Political Quotes

The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.

After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.

In conclusion, the arms of others either fall from your back, or they weigh you down, or they bind you fast.

In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well.

It is an eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it

There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties.

I am not one who - who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.

The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.

I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice.

Unfortunately, the reality was that, for political reasons or whatever, there was a need to enforce antidiscrimination laws, or at least there was a perceived need to do that.

So my degree was in political science, which I think was - the closest I could come to marketing is politics.

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.

People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven't given much thought to the connections.

People don't even know that we have political prisoners.

Judges must be free from political intervention or intimidation.

Political discourse has been reduced to "Where's the beef?" "Read my lips," and "Make my day." Where are the assassins when we really need them?

The notion of a defense that will protect American cities is one that will not be achieved, but it is that goal that supplies the political magic, as it were, in the president's vision.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

The Canadian people are more practical than imaginative. Romantic tales and poetry would meet with less favour in their eyes than a good political article from their newspapers.

Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.

The big political news, Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he's running for governor of California, and already, people are chanting, 'Four more vowels, four more vowels.

There is no surer method of economizing and saving money than in the reduction of the number of officials.

Justice itself tends to be corrupted by political passion.

No economic, political or military power can compare with the power of a change of mind

I have the thermometer in my mouth and I am listening to it all the time.

At the time of German Reunification, it was no secret that Germany would soon become the strongest political entity in the European Union. And that has happened.

[T]he more one is conscious of one's political bias, the more chance one has of acting politically without sacrificing one's aesthetic and intellectual integrity.

I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I'm telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!

I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.

There is no safe political refuge for those afraid to take responsibility for their own lives.

The Church is not a political power, nor a political party, but rather a moral reality, a moral force.

Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.

I stand by all the misstatements that I've made

The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism.

The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument... an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.

The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, and in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age.

I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.

I expect that in 40 years' time I'll be writing political tomes and working for an organisation like Oxfam.

Today most funding for science comes through government. That means that you have to be known to be sympathetic to conclusions that are acceptable to the political classes.

In my view, a corporation is not a person. A corporation does not have First Amendment rights to spend as much money as it wants, without disclosure, on a political campaign.

The political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes.

That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.

By the very nature of government schooling, the matter of what goes into school textbooks must necessarily be a political matter, to be decided by those I political power.

I grow more and more suspicious of the political powers that take men away from their work and set them shooting one another.

Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by modes of human contrivance.

What the world, social and political, concrete and mental, really needs is not new things, but the old things made new.

Jesus is no draughtsman of political blueprints, he is the one who vanquished evil through suffering. It looked as though evil had triumphed on the cross, but the real victory belonged to Jesus.