Political Quotes
Donald Trump pulled off an amazing political feat. He deserves tremendous credit for that.
There's no secret about my ambition, I do not want to go into the House of Commons. My only real political interest is in London and if one day I'm in a position to run for mayor, then terrific.
It's no coincidence that trust in government is at an all-time low now that the size of government is at an all-time high.
Look, of course people are scared of entitlement reform because every time you put entitlement reform out there, the other party uses it as a political weapon against you.
I cannot imagine a context that would some day, in some manner, make the monstrous crime of September 11 an understandable or comprehensible political act
Let's try winning and see what it feels like. If we don't like it, we can go back to our traditions.
What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists.
Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia.
Hikes in the debt ceiling - without any political demands from the opposition party - had been routine until President Obama took office.
My exile was not only a physical one, motivated exclusively by political reasons; it was also a moral, social, ideological and sexual exile.
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.
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.
Conservative Denyers and Delayers are the main reason America lacks the consensus and the political will to take up the fight against catastrophic climate change.
As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.
I would not want to live in a country that would have me as a leader in any sort of political bent.
I enjoyed the administrative work because it involved working with Congress, city council, and the mayor. I had never been a politician so it was fun - learning political maneuvering.
I'm not a politician. I'm not a policy wonk. I was a political reporter, but that's not really what turns me on. What turns me on is how people perceive the issue and how people see people like me.
A transitional government is the beginning of a transfer of sovereignty. It's a question of Iraqi security and moving forward with the political process.
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.
This party is a bit like an old stagecoach. If you drive along at a rapid rate everyone aboard is either so exhilarated or so seasick that you don't have a lot of difficulty.
Not all civil servants admire strong political leadership. But if you want to change things for the better you need strong political leadership.
We urgently need an integrated progressive political agenda if we are to have foundations for a more equitable, sustainable, caring world.
Clinton's fakery was so deft and deeply ingrained that it was impossible to tell where it ended and the real Bill Clinton began. This constituted a kind of political genius.
The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.
No political dreamer was ever wild enough to think of breaking down the lines which separate the States and compounding the American people into one common mass.
How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
I'm not really a political satirist. I don't kid myself. I'm more interested in doing the mannerisms and the personality.
