Political Quotes

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.

Even in political considerations, now-a-days, you have stronger motives to feel interested in the fate of Europe than in the fate of the Central or Southern parts of America.

It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism.

When politics are used to allocate resources, the resources all end up being allocated to politics.

Drugs. If they did not exist our governors would have invented them in order to prohibit them and so make much of the population vulnerable to arrest, imprisonment, seizure of property, and so on.

I made friends with a boy who was a communist when I was 13 and that broadened my political views, but it also brought me into conflict with my father who was very Right-wing.

Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.

Our political leaders must be honest and forthcoming with data that will allow citizens to use facts and figures to judge for themselves what state Social Security is in.

I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views.

Political matters are developing so fast that we must not let a single thing slip without use.

Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight losing battles as well as when you win.

No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.

I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor.

How does a country deal with the fact that some of its most revered historical figures had certain moral values and political views virtually identical to Nazis?

The media has a formula, they have a blueprint for destroying Republican political officials they don't like. It's not gonna work on Trump. He doesn't fit that mold.

One thing I resent is the slur that I just support political candidates because of the business.

I think that if everybody changed and tried to make their music political, it'd be kind of a bummer.

So I think we're, we're, we're as broad a political party, if not broader than the Democratic Party, just in a different political spectrum.

In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

I want to talk about political and economic fairy tales.

I have only one thing to say to the tax increasers: Go ahead, make my day.

Already, China has undermined U.S. foreign policy in efforts to gain access to oil resources in Iran and Sudan. We simply cannot separate the political and economic values of oil.

Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.

When you become active in the system and communicate to your representatives, and they don't vote in accordance with your values, your responsibility is to support candidates who will.

My father was a statesman, I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not.

One of the special characteristics of New York is that it is different from a London or a Paris because it's the financial capital, and the cultural capital, but not the political capital.

If you have political reform in the Islamic world, the spiritual reform would follow.

We have to give ourselves a constitution which marks the birth of Europe as a political entity.

Further-more, partisan attachments powerfully shape political perceptions, beliefs and values, and incumbents enjoy advantages well beyond the way in which their districts are configured.

There's no political point worth my son's life.

I've been described as a grizzled political veteran.

Today the story is no less attitude-adjusting. It is about the defining cultural, social and political issue of our age. It is about human transformation.

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.

Men are joined by conviction, sundered by opinion.

Ambition, and Covetousnesse are Passions that are perpetually incumbent, and pressing.

The President's political travel is going to get blamed (and probably rightly) for a share of this downturn.

Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.

First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.

One of the most annoying habits of liberals is their tendency to confuse their political agenda with moral virtue.

One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

As I have tried to show, science, in producing the airplane and the wireless, has created a new international political environment to which governments must adjust their foreign policies.

Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.

Free and just political institutions are absolutely essential to the progress and development both of the individual and of the race.

We, the people, are the boss, and we will get the kind of political leadership, be it good or bad, that we demand and deserve.

I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.

Mudslinging - In politics, anything bad the opponent says about our candidate; in contrast, when our candidate does this, it is called 'making a good point.

Unlike the Reagan and Bush Administrations, with but one exception, the Clinton administration failed to reach out to Republicans in creating a new team, and eventually paid a political price.

Earlier in my political career, I had the opportunity to read the speech, and I almost threw up.

They that possess the prince possess the laws.