Political Quotes

Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.

I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.

People didn't vote left or right in the election. They voted for putting an end to all the primitive political history.

What we heard today was not fiscal leadership from our Commander-in-Chief, what we heard today was a political broadside from our Campaigner-in-Chief.

There are certain skills that business people have that are - that are, in fact, helpful in - when it comes to being in political leadership.

I've never worried about payback. People are hungry for leadership that's not afraid of political consequence.

We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded.

It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.

Obama wants to be thought of as the president who freed us from foreign oil. But if he doesn't show some political courage, he may well be remembered as the president who cooked the planet.

Global warming is a political issue. It is as much a political issue to the left as abortion is. It's as big a political issue as health care is.

First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.

Conservatives believe in smaller government and in the power of the electorate. So I think that we're less likely to try to use a dramatic forum to warp people's political views.

The years of the economic depression have been years of political reaction, and that is why the economic crisis has generated a world peace crisis.

I've thought hard about my psychological connections and I think I've managed to separate out the psychological from the legal, moral, and political.

The Civic Culture (and The Civic Culture Revisited) remains the best study of comparative political culture in our time.

It is not the qualified voters, but the qualified voters who choose to vote, that constitute political power.

Putin has had many positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia.

Money, media, and political power are very closely connected.

We now live in a country with a thousand political prisoners, a country where each week there are new trials, where people are put in jail because they liked something on the Internet.

We need a new political science for a new world.

The Labor Party is a body that does not seek political life, and does not fight for its life.

For the sake of democracy, vigorous, civilized debate must replace the law of silence that political correctness has imposed.

America is a country ready to be taken - in fact, longing to be taken - by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.

Both political parties have a richly vested interest in corporate corruption.

Big money is ruining the political system.

What I have experienced is nothing compared to what political prisoners in prisons suffer.

There should be no political prisoners in a democratic country.

Burmese political culture lacks an understanding of negotiated compromise. We have to build up that kind of culture.

And let me say this as a politician I can promise you this, political leaders will never take risks if the people do not push them to take some risks. You must create the change that you want to see.

If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.

Right now, the United States of America is the patient. And the patient is in critical condition and will not be cured by political correctness and will not be cured by timidity.

We know the legislation that passed the House. It was the worst piece of legislation frankly against working class people that I can remember in my political life in the Congress.

I have always defined political correctness as an elevation of sensitivity over truth.

I'm glad to know that we do have political leaders that believe in God, and that has been true from the days of George Washington.

I didn't understand how you could be an actor if you didn't also study philosophy and study political science, astronomy. And also just go out and live life and have experiences.

Hurricane Katrina was caused by political correctness. I said it!

It is an axiom of political life that you never raise expectations, whether in a political or military campaign, because your defeats are then magnified and your victories discounted.

For a member to say, 'I'm a lame duck' violates political science 101.

The anti-gun-violence movement was essentially asleep from 1994 to 2012, and during that time, the gun lobby built up enormous political power.

My political life has been informed by the view that if there was any truth to religion there wouldn't really be any need for politics.

I think the desire to reject elites, to retreat within more comfortable geographic and personal borders and to lash out at political correctness is not a phenomenon unique to Britain or the US.

[On political correctness:] Any intended message mattered less than the received message, and every received message could be interpreted in whatever way the receiver wanted.

When you lose the gayborhoods, you lose the political power that comes when you're concentrated in precincts, and you also lose the cultural vitality.

I think political correctness is a moving line.

When people access the use of force for the threat of violence they have, by definition, a new political power. An unwanted political power.

A lot of it is backlash against all this political correctness that's going on.

One thing I'm with Trump on is the political correctness in this country. It's draining.

If a liberal political philosophy stands for anything, and I am no longer sure it does, then it must mean that we are committed to the leveling of the playing field for everyone.

I don't think it would be a good idea for scientists to have more political power. Scientists as a group are more inclined to try to derive an ought from an is, than the population at large.

Political correctness is one of the engines of nannyism. Allowing and even encouraging offensive ideas is vital for the intellectually health of a free society.