Political Quotes

The making of a human likeness on film is a political act.

Political Islam is not a homogeneous bloc.

We live in a world where there is a need for pluralistic institutions and for recognizing different types of freedom, economic, social, cultural, and political, which are interrelated.

Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.

I enjoy being around people who disagree with me; and I enjoy being in non-political contexts and activities.

White House political adviser Karl Rove was one of Robert Novak's sources for the 2003 disclosure of a CIA operative's identity, according to a story published today in "Duh" magazine.

He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.

In Europe it is particularly important that we build good relations to everyone who holds political responsibility because Europe can only be build together.

I will help the good fight continue until that long awaited moment arrives, when our rights are equal and when the political limits on love have been smashed.

It is very disturbing to see people use Christianity and the Bible to support a certain political agenda, especially when one cannot connect that agenda with the authentic teachings of Christ.

I never view aesthetic ideas as having an existence purely of their own but as a function they have in connection with political or moral values.

I have come to believe that politicians are in the business of 'marketing' their product to the public, by exaggerating threats and over-selling government solutions.

Old men declare war because they have failed to solve complex political and economic problems.

The word right should be excluded from political language, as the word cause from the language of philosophy.

The creator's concern is the conquest of nature. The parasite's concern is the conquest of men.

Paper is a check drawn by legal looters upon an account which is not theirs: upon the virtue of the victims. Watch for the day when it bounces, marked: 'Account Overdrawn.'

the distinction between rich nations and poor nations is one of the great dominant political and international themes of our century.

It is weird. A lot of people try to ask me political questions. Im not a politician.

As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.

Socially, a journalist ranks somewhere between the madam of a whorehouse and a bartender. but spiritually he ranks with Galileo, for he knows the world is round.

It's never easy dealing with terrorists, but it must be done through a mixture of political, economic and administrative means.

A political war can be fought from anywhere.

The Reservoir plan is an engineering mechanism applied to the field of economics, and in its essence it has nothing to do with democracy or any other political philosophy.

Totalitarian rule marks the sharpest contrast imaginable with political rule, and ideological thinking is an explicit and direct challenge to political thinking.

Women now wield considerable power along political lines and I believe each succeeding year for some time to come will find them wielding that power more effectively.

Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.

That Plato's Republic should have been admired, on its political side, by decent people, is perhaps the most astonishing example of literary snobbery in all history.

I'm a big believer that as much as possible, and there's obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing.

My dad was a city councilman and a county commissioner, so I grew up involved and engaged in the political process.

Germs do not have a political party.

When I die, I don't want my demise to be used as a political rally, and that's what happened yesterday.

I've never been a member of a political party, but people will superimpose on you what they want.

There you have it: an expensive higher education based on sloganeering, on pat, trite phrases that substitute moral posturing for political reasoning. It's elitism masquerading as egalitarianism.

Anyone who gets his or her political news primarily from the New York Times (which made the ethically challenged carpetbagger Hillary a senator) is a fool.

I want a minister to be in charge of a line department so they have clear political accountability.

I think leadership of any kind requires trust and transparency and voters should demand no less from their political leadership in government.

The Bible doesn't speak of "women's rights" in the social-political language we're used to hearing today. Still, that doesn't mean the Bible is silent on the subject.

A one-hour work-week...would minimize the damage that Congress can do.

I'm a politician, and as a politician I have the prerogative to lie whenever I want.

I'm very much a believer that it's action that matters much more so than, you know, the flurry of political promises and statements and slogans that are used during political campaigns.

Man is a means and not an end, and he is a means to economic or political ends which are not really ends in themselves but means to other ends which in their turn are means and so ad infinitum

If somebody's dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they're gonna have to take what they get.

I've always said: if we ignore the issues that people want us to talk about, then you will have movements outside of the establishment political parties grow.

If we had had the right technology back then, you would have seen Eva Braun on the Donahue show and Adolf Hitler on Meet the Press.

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

My parents always went to rallies and demonstrated against certain things; my generation, we often have a political conscience, but we're not that involved.

Christians in this country have found themselves under selective assault. God has, almost overnight, been removed from the educational, legal, and political institutions of the country.

Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.

I hope that just what I sing about and how I relate to my audience is as much of a political statement as I need to make.

Compared to the typical Zim/Chomsky-spouting grad school clown, a trucker with a screaming eagle hat is a paragon of political nuance.