Political Quotes

In these times, the hardest task for social or political activists is to find a way to get people to wonder again about what we all believe is true. The challenge is to sow doubt.

I love the environment, but I'm cheap on the environment.

I'm of the opinion that if you step on stage and you're not a straight white male, you're automatically making a political statement whether you know it or not.

The danger of loss of faith in God is not that one will believe in nothing, but rather that one will believe in anything.

If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.

What America needs is a political revolution.

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

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.

Political renegades always start their career of treachery as 'the best men of all parties' and end up in the Tory knackery.

In some of the countries where we operate, there is a tradition of corruption, in which the political elites work with business in the framework of unsavory relationships.

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

Climate change has taken on political dimensions. That's odd because I don't see people choosing sides over E=Mc2 or other fundamental facts of science.

It's very important to vote. People died for this right.

Because we believe that our ethnic group, our society, our political party, our God, is better than your God, we kill each other.

The killer bees have gone, like rats deserting the Titanic.

Personal religious convictions have no place in political campaigns or in dictating public policy.

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.

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.

The only organized political party with a Christian vision of morality is the Libertarian Party.

Where do politicians come from? Why, they come from Uranus!

"I wouldn't be in your position" - old saw. If there is any political move that I would advocate it would be an alliance between America and Red China, if they'd have us.

We hold that the Constitution does not forbid the states minor intrusions into an individual's body under stringently limited conditions.

Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.

Sure, things could always have been done better, but I just wish people would drop their political hammers for a few weeks, as happened in 2001, and work on the problem at hand

Every time Bush talks about trust it makes chills run up and down my spine. The way he has trampled on the truth is a travesty of the American political system.

I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.

It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied.

If we disagree and I think I'm right, I just go ahead and do what I think is right. And then she tells me, 'I told you so.'

Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.

Cisco has not and does not design products for the purpose of political censorship.

Ho Chi Minh sought to defeat both adversaries [French and American] primarily by using diplomatic and political means, combined with paramilitary activities.

There are as many jobs for younger Americans as there are for other Americans of every age group in political campaigns. Campaigns are very labor intensive and volunteer dependent.

For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.

When has a Democratic political activist been poisoned by the GOP, or vice versa? We are not the same as #Putin.

Civil disobedience is a viable political tactic, and a non-violent tactic.

It has been years since I have seen anyone who could even look as if he were in love. No one's face lights up any more except for political conversation.

I also love the makers of South Park, because they're political, strong, and they're making all of these comments that would get you shot for if you did it in a drama.

Psychology, which explains everything, Explains nothing, And we are still in doubt.

Political system is contrary to everything a feminine heart stands for. It lacks tenderness. It lacks poetry. It doesn't nurture. It doesn't love. And without those things, a woman's soul is bereft.

I am tired of the constant demonizing of people via political labels.

In the harshest possible terms, I condemn political killings.

Prison guard unions have become the powerful political forces in some states, particularly California.

The Federalists also used bribes, intimidation, and fraud against opponents of the Constitution.

No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.

There is a long American tradition of suspicion of concentrated economic power because of its tendency to corrupt government and turn it from a democracy into a plutocracy.

My involvement in the political arena is to make sure there's a place for culture.

We’ve always been involved with issues that deal with the fundamental human rights of people, whether that means the right to political freedom or the right to breathe air that’s clean.

Even when conservatives have all the marbles, they still act as if they're under siege. Now that they are under siege, it is no time for them to act as if they're losing their marbles.

We're an ideal political family, as accessible as Disneyland.

Whether you are a business leader or political leader, you need people around you who are prepared to tell the truth.