Political Quotes

I am happy to do political fundraisers. I always hope that my friends will be, too. It's part of who you are and you shouldn't feel ashamed of what you believe in.

I hate all that woozy political and psychotherapeutic crap applied to books and art.

Only majorities can expand political rights in America's constitutional society.

I don't want to do 20 minutes on Donald Trump. I want to do 10 minutes and move on. I wouldn't even do that with a live show, because I don't want it to feel like "An Evening Of Political Comedy."

Once you get into the [Donald] Trump stuff, you get people going, "I didn't come here to have my political views bashed."

The five million people who watch cable news are the political nation, the people who really care.

It may be useful to remember that a peacetime political machine is built essentially on patronage.

Everybody in politics lies.

Elections are about choices. They're about distinguishing one from the other. There is a political element to that, and of course it has to do with policy, as well.

Washington has a mysterious power to turn perfectly reasonable, wholesome, well-meaning human beings into equivocating crooked gasbags.

Economic and political structures that have a far sweeping impact on the lives of billions is not outside the purview of the gospel's redemptive influence.

Political pundits are saying President George W. Bush has made gains in two key states: dazed and confused.

Neville [Chamberlain] has a retail mind in a wholesale business.

I'm entitled to my political opinions, and I get to vote because I'm an American.

I'm a little bit of a news political junkie, a little bit of a reader of history.

What's now urgently needed [to stop environmental disaster] is the international political commitment to take action to avoid dangerous climate change.

I'm not a great deep political thinker.

I will not ever run for political office, I can assure you of that.

Slate is not a political magazine but a lot of what it does is politics.

I don't think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today, that they did invent our political system.

A September 2015 poll found that, by a 3-1 margin, voters are more likely to support political candidates who favor raising the minimum wage.

I think the thing is there's a work for every space, you always have to respond to a context, whether it be a physical context, or a political one, or a cultural one, whatever.

Because countries often have differing political and economic systems, agreements are needed to protect those invested in trade.

I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early 70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire.

Even in independent music, people push towards radio. It is very political.

Only six percent of films are made by women. And so in that that paradigm, a woman making a film at all is a political statement. A woman speaking her truth creates a feminist film.

I don't think anything will change until Americans revolt and get it into their heads that they need to be informed voters instead of just listening to the paid political ads.

I love Mikhail Bulgakov. He is very original and takes the story to unexpected places. I didn't realise political writing could be so funny.

My political career goes back to the '60s and those were times of vigorous debates.

Ultimately, suffering is always political with all kinds of justifications - there are those who justify Israel's occupation of land as being a fulfillment of what God had promised.

Without forgiveness, there is no future. Forgiveness is not nebulous, impractical and idealistic. It's thoroughly realistic. It's real political in the long run.

I am not political as a person.

The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the president, it should be helping us to produce smarter students.

The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television.

Spin is overrated. It is strategy, not spin, that wins elections.

The most basic decision a modern politician must make is whether to be aggressive or conciliatory.

In fighting scandal, the key is not to overreact.

Every donation received is a potential negative ad. Vetting money is just as important as raising it.

The key to running a campaign on the cheap is to avoid spending money on anything other than projecting a message.

Leadership is a dynamic tension between where a politician thinks his country must go and where his voters want it to go.

It is from the center that leaders must lead.

There is no substitute for a clear vision and a decisive direction.

There is literally no such thing as an idea that cannot be expressed well and articulately to today's voters in thirty seconds.

The typical presidential staff resents the vice-president even more than they do the first lady.

The key to controlling your own political party, so that it does not eat you alive, is to realize that while Democratic and Republican leaders differ sharply, their voters do not.

The opposing party rarely causes so much angst as does one's own.

Today, a politician does not just need public support to win elections; he needs it to govern.

ALEC is one great organization, I think, for growing future political leaders.

NATO member states vary dramatically in their capability and in their political steadfastness.

I have joined the political arena so that the powerful can no longer beat up on people who cannot defend themselves.