Political Quotes

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher.

We're at unique point in history where the things that we are building are going to significantly impact our social, political, economical, and personal lives.

There is not, nor should there be, an irreconcilable contrast between the individual and the collective, between the interests of an individual person and the interests of the collective.

If your regime is not strong enough to handle a joke, then you don't have a regime.

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

This crusade, this war on terrorism is going to take a while.

Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.

A landscape image cuts across all political and national boundaries, it transcends the constraints of language and culture.

I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.

I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.

My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort of an oxymoron.

The enemy isn't conservatism. The enemy isn't liberalism. The enemy is bulls**t.

The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.

It is now easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.

Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.

This lie of political correctness is bringing this country down. You just want to break through it all.

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.

It's not the Jews that killed Christ. It was a political situation, and it was the Romans who killed Jesus. They put Jesus on the cross, not the Jews

I'm still a political revolutionary. The fire never went out of me, but perceptions and realizations change.

But particularly when the media profess to strive toward objectivity, gatekeepers play a crucial role in helping people navigate the news to make educated political decisions.

Political Economy or Economics is a study of mankind in the ordinary business of life.

I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.

Via money Europe could become political in five years

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Political division, based on color, is entirely artificial; and when it disappears, so will the domination of one color group by another.

In a case like Iraq the UN has again shown what important role it plays as the guarantor for protecting international peace and stability in the global political structure.

If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.

Sooner I'd try to change history than turn political, than try convincing others to write letters or to vote or to march or to do something they didn't already feel like doing.

Well, you know, in any political campaign, you're gonna have people on one side that are gonna slip a reporter something because they think it'll hurt the guy on the other side.

Liberals want the government to be your Mommy. Conservatives want government to be your Daddy. Libertarians want it to treat you like an adult.

There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions.

Well, I wouldn't say that this experience had any influence on my decision to do this film about Andy, because Andy was apolitical. Andy was never political.

John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university.

No Republican presidential candidate is a viable option for pro-choice voters of any political philosophy - Democrat, Republican or otherwise.

There is no question that Taiwan is a state in any political science definition of a state.

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.

National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness.

In his life, a man can change wives, political parties or religions but he cannot change his favourite soccer team.

The war on privilege will never end. Its next grat campaign will be against the special privileges of the underprivileged.

I was a Political Science major.

The Bible is the only force known to history that has freed enitre nations from corruption while simultaneously giving them political freedom.

Anybody who has political ambition has an Achilles heel.

The FDA calls certain substances "controlled." But there are no "controlled substances," there are only controlled citizens.

A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

As long as the government can arbitrarily decide which substances are legal and which are illegal, then those who remain behind bars for illegal substances are political prisoners

Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.

Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his truths.