Political Quotes

Politics has always been in my music. Anybody who doesn't understand how political "Copperhead Road" is isn't listening very well.

If people are innately saddled with certain sins and flaws, like selfishness, prejudice, sort-sightedness, and self-deception, then political reform would seem to be a waste of time.

One may gain political and social independence, but if one is a slave to his passions and desires, one cannot feel the pure joy of real freedom

I think the women in the political positions will push very, very hard to see that there are loans and banks for women in Rwanda.

I'm not particularly political. I'm not particularly denominational. I'm not worried about any of that.

My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art.

That mysterious independent variable of political calculation, Public Opinion.

It has been said, and perhaps with truth, that the conclusions of Political Economy partake more of the certainty of the stricter sciences than those of most of the other branches of human knowledge.

Politics and self-interest have been so uniformly connected, that the world, from being so often deceived, has a right to be suspicious of public characters.

There is existing in man, a mass of sense lying in a dormant state. The construction of government ought to be such as to bring forward, by a quiet and regular operation, all that extent of capacity.

The political left has been weak on protecting society from criminals for more than two centuries.

We know - or should know - what lies at the end of the road of racial polarization. A 'race card' is not something to play, because race is a very dangerous political plaything.

...experience should warn us that tough and unpopular decisions are only made under intense political pressure produced by urgent necessity.

In the political world, the only position I have is voter. I'm not a spokesman for anything.

It seems to me everything Shakespeare did was political.

Most of the really good literature I've read in my life was political, meaning it was important - about something going on in the history of the world - or contemporary.

You get these insurgent movements of populism, left and right. An insurgent movement of populism took my political party over in the UK for example.

The fear of a work becoming dated is one of the most effective tools for keeping people from writing political work.

Yes. My mother was and still is a Folk Singer. She was very involved in the political movements for Unions and Civil rights. She sang with Pete Seeger among others. My father was an Actor.

Political activities in Russia should be as transparent as possible. Financing political activities from abroad is something the state should keep an eye on.

This issue is not economic but political. I hope that all market participants interested in maintaining stable and reasonable world energy prices will finally make the right decision.

The National Debt is a very Good Thing and it would be dangerous to pay it off for fear of Political Economy.

A political animal can be defined as a body that will go on circulating a petition even with its heart cut out.

Legislators aren't known for being rocket scientists.

To me, political office should be like jury duty. You should just get a notice in the mail one day and say, 'Aw, sh - , I'm secretary of state next month.

Happens I am very political. I have deep political instincts.

I had never supported a political figure - and I went out and supported Obama.

Senators are a never-ending source of amusement, amazement, and discouragement.

As long as the wrong people hold power, how can the right political climate even arise?

Without a unified political climate of opinion, there is little or no political profit in doing the right thing.

The great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.

Decide on some imperfect Somebody and you will win, because the truest truism in politics is: You can't beat Somebody with Nobody.

They [the Labour Party] are not fit to manage a whelk stall.

I want to use my music to deliver a political message and sometimes to denounce, but I don't want to be a politician.

Steadiness of faith, was, in the long run, as illuminating and essential as sophistication of thought.

I am worried about our tendency to over invest in things and under invest in people.

They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.

What man is really anti-progressive? For he is only anti-certain-people's-visions-for-the-future.

It is not so much freedom of speech but the right to truth that great men protect.

The triune God exercises total government over all things, and He requires us as His image-bearers to exercise government in Christ in our own spheres in terms of His law.

For an entire wing of the G.O.P., a dysfunctional government, whose only visible activity is mismanaging crises, is not an embarrassment but the vindication of a worldview.

Capitalists' wet dreams is to be involved in charity.

Let the revolution begin.

You can't condemn a whole group of people because of the actions of a few.

I turned to books for comfort. (Former First Lady, Laura Bush)

Zionist willingness to compromise met by Palestinian rejection and Jew hatred.

The master who fears the choices his people will make enough to take those choices away isn't worth serving.

Civilized man longs for the illusion of barbarism. Either his culture fulfills this need by adopting its outer trappings, or he will be seduced by his first contact with a culture that does.

The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas.

Americans deserve an attorney general that will be honest with them, they deserve an attorney general who will uphold the basic standards of political independence and accountability.