Political Quotes

My wife is the sweetest, most tolerant, most beautiful woman in the world. This is a paid political announcement.

Preaching doom and gloom has been beneficial to the political class. They use it to gain more power and control.

Where there is a sufficient social movement of self-reliant communities, there can be political change. There must be political change.

America has become amnesiac - a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated.

Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.

I dont usually make political comments, because I am a businessman, not a politician.

It's important that people press from the outside. It's important that people are able to make change from the inside. Both of those things are important. Protest is fundamentally a political act.

The critics don't build great cities

Unlike these powerful grown-ups, children have no ideologies to reinforce, no superstructure of political opinion to promote, no civic equanimity or image to defend, no personal reputation to secure.

Socialism and federalism are necessarily political opposites, because the former demands that centralized concentration of power which the latter by definition denies.

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.

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.

War...is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.

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.

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

When you see the political parties squabble, if a baby is not allowed to be born, all the other issues do not come into play.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

I dance as a political statement, because disabled bodies are inherently political, but I mostly dance for all the same reasons anyone else does: because it heals my spirit and fills me with joy.

Where you stand should not depend on where you sit.

Words are the soul's ambassadors, who go / Abroad upon her errands to and fro.

The United States should do whatever it is able to do to assist in the return of normal economic health in the world, without which there can be no political stability and no assured peace.

If Saddam Hussein committed crimes such as political oppression against the Iraqi people, it should be resolved legally in a fair and just manner which doesn't paint a sense of injustice

Our opinions agree as to the evil, moral, political, and economical, of slavery.

The peculiar danger of executive power is that it executes.

Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want.

And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups.

Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change.

Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.

I'm interested in telling the character's story, not my beliefs, political or otherwise.

People respond to political characters in archetypal ways. A fun game is to think of a politician and ask, "Which god is that? Are they like Aries? Are they like Athena?"

The less reasonable a cult is, the more men seek to establish it by force.