Political Quotes

Everyone's quick to blame the alien.

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence.

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.

No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in government than in politics.

Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?

Nowhere is it written that NATO had to accept certain countries. All that would have been required to refrain from doing so was the political will. But people didn't want to.

The father receives his power from God (and from his own father). The teacher finds the soil already prepared for obedience, and the political leader has only to harvest what has been sown.

The politician is an acrobat. He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does.

History causes the military problem to become the essence of the political problem.

Sistani’s office refuses the replacement of the law because it is not an Iraqi demand but it is a political demand to please some sides.

If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.

In Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one is arrested or jailed for his or her speech or point of view. They are put in jail because they violated the law.

If you do not force political freedom, economic freedom will be stymied sooner or later.

Majority of the African countries are now enjoying stable governance. Before you talk about economic growth, political stability is key.

Imagine me going around with a pot belly. It would mean political ruin.

I'm conservative, but I'm not a nut about it.

Not to have a correct political point of view is like having no soul.

Any serious social, political, and economic change must include veganism.

Political correctness is the the inability to state certain truths because they may offend certain people

In America you can say anything you want - as long as it doesn't have any effect.

Using political tools to change social conditions won't work.

The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.

I have no political aspirations. Thats it.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

I hope I make films where you walk away . . . with work to do, arguments to have, things to worry about, things to care about. In that sense, I would regard what I do as political.

I was an anti-communist before I was political in other ways.

Over and above the political, economic, sociological, and international implications of racial prejudices, their major significance is that they place unnecessary burdens upon human beings.

Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought.

A tin horn politician with the manner of a rural corn doctor and the mien of a ham actor

The only true allegiance a politician has is to his own re-election.

The things you refuse to meet today always come back at you later on, usually under circumstances which make the decision twice as difficult as it originally was.

The two main ideas that run through all of my writing, whether it be literary criticism or political polemic are these: I am strong in favor of liberty and I hate fraud.

Only a cheap politician, greedy for political gain, would try to single out one individual for blame. The fault lies not with the individual but with the system, and that system is Richard Nixon.

Hollywood desires money but they could not stand the political content.

I'm not a Republican because I grew up rich, but because I didn't want to spend the rest of my life poor, waiting for the government to rescue me.

I have tremendous admiration for everyone who enters the political arena so long as their goal is to do what they believe is right for the people of New York.

We deal with a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights-older than our political parties, older than our school system.

There is little doubt that the majority of Mr. Mills supporters in 1865 did not know what his political opinions were, and that they voted for him simply on his reputation as a great thinker.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams

The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

Political courage is not political suicide.

To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.

I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.

Without economic development, any potential for political openness and freedom will be questionable.

I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.'