Political Quotes

Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.

The metaphysical image that a definite epoch forges of the world has the same structure as what the world immediately understands to be appropriate as a form of its political organization.

They want the federal government controlling the Social Security, like it's some kind of federal program.

I will have a foreign-handed foreign policy.

A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.

If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.

Because, you know, you're in Utah. And because of its political conservatism, if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.

Political differences will always generate a healthy debate, but over time the dialogue has become more hateful and at times violent.

No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.

From early on, everything I did was calculated to being elected to Congress.

Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.

The ability to change one's views without losing one's seat is the mark of a great politician.

It is not by the consolidation or concentration of powers but by their distribution that good government is effected.

Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.

Until politics are a branch of science, we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.

The superiority of the gold standard consists in the fact that the value of gold develops independent of political actions.

The woman who knew that I had dyslexia - I never interviewed her.

People always ask me 'do you think there should be more bands doing political music?' and I say 'absolutely not.'

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

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

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.

If there is one basic element in our Constitution, it is civilian control of the military.

Men cannot be treated as units in operations of political arithmetic because they behave like the symbols for zero and the infinite , which dislocate all mathematical operations.

What my political views or my constitutional views are just doesn't matter.

The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.

The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.

I think political science is bad at prediction. We don't gaze into a crystal ball. I do not believe that we predict things.