

Washington is a pool of money surrounded by people who want some.

Sisters, brothers and the whities, Blacks and the crackers, Police and their backers, They're all political actors

The economic prerequisites for the socialist revolution are fully matured in the US. The political premises are likewise far more advanced than might appear on the surface.

Families are struggling to put bread on the table, send their kids to college and take care of their basic needs. America needs a political revolution.

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

Voting is the foundation stone for political action.

I truly believe a woman's weight is a political issue, and if one young woman out there can see me and not feel crummy about herself, that's a good thing.

Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.

It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it.

People who consider themselves political, who follow political developments most rigorously, are often those who view the political process with the greatest lack of perspective.

The easy way to make money is to get special political privilege. From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competition and subsidies and stuff.

Currency warfare is the most destructive form of economic warfare.

For a few political turncoats there is real excuse. One can hardly blame those whom one ministry have seen fit to throw overboard for having the strength to swim to the other side.

A political problem thought of in military terms eventually becomes a military problem.

Compassion is not a dirty word.. it's time we rehabilitated compassion into the national political vocabulary of this great nation of ours.

No matter whether it's someone from the political left or right, we just need a voice to stand up and defend animal rights.

The citizen can bring our political and governmental institutions back to life, make them responsive and accountable, and keep them honest. No one else can.

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

I think five percent of all songs can be love songs, and another five percent can be miscellaneous or political, but the rest should just be about medieval feminists.

Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.

Perhaps...the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.