Political Quotes

Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out; political passions, never.

Some people would say having a feminist perspective is political, but I don't think it is. I think it's just having a female perspective.

In some ways, the challenge of staying political is to stay a dreamer at the same time.

No political movement can avoid the reality of desire in its midst. Every office building is full of the illicit affairs, the unwanted pregnancies, the crises that happen in human lives.

DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment.

PICKANINNY, n. The young of the "Procyanthropos", or "Americanus dominans". It is small, black and charged with political fatalities.

NOMINATE, v. To designate for the heaviest political assessment. To put forward a suitable person to incur the mudgobbling and deadcatting of the opposition.

I am not entering politics to be another Knesset member. If I enter the political arena I want to be prime minister. Period.

When you're in political times, you want to reflect those political times, and sometimes going back to our past is the best way to look at our present.

People assume thoughts and processes about you that may have nothing to do with you whatsoever, but they make political assumptions and assertions about who you are based on your choice of partner.

I don't represent a group, a trend or a political party, but rather everyone.

Like Hillary Clinton before her, Mrs. Obama has always been a working woman. She is a lawyer turned hospital administrator turned political right hand. It is a unique resume.

The average political poem - especially the kind that wears this label all too proudly - is both dull and full of brow-beating triteness.

Most of us have been subjected to terrible political poetry at least once or twice in our lifetimes, and so we tend to shy away from it.

I'm of the opinion that poetry is always political, and cannot help but be so, regardless of the poet's intent, given that refusing to deal in politics is in itself a political act.

Being born, especially being born a person of color, is a political act in itself.

Lesson from Pataki's success is: Use the political moment.

My political enemies I can freely forgive; but as for who abused me when I was serving my country in the field, and those who attacked me for serving my country -- Doctor, that is a different case.

The political controversy surrounding this Boston's Big Dig could have the effect of throwing cold water on any plans for farsighted infrastructure development around the country.

A lot of people are very political when they are young, and then they outgrow it.

Unions should not be lapdogs to a political party, they should be watchdogs for their members interests.

When I think about political races, and certain consultants, the word that comes to mind is dirty. Dirty, dirty, DIRTY!

It's true that it's within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it's not going to solve the problems

With political means and always trying to work for political settlements and this is what I'm going to continue to work on with all my heart.

I'm in the perfect position. It's a sports position and a political position where I can help better the lives of athletes around the world.

Whenever you come across a screw-up this big, you know the government is behind it.

You can't say, "I'm too busy writing to be political." You are one person.

Mitt doesn't like to talk about how he has helped others because he sees it as a privilege, not a political talking point.

I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators "the haute couture of language."

I'm drawn to the magical efficacies of language as a political act.

We would like to see the virtual elimination of the transmission of [HIV] from mother to child by 2015. ... We believe it can be achieved with political will.

If I had died it would have been even better for you political bratchnies, would it not, pretending and treacherous droogs as you are.' But all that came out was er er er.

I'm not a sociologist, I'm not a political scientist, but I'm a fairly intuitive person.

It is the necessary nature of a political party in this country to avoid, as long as it can be avoided, the consideration of any question which involves a great change.

When I do a political movie, I do a political movie.

It's a rarity when someone takes a political risk in Washington today in the public interest.

I'm a bit of a political geek anyway, so you tend to write how you think the rhythms of an administration will go.

I am more or less happy when being praised, not very comfortable when being abused, but I have moments of uneasiness when being explained.

One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of the world.

The internet has a way of mainstreaming everything. Any artist, any musician, any sexual kink, any political view point, it's all there.

You can't help people being right for the wrong reasons...This fear of finding oneself in bad company is not an expression of political purity; it is an expression of a lack of self-confidence.

Election campaigns seem to siphon away political anger and even basic political intelligence into this great vaudeville, after which we all end up in exactly the same place.

Once you've seen certain things, you can't un-see them, and seeing nothing is as political an act as seeing something.

There are personal reasons, psychological reasons, but there could also be political reasons for becoming a terrorist.

I never thought that I could reach such a high political position. But I have always been ready to serve my country.

Democracy, like liberty, justice and other social and political rights, is not "given", it is earned through courage, resolution and sacrifice.

The judiciary must be strengthened and released from political interference.

I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons.

Muslim leaders should ask themselves what exactly their relationship is to a political movement that encourages young men to kill and maim on religious grounds.

Collectivism, as an intellectual power and a moral ideal, is dead. But freedom and individualism, and their political expression, capitalism, have not yet been discovered.