Political Quotes

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.

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

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.

President means chief servant

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.

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.

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

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

Protection and patriotism are reciprocal.

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

That is why I come forward tonight without any political label, without any bias, but just simply as an Englishman to say to you: a crime is being committed against civilization.

So, these political activities will create friction in and of themselves, and in this environment of friction there'll be additional violence.

Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.

It's no secret that I've become known for my strong political views.

In Northern Ireland, people said there would never be a solution. But once people begin to have the political will and force their governments to sit down, it can happen.

Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this . . .

To those who had ordered them to death, one of them said: “We die because the people are asleep and you will die because the people will awaken.”

Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.

Take your hurt feelings and channel them into political activism.

It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.

I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research.

There is no cause so good or noble that it will not attract fuggheads; and the fuggheads will get all the press.

Without a visual identity, we have no community, no support network, no movement. Making ourselves visible is a political act, making ourselves visible is a continual process.

Hitler's economic revolution in Germany had reduced financial considerations to a point where they played no role in economic or political decisions

If there are such things as political axioms, the propriety of the judicial power of a government being co-extensive with its legislative, may be ranked among the number.

Intellectual slavery, of whatever nature it may be, will always have as a natural result both political and social slavery.

I do not have much confidence in the political system and never did. My goal has always been to change people's minds because as long as people demand more government, they will get it.

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people.

The American way is to criticize and debate openly, not to accept unthinkingly the doings of government officials of this or any other country.

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy.

This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

The democratic process on which this nation was founded should not be restricted to the political process, but should be applied to the industrial operation as well.

Let's face it: Many on the political right believe this president ought not to be there - they oppose him not for his polices and political view but for who he is, an African American!

My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

Schools need not preach political doctrine to defend democracy. If they shape men capable of critical thought and trained in social attitudes, that is all that is necessary.

One of the strongest and most persistent elements in national development has been that inheritance of political traditions and usages which the new settlers brought with them.

[the downfall of our political system is the] buying and selling of politicians...bribery. In the private sector, you're arrested for it. In the public sector, it's the norm.

This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no other

I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness.

If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.

I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman.

I was considering running for political office.

But recently it seems that each time I vote, I am being asked to compromise my conservative ideals and my commitment to the American taxpayer simply for the benefit of political gain.

Let's pass a bill to cover the moon with yogurt that will cost $5 trillion today. And then let's pass a bill the next day to cancel that bill. We could save $5 trillion.

It's not so unusual to run out of someone else's currency.

I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.

Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.

The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.

I just love movies, so suddenly, you’re political about movies, and that’s dark. It’s just not fun when something you love becomes calculated.