Political Quotes
A State divided into a small number of rich and a large number of poor will always develop a government manipulated by the rich to protect the amenities represented by their property.
I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.
Saying the Washington Post is just a newspaper is like saying Rasputin was just a country priest.
A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.
Catholicism is more than a religion, it is a political power. Therefore I'm led to believe there will be no peace in Ireland until the Catholic Church is crushed
A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.
Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.
I'm very open about my politics. I don't believe in any political party at all, none of them.
Nothing could be more ill-judged than that intolerant spirit which has, at all times, characterized political parties.
Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.
To run an effective political party you need a degree of tribalism, it's the glue that holds everyone together.
Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.
Silence in the face of atrocity is not neutrality; silence in the face of atrocity is acquiescence.
Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting.
Republicans want smaller government for the same reason crooks want fewer cops; it's easier to get away with murder.
Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.
How the American right managed to convince itself that the programs to alleviate poverty are responsible for the consequences of poverty will someday be studied as a notorious mass illusion.
Political correctness is just tyranny with manners. I wish for you the courage to be unpopular. Popularity is history's pocket change. Courage is history's true currency.
The first Decline I did was out of sheer love and appreciation for the music. In 1977, it was more about bands, because punk was a new form of music. It was groundbreaking and political.
What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.
Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.
The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.
My political sentiments inclined toward the left and emphasized the socialist aspects every bit as much as nationalist ones.
We must unite. Violence against women cannot be tolerated, in any form, in any context, in any circumstance, by any political leader or by any government.
One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.
The political philosophy of black nationalism means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community; no more.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
Even if we have to go without bread, we Albanians do not violate principles. We do not betray Marxism - Leninism.
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
It would be nice to spend billions on schools and roads, but right now that money is desperately needed for political ads.
The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
We must now face the difficult task of moving towards a single economy, a single political entity .. For the first time since the fall of the Roman Empire we have the opportunity to unite Europe.
There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by the laws, or in which political institutions can prove a substitute for common sense and public morality.
Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn a good rule: 'Don't decide what you don't have to decide.' That's not evasion, it's wisdom.
The IRA has abandoned its armed struggle in pursuit of its goals by political means. This must be fully acknowledged. Continued challenge does nothing but obstruct and inhibit the peace process.
