Political Quotes

Courts in America seem to be so political, and it would be so great for our justice system if they would be able to read a statement and do what's right.

There is nothing the political establishment will not do - no lie that they won't tell, to hold their prestige and power at your expense. And that's what's been happening.

The corrupt political establishment is a machine, it has no soul.

The fundamental problem with the immigration system in our country is that it serves the needs of wealthy donors, political activists and powerful, powerful politicians. It's all you can do.

And we have a Fed that's doing political things. This Janet Yellen of the Fed. The Fed is doing political - by keeping the interest rates at this level.

We have people that are political hacks negotiating our trade deals.

The fundamental problem with the immigration system in America is that it serves the needs of wealthy donors, political activists and powerful, powerful politicians.

We're running a war by politicians and we're running a war by political correctness as per that question [with ISIS].

I've never seen more dishonest media than frankly, the political media. I thought the financial media was much better, much more honest.

The press is dishonest, but the political press is especially dishonest.

We have the greatest negotiators in the world, we have the greatest business people in the world, we don't use them. We use political hacks. So we have a trade deficit of almost $800 billion.

It's the spring of 2012, that the [Barak] Obama administration would be embracing the argument that the Affordable Care Act was a tax, and that was going to, itself, be a political albatross.

Shirley Chisholm is another one [political hero]. She was a dynamic speaker, and the first black woman to run for President.

Barbara Jordan is one [of the political heroes]. Her 1976 speech in New York inspired me to get into politics.

Trying to gin up political violence for its electoral utility is - I think inarguably what we're seeing here. And I know that the Donald Trump campaign will not say that is what they're doing.

When I became political and Communist, it was because they were the only people I had ever met who fought the color bar in their lives.

Legislators consistently put the political imperative before the national interest.

I'm very interested in politics, and I feel TV is a more political medium than film.

Just saw a t-shirt at the gym said, body by torture. That's a lot less ironic if you're a political prisoner in the Middle East.

I just didn't understand the American political system, and I felt really stupid about that.

Isn't it amazing that the Germans call their city halls 'rat houses'? That's what we should call our city halls!

It's bizarre to me that you can have political commentators, sports commentators, weather commentators, but with medicine, people go, "You can't do that."

Media scrutiny is a great trademark of the American political arena.

I'm more patriotic than I am political - I appreciate politics but I'm not quite too sure if that's a road I'm willing to go down.

I have no use for those- regardless of their political party- who hold some foolish dream of spinning the clock back to days when unorganized labor was a huddled, almost helpless mass.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

Mo Yan is a writer who, defiantly in the face of those who wish his work were less cartoonish and more straightforward in its political meanings, continues to sing his own peculiar and alluring song.

I don't go to different countries to criticise their political system and tell them what they should be doing - what do I know?

The American political machinery is awesome to behold in its scale and expense and waste and madness. It's the greatest circus on Earth I suppose.

Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

In the Trump language, words change their meaning day by day depending on his own political needs.

Margaret Thatcher was the first political leader in any major country to warn of the dangers of climate change

Where two motives, neither of them perfectly justifiable, may be assigned, the worst has the chance of being preferred.

In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.

Political freedom is, or ought to be, the best guaranty for the safety and continuance of spiritual, mental, and civil freedom. It is the combination of numbers to secure the liberty to each one.

Immigration reforms are always controversial. Our Congress was created to muster political will to answer such challenges. Today we didn't, but tomorrow we will. I yield the floor.

There is a technical solution to every political problem...

Nobody's going to vote for terrorism. So our governments don't have that sort of political pressure to act in a responsible manner when it comes to stewardship of our rights.

I don't think political reform is likely to succeed. [Senators Tom] Udall and [Ron] Wyden, on the intelligence committee, have been sounding the alarm, but they are a minority.

When it comes to political engagement, I'm not a politician - I'm an engineer.

That's whatever news topic, whatever political process any country is going through - whenever they are in the news, that's when they exist. If you don't see them they don't exist.

A politician weakly and amiably in the right, is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong.

...real prosperity can only come when everybody prospers.

The morality of a [political] party must grow out of the conscience and the participation of the voters.

I'm not a political person, and their ambitions are not mine. They want power. I don't want power.

The framers of the Constitution realized that . . . there needed to be some guardian of the sober second thought, and so they created the Senate to fulfill that high and vitally important duty.

I wanted to be a political science professor and go to school in Boston. I never wanted to be a big, famous movie star and TV star. It kind of found me.

Speculation is a fool's game, but I've seen many political projections that look like the Taliban could hold most of the country, and possibly Kabul, within perhaps a short time.

I don't care what the political establishment says, Republican, Democrat - I'm a problem solver.

Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people; it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order.