Political Quotes

The taxing power of the Federal Government, my dear; the taxing power is sufficient for everything you want and need.

There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.

The big moment came when it was decided to paint...Just To Paint. The gesture on the canvas was a gesture of liberation, from Value- political, aesthetic, moral.

Peace depends ultimately not on political arrangements but on the conscience of mankind.

Whenever a man reaches the top of the political ladder, his enemies unite to pull him down. His friends become critical and exacting.

Liberty, whether natural, civil, or political, is the lawful power in the individual to exercise his corresponding rights. It is greatly favored in law.

My commitment to the Olympics is not a political commitment. It's not a commitment to any particular social system or cultural idea. It is a commitment to sport.

I court not the votes of the fickle mob.

Angela Merkel and the CDU are not our political adversaries. The CDU and the CSU are sister parties.

I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.

They were not mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, they were absent in the Constitution and they were invisible in the new political democracy. They were the women of early America.

The interest of the people lies in being able to join organizations, advocate causes, and make political "mistakes" without being subjected to governmental penalties.

There can be no unified southeastern Europe without Yugoslavia, and everything else is a continuation of political blackmail with which the Serb people and Yugoslavia were faced all these years.

Yugoslavia and Serbia will fight against terrorists regardless of whether a political agreement is reached or not.

It seems very obvious that a vast majority of the American people are sick and tired of political correctness and prevailing partisanship that does not serve the American people or freedom well.

I think we need someone in a responsible political position to have the courage to say, 'Let's terminate human spaceflight.'

Hundreds of poor laboring men and women are being thrown into jails and police stations because of their political beliefs. In fact, an attempt is being made to deport an entire political party.

For some reason when it comes to democracy, we seem to think that political knowledge doesn't make any kind of difference or we shouldn't say that it does, like it would hurt people's feelings.

Like in [the 1950s] if you wanted to ruin someone´s career in Hollywood you claimed he was a Communist. Nowadays, you want to ruin someone´s career in Hollywood, you claim they are Republican.

The use of EU summits to frame political victories or defeats is an annoying habit.

If you begin by saying, 'Thou shalt not lie,' there is no longer any possibility of political action.

A writer who takes political, social or literary positions must act only with the means that are his. These means are the written words.

Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues.

Politics are not unlike war. Sometimes it is necessary to shoot from the hip.

I do not support the third party movement anymore. I now advocate the abolishment of all political parties. We've allowed the parties to take over the government.

My informal writing style is a political choice, because I want feminism to be more accessible.

I used to practice clinical medicine. Now I practice political medicine, because it's the mother of all illnesses.

The discussion of derivatives in the political world has become a zero sum game.

They wouldn't be politicians if they knew what they were doing.

There's a lot of political things happening out there that I'd really have to get away from.

Cultural stupidity accounts for virtually every aspect of Sarah Palin, both as a person and a political icon. Which, come to think of it, may be a pretty good reason not to misunderstimate her.

For those of us who consider ourselves political moderates, life is a dispiriting slog, a sorry mix of rectitude and ineptitude.

With the coming of television, and the knowledge of how it could be used to seduce voters, the old political values disappeared. Something new, murky, undefined started to rise from the mists.

Politics must not be separated from religious values; religion must not be separated from political responsibility.

Politics are a labyrinth without a clue.

They worry one another like mastiffs, scrambling for rank and pay like apes for nuts.

Action based only on principles isnt always good even if it feels good.

Justices are not politicians. They don't run on a political platform, and senators should not ask them to do so.

The time is not far off when many nations in many parts of the world of many political shades and commitments will possess nuclear or even thermonuclear weapons.

I'm not tied to any particular political line.

Anyone who says he won't resign four times, will.

But now, as throughout history, financial capacity and political perspicacity are inversely correlated.

In other words, RBS had its origins in a failed speculation, a bail-out, and a financial crash so big it helped destroy Scotland's status as a separate nation.

...also took for granted that secret services were the only real measure of a nations political health, the only real expression of its subconscious.

I think a lot of bad things have happened in the name of the church and in the name of Christ. Therefore I shy away from church...

You have not converted a man, because you have silenced him.

I think that people have to have to have a sense of what ideas are one the progressive side, the Democratic side in order ultimately to be effective in the political world.

Human work must be done honourably and thoroughly, because we are now Men; whether we ever expect to be angels, or were ever slugs, being practically no matter.

I feel much more strongly about the abdication of responsibility by the media than by political advocates. They're representing a constituency.

Russian talk of political evil is as natural as eating.