Political Quotes

I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.

Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police.

Pledge allegiance to your principles, your family, your faith, but don't be foolish enough to pledge allegiance to a gang of thieves.

Education is very political, because when you educate the people, then you have a country that you can't fool anymore.

The terms of peace may be negotiated by political leaders, but the fate of peace is up to each of us.

Some of my earliest political feelings were based on the anti-Japanese bubblegum cards I got. There were also Spanish Civil War bubblegum cards. Awful.

My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home. We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we'd discuss it with our parents.

The most radical political act there is is to be an optimist. The most radical political act there is is to believe that, if I change, other people will follow suit.

I love the sharpness and political tone of RoboCop and I think that such a film is now urgently needed.

It is imperative that good people, men and women of principle, be involved in the political process; otherwise we abdicate power to those whose designs are almost entirely selfish.

Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.

I learned that the political is above the legal, that's why when my advisors tell me, Evo, what you are doing is illegal, I say, if it is illegal, then do it legal, you have studied for that".

A Republic, if you can keep it.

I had rather be right than be President.

The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.

Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.

Oh how I wish he (Franklin Pierce) was out of political life! How much better it would be for him on every account!

The people are angry. It's running out of control. And unfortunately, there are a group of police that have become nothing more than enforcers for the political and financial crime bosses.

It's crucial to understand that as a society, we can reorganize. We can reorganize socially, politically, and economically, and we can reorganize according to our values.

I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that does not have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular.

.. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition.

The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.

Ever since I've had any political awareness, I've felt either alone or part of a tiny minority.

I believe in the power of great art to transcend geographical boundaries, political differences and even the restrictions of time.

I want my pictures to cut through political abstractions... and make a connection on a human level.

The unforgivable political sin is vanity, the killer diet is sour grapes.

I've never done anything so political before. I've spent years shouting my mouth off about serious issues over dinner tables but never really had the confidence to express my views in a song.

Donald Trump's fought maybe the greatest political machine in the history of the world.

[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.

I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship.

One does not have to be a Marxist to know there is something very wrong in this society.

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.

I stand for all people even if it causes me political heartburn - and I'm going to do that no matter what my future holds.

Being a son of the pastor, I was never allowed to play Joseph or any of the big parts for political reasons.

Everything popular is wrong.

The struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma is a struggle for life and dignity. It is a struggle that encompasses our political, social and economic aspirations.

As to my political faith- I have never voted. My father was a Democrat, my mother a Republican, and I am an Episcopalian.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

And I know that the younger generation is doing things that are so ingenious. And for them it's not a matter of a political belief or an environmental stance. It's really just common sense.

Political columnists and sports pundits are rewarded for being overconfident.

If supporters of equality for women want to vote for the best candidate, they must look to a person regardless of gender and must disregard the gender of political opponents.

Give us what belongs to us in peace, and if you don't give it to us in peace, we will take it by force.

Are Latino-Americans white? Black? Other? Illegal aliens from Mars? Or are we the very face of America?

Any political party that undertakes to do it will, in God's name, be trampled, as it ought to be trampled, into the dust of condemnation, now and in the future.

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.

I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.

I look back on my liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder - as another exercise in self-involvement - rewarding myself for some superiority I could not logically describe.

By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.

Man is a thinking animal, a talking animal, a toolmaking animal, a building animal, a political animal, a fantasizing animal. But, in the twilight of a civilization he is chiefly a taxpaying animal.