Political Quotes

It is only the novice in political economy who thinks it is the duty of government to make its citizens happy - government has no such office.

The prophecy of a world moving toward political unity is the light which guides all that is best, most vigorous, most truly alive in the work of our time.

The greater concerns in China and Taiwan are on the political side, not on the economic side.

George Bush was not elected by a majority of the voters in the United States. He was appointed by God.

The Constitution favors no racial group - no political or social group.

Revolution in America begins in books and music, then waits for political operatives to 'implement changes after the fact.'

You're going to be accused of every high crime and low misdemeanor there is.

Dressing is a matter of taste, and I've met very few Republicans with good taste.

Let's face it: The Jewish community is the most active political community in American society.

There is an element of delusional obsession in the French political elite's preoccupation with the notion that France is still a global power.

In politics, as in fishing, you don't have to be a genius. You just have to be smarter than the fish.

Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason.

We believe that to govern perfectly it is necessary to avoid governing too much.

In the political context fair means somebody that will vote for the unions or for the business. It can't mean that in the judicial context or we're in real trouble.

The failure of the White House and Congress to seriously address the nation's fiscal situation is certain to broaden the belief among many voters that the U.S. political system is broken.

The French Revolution will be found to have had great influence on the strength of parties, and on the subsequent political transactions of the United States.

Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don't always reflect or act on that knowledge.

When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, it's merely a routine, everyday occurrence in Russia, and hardly anyone has any sympathy.

Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.

We don't know something called elections in Libya. We are a muslim country. We don't know something called colonialism and political parties.

Few things reveal more about political leaders and their systems than the manner of their downfall.

I now find my political philosophy more in line with Democrats than Republicans.

I don't think you can work on feelings in politics, apart from anything else, political change can come very unexpectedly, sometimes overnight when you least expect it.

The framers, in their wisdom, designed the [political] system so that power's pretty disbursed.

Feminism has exceeded its proper mission of seeking political equality for women and has ended by rejecting contingency, that is, human limitation by nature or fate.

It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.

The rise of Hamas is a product of the failures of political will in the international community, of the absence of the peace process, of the increase in violence and ideology.

It's much more fun to run a political campaign than it is to be the candidate.

I will not be a Democrat or a Republican. They are the problem, not the solution. We need to abolish political parties in this country.

Democracy is not a form of government. It is a political philosophy that can be embodied in various systems of government.

Institutions of knowledge, of foresight and care, such as medicine, help to support the political power. It's also obvious, even to the point of scandal, in certain cases related to psychiatry.

For me, and maybe for many religious kids of the '60s, the church lost relevance the more it became a surrogate in the movement for social and political change.

In my political philosophy I think that there sometimes is room for violence.

Until the American majority is willing to live within its means, it can hardly force its political leaders to do so.

It is an essential feature of the just state that the wealthy be kept away from political power and that the politically powerful be kept away from wealth.

Many of the political jokes that circulated in the Third Reich were directed at Goering. He collected them [all] in a large leather notebook and delighted in re-telling most of them to his friends.

I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.

I think we've seen at least the beginnings of rather significant social and economic change in the Muslim world, which I think will in due course lead to more political change.

This country maintains that there is no political prisoners, that everybody is criminals, but it's just not true.

I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language.

Political leaders have to withstand headwinds.

Political development should start at the grassroots.

Even [Ernst] Hemingway, perhaps the most intentionally non-political of American writers, became passionately partisan during the Spanish Civil War.

I have no faith in political arithmetic.

The man who never tells an unpalatable truth 'at the wrong time' (the right time has yet to be discovered) is the man whose success in life is fairly well assured.

The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in; and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.

Political will is a renewable resource, and everyone can have it in abundance if they so choose.

Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.

All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It's only a question of degree.

The true destiny of America is religious, not political: it is spiritual, not physical.