Political Quotes

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

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

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

Men are joined by conviction, sundered by opinion.

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

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.

I've been described as a grizzled political veteran.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

I want to talk about political and economic fairy tales.

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

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.

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

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

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.

But always I was a private citizen whose activities in government or political party were appointive.

The great problem with government is that it never goes bankrupt.

All political and religious systems have their root and their strength in the innate conservatism of the human mind, and its intense fear of autonomy.

Lawyers should not be charged with the same crimes as their clients. Trials related to political charges are not in accordance with human rights.

The security intended to the general liberty consists in the frequent election and in the rotation of the members of Congress.

The personal is political.

Noam Chomsky skittles and skithers all over the political landscape to distract the reader’s attention from the plain truth.

The addability of the happiness of different subjects is a postulum without which all political reasonings are at a stand

Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States, is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to every religious sect.

We are seeking to avoid a new Cold War, avoid a new arms race, and, therefore, we continue to work for a more constructive relationship with Russia, including political dialogue with Russia.

I'm just not political. I have opinions, but there's nothing about the process that has ever interested me. I'm 22, and this is the first interview I've ever done in my life.

As a reader, I notice political views regardless of whether or not the book is fiction. What annoys me is when said views do nothing to advance the narrative.

The 2004 Election marks the first time in modern political history that Republican voter turnout matched Democratic turnout in a presidential election year.

From politics it was an easy step to silence.

Too much of our political debate...has become a race to the bottom. An exchange of insults and slanders more appropriate to reality television than a legislature.

The diversity of our cultures is Europe's greatest asset. We have to preserve this asset. And any political intervention that reduces this diversity is a loss to Europe.

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.

Nobody wants a judge to be subject to the political whim of the moment.

I am going to get political on you. Because I am the most shallow person in the world, my mission is to see men's formal wear change a little bit. It is too rigid! Everybody looks like a penguin!

If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political.

Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest ma to do.

Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to look at Haiti from a psychological perspective.

Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all.

The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.

The place to find the explanation for the liberal-activist mindset of the courts is in the political arena.

Especially now when views are becoming more polarized, we must work to understand each other across political, religious and national boundaries.

I don't think of the New Urbanism as an economic or political train wreck. I think of it as one of these great generational upheavals that's coming.