Political Quotes

At its grandest, political correctness is an attempt to accelerate evolution.

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.

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.

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.

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

Political power goes much deeper than one suspects; there are centres and invisible, little-known points of support; its true resistance, its true solidity is perhaps where one doesn't expect it.

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.

Political campaigns are the graveyard of real ideas and the birthplace of empty promises.

If you read angry political blogs, substitute Obama with my daddy and you'll usually learn a lot about the author.

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

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

I stand by all the misstatements that I've made

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

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

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

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!

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.

Justice itself tends to be corrupted by political passion.

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.

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

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.

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.

Judges must be free from political intervention or intimidation.

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

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.

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

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.

Tears are not arguments.

President means chief servant

In any country, in any city, there will be political influence on what is said, what kind of images are to be projected and, yes, of course artists can be and are influenced by politicians.

To get people emotionally involved in something intellectual and political is important.

There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism.

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American working class.

Since the majority is always wrong, might we try one election day where all the losers take office?

Sociotropic voters with biased economic beliefs are more likely to produce severe political failures than are selfish voters with rational expectations.

Overheard in a Washington D.C. church confessional: "Bless me Father, for sins have been committed."

At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is today.

I think in this country [UK] we could do with rather less political correctness and more straight talking across the board.

To stay quiet is as political an act as speaking out.

You have to spend your political capital on great causes for your country.

You have to give the press confrontations. When you give them confrontations, you get attention; when you get attention, you can educate.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

I'm a powerful S.O.B., you know that?

I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.

It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.