Political Quotes

In college I studied '60s and '70s radicalism, student activism, forms of political violence, groups like the Weathermen, the Black Panthers, the Symbionese Liberation Army, the New Left.

Public opinion is the last refuge of a politician without any opinion.

The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!

White working-class voters or working-class voters have felt abandoned, have felt, in many senses, disparaged by the political leadership of America.

Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals.

It's long past time we started focusing on the solutions that actually keep women healthy, instead of using basic aspects of women's health as a tool of cultural, moral, and political control.

It [Socialism] was a kind of political hockey played by big, gaunt, dyspeptic girls in pants.

Free competition exists inside shelters of law, custom, insurance, political approval, and carefully protected status.

The media I've had a lot to do with is lazy. We fed them and they ate it every day.

Twelve states in the Great Plains have a wind energy potential greater then the electric use of our entire nation.

To complain about how the media are dominated by liberals, Limbaugh has an hour a day on network television, an hour on cable, and a radio show syndicated by over 600 stations.

One mechanism of repression is the grand jury.

The Islamic ideology is a political ideology based on a religion.

If your book is set in the plantation days of the slave-owning South and you write a little romance between two slave owners without acknowledging the system they live, that's a political gesture.

A political satirist's job is to draw blood. I'm not so much interested in politics as I am in overthrowing the government.

Better to be the architect of something you can endorse than the placard waving protagonist standing in the rain.

The Tea Party has imparted political energy to common-sense American constitutionalism.

Politicians don't like empowered individuals.

There is no reason for the government to limit political speech.

Teach kids not to fight. Can they change taxes? I'd get rid of all the congestion charges, because they've not stopped traffic. They're a waste of time, not that I'm getting all political.

The world wills itself to be deceived, so let it be deceived.

If you delve into and a part of the political wars, the - as I would call it, the arguing ad infinitum. It never ends, and very few people I've noticed ever change their mind.

What shall we do about the Abortion Bill?" A: "Pay it!

So long as he was personally present, [Alcibiades] had the perfect mastery of his political adversaries; calumny only succeeded in his absence.

The Church's mission is not political in nature. Her task is to open the world to the religious sense by proclaiming Christ.

During his long political career, my father was always active in communicating the Christian gospel from the evangelical perspective.

See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.

We must apply a judicial, not a political, standard to this record. Asking a judicial nominee whose side you will be on in future cases is a political standard.

A judicial standard means that a judicious decision can be entirely correct, even when the result does not line up with our preferred political positions or cater to certain political interests.

Secrecy destroys accountability.

Fear is cruel and mean. The political reigns of terror have been reigns of madness and malignity,--a total perversion of opinion;society is upside down, and its best men are thought too bad to live.

A lot of people think of political activism as some grim duty, and I think we do have an obligation to be citizens - to be informed and engaged.

Confronted with economic problems, politicians always blame the private sector first ... [even] blaming the problem on the solution.

Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.

In highly charged political matters, one person's ambiguity may be another person's truth.

Among the many factors that make a return to halcyon days of the first decades of the postwar era virtually impossible is the decline of clearly defined political leadership.

I don't see dramatic television because my wife is a political junkie, and we have 12 sets going night and day so she doesn't miss a word walking from room to room.

It is a tremendous sacrifice to run for political office in America today.

Only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions.

Professional politicians like to talk about the value of experience in government. Nuts! The only experience you gain in politics is how to be political.

The United Sates has much to offer the third world war.

Political scientists almost everywhere have promoted the expansion of government power. They have functioned as the clergy of oppression.

I'm falling back on what some of the standard protocols for politics are after victory. We in America do not prosecute defeated political enemies.

I like power and I like to use it.

Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform.

Writing about a war will always be political writing, no matter what amount of hermetical hide-and-seek or aesthetical operations are involved.

Democrats, overpaid celebrities, the mainstream media that are so lazy, they are willing to endanger your lives, gamble with your life to try and score cheap political points!

I think politicians know how to misrepresent data in order to support a political agenda. Politicians and the people that work for them - I should say - are expert at that.

Peace is nothing more than the regulation of the psycho-political economy of awe and reverential fear, of using the threat of terror in order to bind citizens to the circuit of their subjection.

Amber London is a political rapper, a preaching rapper who speaks true facts and not just nonsense.