Political Quotes
Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the political leaders consistently refused to engage in good-faith negotiation.
Most of the Palestinians don't understand what they're doing... Politically, people can say what they want. The problem is not political, but religious.
A party is a political tool. If it's no longer useful, it should be crumpled up and thrown away.
The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.
Africans require, want, the franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independence.
Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!
I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.
Let it be immediately added, however, that this economic independence and prosperity has always been absolutely associated in the American mind with free political institutions.
Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes.
After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history.
When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.
The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.
I think we Americans, of all people, understand the importance of a good, legal, constitutional framework as the basis of political life.
Most of what needs to be changed in the euro zone can be done without treaty changes. The demand for treaty change is as political as it is legal and I don't think it's going to happen soon.
I have three favorite politicians: Reagan, Truman, and Bobby Kennedy - Bobby for showing remarkable political courage despite being loathed by many on both sides.
Too often, Indian tribes are at the mercy of the shifting political winds of State government.
After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas.
Down the road, I'll probably have a kid or two or three. And there will probably be political events or spiritual things to comment on, and humor.
As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.
With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.
There's a difference between an outburst of spontaneous anger, which doesn't have a political objective, and a more measured response that we saw in the Occupy Wall Street movement.
The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.
Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.
Telecom is a dramatic success in India and our view is, respecting the political process, and respecting the fact that these are sovereign decisions, is that, approaching India as a friend.
A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.
One of the things that I've been doing over the past few years is reevaluating my own powers of political analysis.
Gentleness brings victory to him who attacks, and safety to him who defends. Those whom Heaven would save, it fences round with gentleness.
It doesn't matter where we begin the personal/political circle, but it matters desperately that we complete it.
A mother-in-law is better than a single and childless political persona, though.
The only organized political party with a Christian vision of morality is the Libertarian Party.
You know, I really do have some morals. I do actually care about people. And I do have a political standpoint.
Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.
Particle physics suffers more from being infected by the socio-political mood of the day than from lack of spectacular opportunities for major and profound discoveries.
Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight losing battles as well as when you win.
Personal religious convictions have no place in political campaigns or in dictating public policy.
If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.
It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism.
What seems fair enough against a squalid huckster of bad liquor may take on a different face, if used by a government determined to suppress political opposition under the guise of sedition.