Political Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

I was considering running for political office.

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

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

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

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

[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.

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.

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.

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

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!

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.

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.

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy.

My top priority for 2012 will be to make a renewed push for women's economic empowerment and political participation.

Baseball is our national pastime, that is if you discount political campaigning.

The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

Don't worry about polls, but if you do, don't admit it.

My political views have since I was a kid someway or another reflected the concerns of Tea Party movement.

The Senate is a remarkable institution. It is unique. There is no other body, no other political body, no other democratic legislature in the world quite like the U.S. Senate.

It's impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time.

Migration is a feature of globalisation. You can’t stop it; so every time a political party says it is going to be tough on immigration, it fails to deliver and loses trust.

No one should ever be disrespected.

Vision is not political rhetoric.

I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.

In Europe, anti-Americanism is much more a hobgoblin of the political, cultural, and religious elites.

Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.

The British electors will not vote for a man who does not wear a hat.

I think it's always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it's very dangerous to treat as traitors to the American nation those who think differently.

It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.

Even a little dog can piss on a big building.

The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.

Wicked ones are like fire. Even if pu on hea, they burn only. They do not leave unhurt even their well - wishers and benefactors.

You are Americans. You love this country. Together we are entrusted with the principles that represent mankind's greatest political and social achievement.

The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.

The Government, being resolved to undertake the political and moral purification of our public life, are creating and securing the conditions necessary for a really profound revival of religious life

Our political correct society is acting like some giant insult's taken place by calling a bunch of people who are retards, retards...There's going to be a retard summit at the White House.

The political health of Britain has deteriorated very sharply. The Conservative Party must do something about it. I am the man to do it.

Journalists are simply leftists disguised as reporters. They're political activists disguised as reporters.

A person or a ruler who executes his plans (of public welfare) after due consideration, the prosperity stands with him for a longer period.

The fantastic political and economic burdens imposed by that treaty have entirely disillusioned the German people and annihilated its belief in justice.

A man or a ruler should always take up a task after thoroughly considering its consequences. Otherwise fate also cannot protect his wealth.

Just like Tim Robbins is very political - and obviously, Arnold Schwarzenegger must be - I want to be able to have this public personality that's considered authoritative.

If Voting Changed Anything They'd Abolish It