Political Quotes

Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.

As long as the government can arbitrarily decide which substances are legal and which are illegal, then those who remain behind bars for illegal substances are political prisoners

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Sustainability is a political choice, not a technical one. It's not a question of whether we can be sustainable, but whether we choose to be

All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.

A world state which which embraces the entire globe and all of humanity cannot exist. The political world is a pluriverse, not a universe.

I like the free-speech stuff, the political-correctness stuff.

Because the state can no longer protect us from crime, it wants to take away from us the means of protecting ourselves. This is the logic of gun control.

Members of Congress should be compelled to wear uniforms like NASCAR drivers, so we could identify their corporate sponsors.

All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with different holidays.

America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.

To rid the world of Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki and Moammar Qaddafi within six months: if Obama were a Republican, he'd be on Mount Rushmore by now.

I do have reasons for what I do. I am a very political person, and I really think if you put these clothes on, you will look like a force to be reckoned with.

If a man . . . would shake and not be shaken, grip and not be gripped, taking care always to squeeze the hand of his adversary as hard as it squeezed him, then he suffered no inconvenience from it.

...without equality there can be no democracy.

We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.

There is one good thing about Marx: he was not a Keynesian.

There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all.

One could judge the degree of civilization of a country by the social and political position of its women

America has become the most unequal society among advanced countries, and rich people are now free to spend as much money on political campaigns as they wish.

The first step in saving our liberty is to realize how much we have already lost, how we lost it, and how we will continue to lose it unless fundamental political changes occur.

Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics.

100 political parties put together can never defeat the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, come 2015 presidential election.

A movie isn't a political movement, a party or even an article. It's just a film. At best it can add its voice to public outrage.

We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human, though monsters of abstractions police and threaten us.

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

Men are so simple of mind, and so much dominated by their immediate needs, that a deceitful man will always find plenty who are ready to be deceived.

Every election is determined by the people who show up.

One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change.

This is President Obama’s number one political agenda item because he knows we will never again have a Republican president, ever, if amnesty goes into effect.

A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

The executive branch of this government never has, nor will suffer, while I preside, any improper conduct of its officers to escape with impunity.

The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.

The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.

It's time for democrats to grow a backbone and stand up for what we believe.

Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.

Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law.

Economic freedom has no security without political freedom, and political freedom can find its security only in economic freedom.

In this era of political correctness, some people seem unaware that being squeamish about words can mean being blind to realities.

There are two kinds of fascists: fascists and anti-fascists.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

It's time for somebody to lead all of America's niggers . . all the people who feel left out of the political process.

Giving a politician access to your wallet is like giving a dog access to your refrigerator.

The American mass media have achieved what American political might could not: World domination.

Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.

There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.

The trouble with radicals is that they only read radical literature, and the trouble with conservatives is that they don't read anything

I like democracy. I like to be able to throw out my political leaders when they get things wrong, and we don't get to do that with Brussels.

Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.