Political Quotes

Poor, successful, fallible Republican party! If it could only have kept the purity of the patriot impulse of which it was born!

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.

War is only caused through the political intercourse of governments and nations - war is nothing but a continuation of political intercourse with an admixture of other means.

Evolution is a large political controversy as to what should be taught in the schools. But there is no scientific controversy that we evolved when we talk about evidence from fossils and DNA.

It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.

It [the Euro] is a decisive step towards ever closer political and institutional union in Europe. Above all, it is political.

I'm a baseball player, I'm not a political activist.

Citizens, it is time to take our country back from the political class, from the media, from the liberal elite.

As president, the first thing I will do is secure the border. It will take money, manpower, and technology - but most of all, it will take political will.

The people are fed up with the political class.

Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time.

I'm guessing that musicals didn't make sense anymore because of the changes in the political environment that began in the late Sixties, an era of self-awareness and social revolutions.

Our political organization, based as it is on an eighteenth-century separation of powers and on a nineteenth-century nationalist state, is generally recognized to be semiobselete.

The backwardness of our religious and social developments is undoubtedly holding back the development of the intellectual and political levels.

One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends.

I couldn't write a political song. There's just opinion; it's all arbitrary anyway. It's all subjective.

In the current climate, things that are true, brave human stories become political.

His [Gough Whitlam's] effect on the geo-cultural-political map of Australia is so vast that wherever you stick the pin in you get a wealth of Gough's legacy.

In fact it was always the Communist problem which was responsible for the opposition to [Albert] Camus. It was always and overall a political thing, a kind of misunderstanding.

'Contract' succeeded 'status' as the basic organising principle in modern political vs. ancient society.

I felt like there wasn't a political discourse. I felt like there was just one set of values, and any one set of values was wrong; that there should at least be room for conversation.

We should realize that the average family in America spends five minutes a week on politics.

All kinds of celebrities, political ones as well, are increasingly being targeted. In this country, with all the countless guns.

I'm not political. I just want America to do well, I want the world to do well. I want everyone to stop fighting.

I'm not a political person. When I start to get into it, it just upsets me. I feel so powerless when it comes to politics. So I've just decided to be non-political and very, very pro-soldier.

Many people are trying to remove religion from public life. Under the banner of pluralism, cultural and political leaders are seeking to push all talk about God out of the public arena.

In speaking of natural rights, therefore, it is essential to remember that these alleged rights have no political force whatsoever, unless recognized and enforced by the state.

It not infrequently happens that persons without any other special qualification than the drama of their lives are precipitated into important political positions.

[R]ights do not belong to men simply as men, but because of the superior qualities, physical, intellectual, moral or political, which are characteristic of certain individuals or races.

When the President signs this act, the invisible government by the money power will be legalized.

Experience to a politician is like experience to a prostitute - not much to recommend them.

A time-tested political tactic guaranteed to raise a president's popularity rating by at least 30 points. It is especially useful during election years and economic downturns.

He laid into me with the same gusto as a right-wing political pundit on the O'Reilly Factor defending President's Bush right to vacation six days out of the week.

I grew up in a very political household. My mum used to shout at the television. At Mrs. Thatcher.

I used to do some philanthropic work, but with the political platform, I can contribute in a bigger way.

I didn't leave Africa, I left Nigeria, and for political reasons. But ... I've never, never left Africa, and I certainly never left what it means to be Ibo. That is something you carry with you.

Here's what I know about political campaigns: no matter what you map out at the beginning, it's always different at the end.

In terms of political contributions, the free speech rights of corporations I dont think deserve the same protections as the free speech rights of real living, breathing, voting humans.

I think I was a militant smoker, and I felt hemmed in by a wall of political correctness and I think I purposely and militantly put the smoking scenes in the movies.

Ron Teigen Sr. and Donald Trump Sr. both have matching political qualifications: zero.

The thing is, I hate political comedy. I personally loathe it.

A dominant race did not lie, because it had the whip.

That’s one of the things that I like about him - because he’s been consistent since he changed his mind.

There isn't much political coloration in my economic writing; it's not surprising that few people know my political views. They really aren't very important.

It's just as political, what you do in the bedroom is just as political as what you do in public.

I don't think Hillary Clinton will get any sort of political honeymoon like George W Bush or Barack Obama enjoyed.

Veep is the best and most realistic political TV show out there.

Mike Pence is the hardest one to guess in 2020 as a leader, because I don't know if he is seen as the heir to the Donald Trump political movement or ig being the heir is a good thing.

The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas.

What is especially irritating about the whole abortion debate is the way the subject has been used as a political football by those on both the right and the left of the political aisle.