Political Quotes

The country needs the political work of women to-day as much as it has ever needed woman in any other work at any other time.

Ours was not a political household, when I was growing up.

If you decide to become a political actor, then the things that you say and you do become subject of public scrutiny and comment.

Just because you have political beliefs or feminist beliefs, you don't have to like everybody, you don't have to like everything.

My rage and sense of alienation as to how women have been written, have allowed themselves to be written, in so many ways, has political roots.

Chris Rock does the political thing really well, but that never worked for me.

Political job is not a business job but it is a job of the people who have generous heart who want to help others with their views.

The Sangh Parivar, against which I had been waging a war, misled the people. My opponents used the Election Commission and the bureaucracy to win a political battle.

Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking.

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I am not a particularly political person, but, as a Tribeca resident, the commodification of September 11th is offensive to me.

Only a country that feels invulnerable can afford political turmoil as entertainment.

Everything done by the state is ultimately done by means of aggression, which is to say violence or the threat of violence against the innocent.

Among the most urgent political priorities of our age is the separation of economy and state.

That wall, embodied in the First Amendment, is perhaps America's most important contribution to political progress on this planet.

Every collectivist assumes a different source for the collective will, according to his own political, religious and national convictions.

It isn't the American white man who is a racist, but it's the American political, economic and social atmosphere that automatically nourishes a racist psychology in the white man.

I know very well that the political classes have spread fear among the electorate: Without the euro, the sun will cease shining, the rivers will stop flowing, we will enter an ice age.

Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

America cannot have an empire abroad and a Republic at home.

Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side

To charge Snowden with espionage is a severe form of political persecution.

There is no more great men; there is only great committees.

Today, I think, the state of philosophizing about democracy is very healthy. It bridges political science and philosophy, as it should.

We've clearly seen that Tea Party Republicans are willing to take our economy hostage just to score political points, but I'm not willing to do that.

I try to speak in a manner that allows people to tell me apart from my political adversaries. And I speak in a manner that the people can understand. For me, that isn't populism.

The insane have achieved political respectability while the sane act too good for it all. The irrational celebrate while the rational act bored and above-it-all.

I have found that I'm just political just by being who I am.

The mass media are class media.

If the test of patriotism comes only by reflexively falling into lockstep behind the leader whenever the flag is waved, then what we have is a formula for dictatorship, not democracy.

The media have been tireless in their efforts to suppress the truth about the gangster state.

The trick is to steal big.

No man is a hero to his own valet.

When migraines briefly became a campaign issue for me, it appeared that political foes were maybe playing the gender card.

I have nothing against Bosniaks/Islam, but it is the desire to direct political processes that is completely unacceptable.

If you really want to engage in policy activity, don't make that your vocation. Make it your avocation. Get a job. Get a secure base of income. Otherwise, you're going to get corrupted and destroyed.

If I had to choose one which best characterized the condition of being a political leader in Athens, the word would be "tension".

We don't know what may yet happen to us, what military and political defeats we may yet have to face.

What to do about climate change is political, it's social, and it's moral, which is one of the reasons the scientific community reached out to the Pope, to ask for his involvement in this issue.

This year has begun hopefully for right thinkers. After all these centuries of feudal barbarism and political slavery, it is surprising to see how the word of 'liberty' sets minds on fire.

[Marx's theories] gave me a political and intellectual justification for what I believed in a way that nothing else did.

The problem isn’t too little money in political campaigns, but not enough.

The long experiment with professional politicians and professional government is over, and it failed.

That's one of the good things about being from the political centre, you're willing to work with both side of politics.

I do believe that America's deepest political sickness is that it is a self-righteous nation.

Everything you do on Earth is political.

Democracy is the current industry standard political system, but unfortunately it is ill-suited for a libertarian state.

For all their talk about the virtues of democracy, many incumbent politicians really don't like it when voters have a voice-not if that voice is effective.

...the century's most radical vice... the notion that human beings can be shoveled around like concrete.

Obviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond - had to try to make sense of was what was happening on a day-to-day political level.