Political Quotes

Our middle class majority, deeply in personal debt, elects political leaders who increase our benefits. Then we vote them out because we dislike the soaring national debt.

The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life.

I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

The shortcomings of America's political leaders do not stop at our borders.

One way ... in which a political philosophy can be ideological is by presenting a relatively marginal issue as if it were central and essential.

Creationists are possibly gaining more political power. In the U.S., you are constantly hearing stories of school boards harassing teachers and trying to get textbooks banned.

The U.S. needs to do more than change presidents. It needs to change its political culture.

The reality is that when three or four networks are at the table with three or four political parties, someone is going to be the victim.

There was never in my mind a desire to give in on the subject of freeing the political prisoners.

You can use a biography to examine political power, but only if you pick the right guy.

The nature of our two main political parties has changed in the United States.

We're led to believe everybody opposes it and disagrees with political correctness, but yet everybody's scared to death of it. So who is it? Well, it's the power structure wherever you happen to be.

Islam, the religion of peace and any terrorism that happens, is not really Islamic or Islamic inspired. This is called a willful blindness. It's also political correctness.

We've got communism. We have Bushism. We have Clintonism. But there isn't a Trumpism. Bullet-point for me what the Trump political philosophy is and you can't do it, because he's not a political guy.

Part of me wanted to get a graduate degree in political science. Had I done that, I suppose I would have become a college professor.

Certainly there are various trans-Islamic political movements, which try to appeal to Muslims in all societies.

Stand up, speak out, and be bold. Screw political correctness. Never let them tell you to sit down and shut up.

I majored in political science, and my concentration was U.S. involvement in Latin America in the 20th century.

I'm sure that those - well, I know for a fact that the prisoners, the political prisoners in the federal system, is asking [Barack Obama] for clemency or for some kind of release.

To limit money is to limit political power.

I don't believe you should interfere with any classic for reasons of religious or political correctness.

People getting their fundamental interests wrong is what American political life is all about.

My relationship with Barack Obama isn't based on my political philosophy or his.

Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow.

There's a huge wave of anti-establishment feeling. There's an enormous amount of anger. And it's collapsing governments and political movements across the world right now.

Other top-level politicians do not express their global warming doubts because a whip of political correctness strangles their voice.

Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.

It's going to be like herding stray cats, and the political leaders who can do it will be remembered as the same kind of geniuses who pulled off the American Revolution.

I don't think you want political parties that are entirely driven by some extremely doctrinal ideology.

[Political movements] both favor alcohol and are against pot.

There's political content in almost every song we've ever written on some level. It colors everything.

It's embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List.

Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?

The current political tension is very serious. We have not yet ruled out a boycott of the election.

The political horizon looks dark and lowering; but the people, under Providence, will set all right.

Our political problem now is, "Can we as a nation continue together permanently - forever - half slave and half free?"

Politics, as a trade, finds most and leaves nearly all dishonest.

Directors are like generals, political dictators, aggressive people...And everyone in the film is always grateful if you can tell them what to do.

The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill... its purpose is to reach a political goal.

I think people have a strong desire to push me and others into some sort of political box that they can wrap their minds around.

Acting is a business and a political act and a craft, but I also feel like it's a service - specifically, for a military audience.

I think church and state should remain entirely separate at all costs, and that the decision of religious marriage should be of each faith to debate and decide free of political influence.

I have no great faith in political arithmetic, and I mean not to warrant the exactness of either of these computations.

Should the political process not work, there is always the other approach.

Bashar Assad has said many things. We will see in the near term whether he is serious about a political process.

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.

In war the first casualty is the truth.

An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.

Today, the general masses in this society are in this political-social condition that really encourages people to become rich and become a star and be unique.

Our lives are bound by physical limits, familial ties, political conditions, and geographical restrictions. Individual freedom takes us beyond them all.