Political Quotes

I want to be an advocate for the people who don't have time to read the newspaper... or the money to make a political contribution.

There is room for words on subjects other than last words.

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

Wall Street has too much wealth and political power.

It is the nature of physics to hear the loudest of mouths over the most comprehensive ones.

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.

I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one.

Throughout the world, the family is increasingly under attack. If families fail, many of our political, economic, and social systems will also fail.

Money is the fuel that makes political victory possible. Sadly, folks, in many cases it's more important than ideas. And this is what turns off so many people to politics.

We are not to consider ourselves, while here, as at church or school, to listen to the harangues of speculative piety; we are here to talk of the political interests committed to our charge.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning.

It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom.

There's no such thing as legacies. At least, there is a legacy, but I'll never see it.

This, by the way, is the welfare state in action: Its a whole bunch of special interest groups screwing consumers and taxpayers, and making them think they're really benefiting.

For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.

The fact that Hitler was a political genius unmasks the nature of politics in general as no other fact can.

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

I am a woman that defends animals, right, left, and in the centre. Animals aren't political.

It's OK to not be political unless your country is falling apart.

The public still ultimately determines what happens to you politically, by virtue of the casting of their vote ... and you cannot ever predict what will move the public in one direction or another.

Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.

Hatred is not contained in political thinking. Any hatred worked up against the public enemy is non-political, and always shows some weakness in the internal political situation.

Compromise: An agreement between two men to do what both agree is wrong.

The equally is a political theory, but no a practical politics.

Circumstances in the world of politics contribute substantially to whether or not you can be successful.

The media, far from being a conspiracy to dull the political sense of the people, could be viewed as a conspiracy to disguise the extent of political indifference.

The best thing about this group of candidates is that only one of them can win.

If . . . a principle of true Religion [i.e., true Christianity] should . . . gain ground, there is no estimating the effects on public morals, and the consequent influence on our political welfare.

History is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed.

America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.

The disgrace of one's people brings sorrow to the Nobel minded.

Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.

Policies that support families aren't political issues. They're personal. They're the causes I carry with me every single day.

And thirdly, the FDA occasionally does some genuine public good with whatever energies it has left over after serving the vested political and commercial interest of its first two activities.

Political power means the capacity to regulate national life through national representatives.

Either we figure out how to keep corporate cash out of the political system or we lose the democracy.

The parallel existence and mutual interaction of "state" and "market" in the modern world create "political economy"; without both state and market there could be no political economy.

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State.

There is no sense in making statements that will not continue to be true after they are made.

Every American should have above average income, and my Administration is going to see they get it.

I've been doing the 'Sherman's Lagoon' strip for about 18 years, and I was a political cartoonist before that for my hometown paper in Alexandria, Va.

We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena.

We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.

I like the job. That's what I'll miss the most... I'm not sure anybody ever liked this as much as I've liked it.

Political changes and reforms do not usually favor the general populace. They benefit those who are positioned to best organize and advocate for their policies.

One can be inclined to just say, "F this political correctness! I don't have time for that!"

Some foreign states will act against a dictatorship only to gain their own economic, political, or military control over the country.