Political Quotes

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Protection and patriotism are reciprocal.

I'm not into smoke-filled rooms. I don't have the time for byzantine political intrigues.

The place where the system and people's intentions meet is the political arena.

The more dynamic the capitalistic expansion, the greater the disparity. It is from the disparity that we are going to get all the political upheaval for the next few years.

I don't see how anybody cannot be political in this day and age. There's so much going on and you have to be aware and you have to vote. Our lives are political.

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.

Tears are not arguments.

I say that justice is truth in action.

I'm particularly committed to the political people who needed defense. I understand that they're fighting a bigger war than just, "Let me go get some money for cocaine tonight."

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

The true measure of a city is its soul. This is the restless energy that doesn't wait for political leadership.

People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs people of self-esteem.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I have allowed the president to pick his political appointees…But I will not sit quietly and let him shred the Constitution.

New!Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.

Catch and release fishing may be cruelty masquerading as political correctness

That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman.

I ask everyone with political responsibility to remember two things: human dignity and the common good.

The agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order.

My personal political convictions are rooted in the populist political traditions of western Canada.

The US and the European Union needs to help in the translation of the demand for democracy into a political will.

Over the course of two terms, President Reagan revolutionized the Republican Party and changed the political atmosphere in a way still being felt today.

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society

We need a reform of the Security Council. It must be perceived as truly representative by all the 191 member states, to uphold the credibility and legitimacy of the UN as the main political arena.

I believe that women should have equal rights to education, to work and to civic and political engagement.

So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the sake of noble actions.

If you have political convictions... keep 'em to yourself

It seems very unfortunate that in order to secure political preference, people are made Vice President who are never intended, neither by party nor by the Lord, to be Presidents.

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

The best test of whether someone is extremely stupid (or extremely wise) is whether financial and political news makes sense to him.

Statism, which forces all of us within its orbit, is nothing but a political system of organized plunder, managed by every conceivable type of pressure group.

There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia,' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.

Modern definitions of truth, such as those as pragmatism and instrumentalism, which are practical rather than contemplative, are inspired by industrialisation as opposed to aristocracy.