Political Quotes

I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.

What is a political party but a conspiracy?

THE REAL PURPOSE OF HOLOCAUST REVISIONISM IS TO MAKE NATIONAL SOCIALISM AN ACCEPTABLE POLITICAL ALTERNATIVE AGAIN.

It's unbelievable, there's a book out attacking Gore, when he's the most unfortunate loser in political history.

In my political life I spoke before leftist groups, before black activist groups that I disagreed with, to explain my position and to support my legislation.

The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.

There's only one kind of tax that would please everybody - one that nobody but the other guy has to pay.

The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation.

Ottawa - a sub-arctic lumber-village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit.

It is simply the truth that the political system that I am part of has degenerated to the point that it needs fundamental change.

The more fear confrontational activism can put into the heart of the political class, the better.

Political parties serve to keep each other in check, one keenly watching the other.

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.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

If Congress does its job in this regard, the residents of Puerto Rico will be empowered to act in their own self-interest and express their future political status aspirations accordingly.

Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.

If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.

Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.

Political men, like goats, usually thrive best among inequalities.

The strongest continuous thread in America's political tradition is skepticism about government.

What gets me is when celebrities aren't allowed to have an opinion on anything political. There's the whole 'Shut up and sing' thing.

Religious faith is an important aspect of American culture and a fact of American political life.

We tell our thoughts, like our children, to put on their hats and coats before they go out.

Bigotry is the sacred disease, and self-conceit tells lies.

Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy.

I never bought a man who wasn't for sale.

Neither in French nor in English nor in Mexican.

I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.

Our nation must come together to unite.

Our country will not stand for any political plan that includes amnesty for insurgents.

Fascism rewarded jackasses in uniform. Democracy gives privileges to those in sports' gear. In Italy, political regimes come to pass. Jackasses remain. Triumphant.

Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.

Today we say all art is political. But I'd say all art has to do with ethics. Which after all really comes to the same thing. It's a matter of attitudes.

We ought to make the pie higher.

Those who control the wealth of this society have an influence over political life far in excess of their number.

There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains.

Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

It may be that a more subtle person would find for this thing a reason of greater subtlety: but such is the reason that I find, and that liketh me best.