Political Quotes

I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs.

Haitians weren't screwed-up, but everything political, intellectual, and material around them is.

Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy

Gandhi saw how people have to re-think their own individuality before engaging in political activity. Otherwise they're just playing the game that the adversary has set out.

He is lofty, and I am eminent.

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.

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

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

I have impeached myself by resigning.

Take it from me, every vote counts.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

For violence or fraud can create no right.

I did it for political, moral reasons, thinking that I was making this great sacrifice, but it was absolutely necessary; I was not going to contribute to the violence in the world anymore.

An acquired taste, this dense Jabberwocky-ish word salad is a political allegory about a populace that's been pharmaceutically duped into believing its wretched world is wonderful.

Disloyalty is the secret weapon of the Tory Party.

Political debate is more interested in manipulating the truth, than finding the truth.

Not to say that you should be constantly trying to change the world, but I think it's important to know that whatever we do has an implication and has an effect, and because of that it is political.

It's a deft trick to turn American exceptionalism into an exceptional political tactic.

Obama has not accomplished a key mission: sell his own successes and keep his own (political) troops fired up and ready to go.

Conservatism is not a political ideology, it is a severe form of brain damage for which there's hardly any cure.

Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.

The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage.

We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much.

When only cops have guns, it's called a "police state".

No political party can possibly lead a great revolutionary movement to victory unless it possesses revolutionary theory and knowledge of history and has a profound grasp of the practical movement.

I am nervous about dogmas of any kind, whether they be religious, political, or anti-religious. Too many heads have rolled because of them.

There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues.

If they are too big to fail, make them smaller.

American cities are kind of difficult contexts to work in. They are politically complex. There are a lot of different interest groups. It takes immense political skill to get anything done at all.

The nation demands a movement which has written upon its banner the internal and external national freedom that it will act as if it were the spiritual, social and political conscience of the nation.