Political Quotes
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.
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?
I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared
Specialization makes the welfare of the society vulnerable to the market and to political forces beyond national control.
I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal prejudices. I do not, however, value them.
I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due.
My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility.
The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.
The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross.
Democrats were simply hoping to win some political points by getting their outlandish rhetoric published in the newspapers and heard on the talk shows.
2004 was a great year for Boston! The Patriots won the Super Bowl! Boston hosted its first national political convention! And - the Red Sox won the World Series!
There is a great deal of political pressure to only talk about abstinence, and to deny support for condoms and education on using them. This policy will lead to the unnecessary deaths of many people.
Earlier in my political career, I had the opportunity to read the speech, and I almost threw up.
We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own ... in order to create this common ground.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt
I figured out Karl Rove's political strategy -- make gas so expensive, no Democrats can afford to go to the polls.
I feel like musicians have such a precarious place in the political discourse, because musicians are, sort of just by nature, people-pleasers.
No poll can equal the day-to-day visits of the men and women of the Democratic Party.
You will expect me to discuss the late election. Well, as nearly as I can learn, we did not have enough votes on our side.
Political corruption is to Rhode Islanders as smog is to people who live in Los Angeles: nobody complains of its absence, but when it rolls around everyone feels right at home.
In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses society's feelings, beliefs, and hopes in perfect harmony.
I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life.
The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter.
The day that witnesses the conversion of our ministers into political and philosophical speculators or scientific lecturers, will witness the final decay of clerical weight and influence.
Theres no particular relationship between spending and educational results. Most education spending is actually on salaries, and thats allocated according to political muscle.
Any political agenda and organization which doesn't begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It's just not going to succeed.
The difference between a politician and a pickpocket is that a pickpocket doesn't always get indignant when you tell him to keep his hands to himself.
The real problem that I think those of us who are evangelicals and Democrats have to face up to is that the political right controls the religious media.
In my experience of these things, parties which shout about dirty tricks and the like tend to do so because they fear a direct hit in some vulnerable part of their political anatomy.
I don't think I'm a political songwriter as much as I am just a political person. I think it's in my fabric.
The pursuit of health is a symptom of unhealth. When this pursuit is no longer a personal yearning but part of state ideology, healthism for short, it becomes a symptom of political sickness.
The decision to use the atom bomb on Japanese cities, and the consequent buildup of enormous nuclear arsenals, was made by governments, on the basis of political and military perceptions.
Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions.
After long experience of politics, I have never found that there is any inhibition caused by ignorance as regards criticism.
Political struggle is the most important thing any of us can do as a citizen in a democracy; and that means the old joining the young to fight for elemental kinds of justice.