Political Quotes

I see myself as more of a policy maker than a political leader.

Unless you reduce the long-term spending burden, you cannot cut taxes in any lasting way, but can only shift the burden of taxes from the present to the future.

I'm very wary of large groups of people getting together and trying to believe the same thing. It never seems to end well, whether it's political or religious or whatever.

If anything, I would like to see the climate change happen, so the science could be proved right, regardless of the consequences. This isn’t being political, it is being selfish.

Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you.

In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world.

If you have to hire paid actors to impersonate people who politically support you, people don't actually natively politically support you. You are not a political animal that exists in nature.

It's the usual Socialist fiscal math of 1 + 1 = You're paying, so who cares.

Political debate is political debate and that's fine. That's healthy.

With the shock of war the state comes into its own again.

'Media' is the plural for 'mediocre'.

Bush and bin Laden are really on the same side: the side of faith and violence against the side of reason and discussion. Both have implacable faith that they are right and the other is evil.

What I always try to do is make the political personal.

Once a bureau is created, its staff becomes a tenacious political interest group, well placed to defend its budget and to make a case for expanding its activities.

We simply cannot afford any further delay in providing the IMF with the resources it requires to help contain the threat of further financial and political instability around the world.

When a political organization loses contact with its origin, it declines and risks implosion.

Alexander was not the first Greek to be honoured as a god for political favour.

I am an artist and a political being as well.

Someone must stand up to those who say, "Here's the key, there's the Treasury, just take as many of those hard-earned tax dollars as you want."

We are not dealing with a scientific problem. We are dealing with a political issue.

I am doubtful that there will be any sort of real coherence of Muslim societies into a single political system run by an elected or non-elected group of leaders.

Each of us needs to eliminate our anger, fear and greed. The roots of social conflicts and political tensions are in personal anger, fear and greed.

Political statements are usually more direct, and it works with the upbeat music as well, for some reason, the directness of your statements.

Anger or revolt that does not get into the muscles remains a figment of the imagination.

What real job - what political world - would want Spencer Pratt, with the stigma I’ve attached to my name?

The witches, the wise women, and the healers were also always the counselors. It's a whole other tradition of knowledge and learning that has been suppressed because it had political implications.

The weak economy, widening income inequality, gridlock in Congress and a presidential election: Those were perhaps the dominant economic and political themes of 2012.

I hope more women will join us in our journey towards a more balanced political system.

My work is drawn to the political but avoids an agenda. There is no inherent critique or support.

I realize political credibility is important in this world,but it's more important to be faithful to God.

Doing nothing in the public policy world allows much more to be done in the real world.

My passion strengthens daily to quit political turmoil, and retire into the bosom of my family, the only scene of sincere and purehappiness.

If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.

I worry that we don't currently have a democracy in the United States. Instead we have what [political philosopher] Sheldon Wolin has recently labeled a sort of inverted totalitarianism.

Remedying the deficiencies of seminary curricula is a difficult question because of all kinds of vested political interests long at work in the building of any curriculum.

Politics is mostly pill-taking.

You have to have a sense of humor if you follow politics. Otherwise, the sheer fraudulence of it all will get you down.

The inefficiency of political control of an economy has been demonstrated more often, in more places, and under more varied conditions, than almost anything outside the realm of pure science.

Our economic problems worry me much less than our political solutions, which have a far worse track record.

It appears that President Obama is making great progress on climate change, he is changing the political climate in the country back to Republican.

What makes this mentality dangerous is that when the team is held together by careerism and mindless partisanship, individual members are punished for thinking for themselves.

Muslim immigrants like himself encounter prejudice here [in U.S.] but also find political and religious freedom.

The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.

I don't write political plays in the sense that I'm writing essays that are kind of disguised as plays. I would really defy anyone to watch any of my plays and say 'Well, here's the point.'

I'm usually put off by performers when they get political

The only pertinent political question in relation to an identity [or its photograph] is not Is it really coherent? but What does it actually achieve?

We have reached the time when it is morally right to "shoot the bastards", but it is not yet practical to do so.

Trust not too much to appearances

We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement.

For Russia, there is not and there may not be another political option but democracy. However, Russian democracy is... not at all the realization of standards imposed on us from outside.