Political Quotes

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

Look at the number of cop shows and lawyer shows and forensics shows... I think there could be room for two quite different examinations of the same political office.

The peculiar danger of executive power is that it executes.

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

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

In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest. That's bad news for everyone else - and for our democracy itself.

Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.

We have two political parties in this country, the Stupid Party and the Evil Party. I belong to the Stupid Party.

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?"

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

Capital dictates the fate of humanity.

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

Is it better to be loved or feared?

Marriage is no substitute for political experience.

All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.

Many reporters, when they go to work in the nation's capital, begin thinking of themselves as participants in the political process instead of glorified stenographers.

Times have changed; so must the lenses through which we see the political future.

Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.

I never forget that I live in a house owned by all the American people and that I have been given their trust.

Boundary, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of another.

Fashion has a political role insofar as following it can give you the impression to belonging to a certain social group or a private club.

The government are behaving like a bevy of maiden aunts who have fallen among buccaneers.

I always thought that writing poetry was in itself a political act.

Once you become an immigrant, the first thing that is taken from you is the opportunity to talk about politics and to talk about yourself as a political being.

Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs.

Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.

Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.

Ideas really do matter. But in any organization a good idea will only go so far unless its proponents are willing to fight the political games to get the idea adopted.

I'm not a leftist; I'm where the righteous ought to be.

Every political edict which is not based upon nature is wrong.

Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty.

He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.

We must win rulers; political, economic, scientific, artistic personalities. They are the engineers of souls. They mold the souls of men. Winning them, you win the people they lead and influence.

I am a part of the political process whether the multinational forces are present or not. Politics is serving the people, not chairs and positions.

A rising tide (in the economy) lifts all boats.

The politician who steals is worse than a thief. He is a fool. With all the grand opportunities around for the man with a political pull, there's no excuse for stealin' a cent.

I have sacrificed everything in my life that I consider precious to advance the political career of my husband.

Take it from me, every vote counts.

I have impeached myself by resigning.

You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.

Feminism has led the way in demystifying personal relations, forcefully insisting they are political to the core.

My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.

He is lofty, and I am eminent.

The corniest movie ever made about the white man's need to lose his identity and assuage racial, political, sexual and historical guilt.

The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

Too many people in Washington are full of themselves, among other things that they are full of.

There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment.

With virtually no knowledge of or interest in history, the masses simply take their unprecedented high living standards under capitalism for granted.