Political Quotes

The War on Terror has been and continues to be, above all, a war on the most basic liberties and political safeguards that we're all taught are what distinguishes the US and keeps it free.

When the private sector fails, the solution is more government. When the government fails, the solution is more government.

Over the years, our political system has degenerated to the extent that it's difficult for anyone to make any headway, yet keep his hands clean.

I should have written more. I should have written more during the period when I just liked so much doing the political work in the streets.

Never quit politicking and never underestimate your opponent.

Looking for an honest politician is like looking for an ethical burglar.

power can be thought of as the never-ending, self-feeding motor of all political action that corresponds to the legendary unending accumulation of money that begets money.

What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to seek to justify.

I hate liberality - nine times out of ten it is cowardice, and the tenth time lack of principle.

Economics is primarily useful, both to the student and to the political leader, as a prophylactic against popular fallacies.

Politics /n/: from 'poly ticks', short for 'many small bloodsucking insects'.

The personal is not just political. It is also economic.

The difference between a politician and a statesman is that a politician thinks about the next election while the statesman think about the next generation

I never wanted to be one of those actors with a political agenda.

Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context.

This Humanist whom no beliefs constrained Grew so broad-minded he was scatter-brained.

We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes.

That worst evil of long dictatorships: the loss of all political experience.

The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless.

Political risk is hard to manage because so much comes down to the personal choices of policymakers, whether prime ministers or heads of central banks.

My parents pressed upon me that "In this world, you are a black woman," so I was political about my hair and would not straighten it.

A treasure does not always contribute to the political security of its possessors. It rather invites attack, and very seldom is faithfully applied to the purpose for which it was destined.

Political economy has only become a science since it has been confined to the results of inductive investigation.

To bring about a genuine political realignment, Republicans must kill the Government Goose that Lays the Golden Eggs - the very Goose they have fought so hard and long to possess.

In another life, before taking the veil of journalistic purity, I practiced the black arts of a political operative, including 'debate prep.

Where the states are dead set on suppressing political opposition, it's very hard to overcome that.

We're all God. I'm not a god or the God, but we're all God and we're all potentially divine - and potentially evil.

All the political parties alike have their origins in past ideas and not in new ideas and none more conspicuously so than the Marxists .

I'm realizing this more and more that it's one thing to get involved with your own political beliefs and stand behind you believe in personally.

The union of Church and State is not to make the Church political, but the State religious.

The politicians should not tell the people to shut up.

Buying wine is a political act.

I grew up in the sort of cultural milieu that always regarded conversations about the political discourse as tremendously low-brow.

Being politically active is "more about doing things, not just standing for some platform or being involved in some political party."

The smartest people in Washington are the political reporters. They write about their inferiors.

I thought it was remarkable in July [2016] when he pointedly declined to endorse Ted Cruz at the Republican convention, because I thought that was not in his political best interest.

If you look at the history of the FBI, it has become effectively America's political police.

If tolerance and kindness and acceptance and love are political, then I guess I am political.

Parliamentarianism means putting political prostitution in barracks.

Is it the responsibility of the colored artist or the ethnic artist to create works that are designed to exist in opposition to a certain political structure?

Too often our Washington reflex is to discover a problem and then throw money at it, hoping it will somehow go away.

The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers.

The Arab is trying to be pleased with death and murder and mayhem and disease and poverty and political unrest.

I enjoy working with images of maps, flags, and different cultures around the world. I've always liked geography and geopolitics and it's fun to be able to play with the world political order.

My Worst Political Move of the 2015 Year. John Boehner inviting Benjamin Netanyahu to address the joint session of Congress.

A feat - of access and of passionate and appropriately unsettling political commentary.

Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.

In Russia, less than one percent of trials end with an acquittal. With trials that were initiated for political reasons those chances are zero.

Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane.

I think that all my books are political, I think that I have a political body of work. I am essentially a political woman, but above all I am a poet. I am a poetess.