Political Quotes

[Vladimir] Putin is an enemy of political dissent. The U.S. celebrates political dissent and the right for people to argue free from violence about places where our ideas are in conflict.

It is therefore wish'd that all commerce were as free between all the nations of the world as it is between the several counties of England.

To the haranguers of the populace among the ancients, succeed among the moderns your writers of political pamphlets and news-papers, and your coffee-house talkers.

The prime minister of Israel is welcome to speak in the United States, obviously. But we don't want to see this turned into some great political football

Comey really spent an enormous amount of energy in the period in which both he and Trump were in office trying to protect the FBI from political interference from the White House.

Politics is a way of ruling in divided societies without undue violence...politics is not just a necessary evil; it is a realistic good.

I detest war; it ruins conversation

The international community will not accept such threats to the political process.

If you mention any ideological thing about shooting Last Tango in Paris, I was thinking I was doing a political film.

The case to be made is that we have got to get people involved - continue to get people involved in the political process at every level.

Most political leaders acquire their position by causing large numbers of people to believe that these leaders are actuated by altruistic desires

Almost all education has a political motive.

Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events.

Talk radio doesn't need to be political.

That's what [Abraham] Lincoln said. "The white man will always be above the black man. I don't want them to run for office, or have political rights, or vote. I want them to go back to Africa."

There were no political ideas. It was an apolitical time. It was the '50s and in the privilege of the suburbs.

By themselves, they are not enough; we also need to engage in political action.

I think that so far the political and economic power of the fossil fuel industry has trumped all else.

Here is one of the first rules of politics: it's not enough that I do well; I must also destroy my enemy.

The writers are pretty political and they want to get as big an audience as they can - they want the popular vote.

A statesman is any politician it's considered safe to name a school after.

I think if you're going to make political art, you have to engage at some level. You can't just write about politics, you have to try and be politics as well.

All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations.

I think that if I would talk on a political subject, if I talk about it, it would divide the audience on that issue. That's not my issue.

But I'm not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when something becomes a political movement. What I'm interested in is emotions.

Terrorism is the intentional use of, or threat to use violence against civilians or against civilian targets, in order to attain political aims.

We're trying to get good pictures. Don't worry very much about what I say.

Think I'll win. Could be big.

I value public service and I'm relatively good at organizing political causes.

Any suggestion that I'm writing about political operatives because I'm interested in political operatives misses the entire point.

I come from a place of sincerity. I write about what I see and feel. I write about what I want, I don't have a political agenda. Politics may enter into a song but it always comes from the heart.

The shuffle only demonstrated people's fatuous belief in a political cure for a human condition.

do i have political views? you bet! i think the best way to express them is in your work, and then get the hell off the stage

We decided that the environment was an integral part of our policies and the political thrust of our government. We gave it the priority and we sustained it with the money required to make it happen.

Music is one of those things that brings great joy to people, singing is a sort of unifier of people, no matter what political place or original place you come from.

I never start with a political point of view. I believe that your politics are emotionally and psychologically determined by your early experiences.

I think you can't demonize somebody that's on the other side of the political spectrum, or you can't generalize about them.

I heard a political message in rock music. A liberation message. A message of freedom. I heard it in Elvis' voice.

Political people don't solve stuff - not really. Political people are like guys in pop music.

Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to stay at the top of the list forever. I don't have many illusions about this, but I'm not cynical about it.

I am proud to be in the Senate. I have always been proud to be a part of our political system. It is a remarkable privilege to participate in this system of ours.

I came into American politics and into this political system proud of politics and the way we make decisions.

The onset of one religion can be resisted only by another.

History, in spite of the occasional protest of historians, will always be used in a general way as a collection of political and moral precedents.

I was taught as a young person that the far political right and the far political left aren't located on a spectrum but on a circle, where they inevitably meet in their extremity.

I think that instead of feminism being a political thing, it should be an act of creativity. It's more of a rock n' roll thing.

If a state, or nation, has laws it will not enforce for political reasons, it mocks both the law and politics, to say nothing of the cultural order.

There is only one form of political strategy in which I have any confidence, and that is to try to do the right thing and sometimes be able to succeed.

I know that Instagram belongs to Facebook, so I cannot really stand on a political pedestal and say, "I'm against Facebook!" But I haven't wanted to be on Facebook from the beginning.

As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that, a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz's spiritual and political odyssey paradigmatic for our time.