Political Quotes

There is no such thing as political science, but there are tenancies so strong that they might as well be called laws of nature.

The Cold War was really the great struggle of the 20th Century and it shaped American political life from top to bottom.

The failure of political leaders to help uplift the poor will be judged a moral failure.

I've learned to have absolutely no regrets about any jokes I've ever done. You can tune me out, you can click me off, it's OK. I am not going to bow to political correctness.

You get so tired of political correctness. I'm noted for speaking out all my career.

We who didn't inherit political power nor are made to acquire riches like nothing better than that which expands and solidifies the power of the spirit.

The issue that a political campaign would make a human life into - you know - a political football, is unsettling.

The golden rule has no place in a political campaign.

We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really, has come into its own.

It's a matter of fact that Senator Obama has spent more money on negative ads than any political campaign in history.

We saw images and ideas from white supremacists literally shared from political campaigns showing up in the Twitter feeds of major news organizations. We saw it in our political rallies as well.

I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement.

Filmmaking became a possible way for me to combine my interest in photography and in gathering stories, as well as my interest in journalism and political science and international relations.

The West has political prisoners.

All working, practical political systems, even those professing to originate in moral grandeur, are based upon and operate by contempt of human life and the individual fate.

I like to use my own language. Political movements are like living creatures - they develop. Each document expresses the times, the different stages and is part of the natural development.

The problem is this. The spread of markets outpaces the ability of societies and their political systems to adjust to them, let alone to guide the course they take

Political power without economic power is sterile.

At a time when political correctness is valued over honesty I would also like to say right on motherfuckers!

The time is fast coming when politicians will cease to fear the religion of humanity and humanitarians will find entrance into political life indispensable for full service.

Britain is obsessed with political correctness.

I think political correctness really does help us when it serves us but it doesn't help us when it silences us.

Political correctness sometimes does great work when it helps equalize the playing field when it comes to language, but it does a great disservice when it tries to silence a person of color.

Political correctness is a minefield

People who don't vote have no call on political leaders!

The Left/Right scale is a misleading way of comparing political systems. It doesn't measure anything.

Political parties exist to get bums on seats.

In political life, it is extremely difficult to remain loyal to a friendship when constellations of power or interests are in the way.

Everything in our political life tends to hide from us that there is anything wiser than our ordinary selves.

I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.

We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life.

It would be catastrophic if one day these fundamentalists Christians gain enough political power to enforce their literal understanding of Mosaic Law.

A lot of the political change that could happen is going to be super boring.

You must address the historical and political differences in race and ethnicity in this country before you hold tenaciously to insubstantial, and unsubtantiated, beliefs.

If you end internet neutrality and permit mergers of the big information technology corporations, that's a form of rent seeking. It's part of today's political revolution.

For long, history was mainly political history, and historical narrative was confined to an account of the most important crises in political life, or to an account of wars and great generals.

When I arrived at Harvard, I wanted to design a course in political theory that would have interested me, back when I was started out, in a way that the standard things didn't.

There are so many similarities between a startup venture and a political campaign - the rhythm, the tempo, the hours, the intensity.

I have no political ambitions whatsoever. My ambitions are all about what XL can become.

When Donald Trump does his talking, he - he doesn't tiptoe around the thousand new rules of political correctness.

My interest in political philosophy was rather casual until I met Hayek.

When spiritualism dawned, suddenly women who wanted to engage in the civic and religious and political culture were becoming transmediums.

Political life loves some volatility.

Our political systems clearly are not working.

We cannot proclaim this century the African Century and then ignore the AIDS pandemic, as some political leaders are apt to do. To claim this century the African Century is to declare war on AIDS.

America is fed up with political correctness, and it is fed up with government that doesn't work. It's fed up with weakness being interpreted as wisdom.

Hamas is a political party and political parties don't recognize other countries.

I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.

I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away.

I studied political science and international relations, so I never considered myself an artist.