Political Quotes

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

The crucial role communists played in organizing industrial unions in the 1930s and struggling for social reforms, peace, and civil rights strengthened rather then undermined democratic forces.

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.

I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.

I started my political life in the Resistance. It was there that I had my first responsibility.

Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.

Feminism is a political mistake. Feminism is a mistake made by women's intellect, a mistake which her instinct will recognize.

If political correctness has achieved one thing, it’s that it has made the Conservative party cloak their inherent racism behind more creative language

Mexico extends beyond its borders.

Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.

Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management.

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

It's a very bad idea for scientific conclusions to be accepted because they fit with the political values of a group of researchers.

The party that called itself liberal aimed at respecting the liberty to dispose of one's own goods

A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.

The ostrich is the only animal officially endowed with political direction.

Political institutions are a superstructure resting on an economic foundation.

The only valid political system is one that can handle an imbecile in power without suffering from it

The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.

Republican democracy is overperfect and demands political virtues and talents far superior to our own.

When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy.

As a poet, there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language from corruption.

Future U.S. political leaders – those for whom the Cold War was not the formative experience that it was for me – may not consider the return on America’s investment in NATO worth the cost.

All the public systems – administration, justice, education and political are designed to keep people with knowledge out. Such a system promotes mediocrity.

I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.

What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before.

I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men of our time.

Listening to a speech by [Neville] Chamberlain is like paying a visit to Woolworth's, everything in its place and nothing above sixpence.

The bottom has fallen out of America's wage floor. And the erosion of the minimum wage has lowered pay and working standards for all of us.

Politics, as any observer of the modern world knows, is the enemy of economics, everywhere and always.

Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.

[Politicians] - they'll give you everything you want to your face - and then, as you walk away, they'll shoot you in the back because it's fun to watch you die.

You show me a polluter, I'll show you a subsidy. I'll show you a fat cat using political clout to escape the discipline of the free market and force the public to pay his production costs.

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

A fully equipped duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts, and dukes are just as great a terror - and they last longer.

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.

To me, political action involves making the politician who represents us know that he either produces or he is out, and he's out one way or another.

[When people] say 'let's do something about it,' they mean 'let's get hold of the political machinery so that we can do something to somebody else.' And that somebody is invariably you.

In America, communities existed before governments. There were many groups of people with a common sense of purpose and a feeling of duty to one another before there were political institutions.

Economic distress, political pressure, and social obloquy already drive us from our homes and from our graves. The Jews are already constantly shifting from place to place.

Above all, there is no exception to this rule: that the idea of political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of psychological superiority.

What is true of Mr. Mill's influence on the women's-suffrage question is true also of the other political movements in which he took an active interest.

Hollywood is right. A good and strong movie can have a more powerful social impact than any and all political speeches or newspaper editorials and columns.

The Democratic Party is now a political mechanism having a genuine political principle: national socialism.

My political position is that I'm happy to be alive and in North America.

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

I have read all that has been written by the gravest authorities on political economy on the subject of rent, wages, taxes, tithes.

Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

I recognize the Republican Party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.