Political Quotes

Few people know anything of the English history but what they learn from Shakespear; for our story is rather a tissue of personal adventures and catastrophes than a series of political events.

Bernie Sanders brought millions of people into the political process.

Lauryn Hill is quite political and is very bold and isn't afraid of wearing her heart on her sleeve, and same with Bjork, except she is a little bit more kind of fragile.

George Bush's political, intellectual and other shortcomings cannot be restricted to one sentence.

I felt that what is personal is political.

Corruption of politics has nothing to do with the morals, or the laxity of morals, of various political personalities. Its cause is altogether a material one.

The Democratic party today is not so much a political party as a milling herd, and the herd is easily stampeded.

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.

So was it a political mistake for Obama to put so many eggs in the health-care-reform basket? Well, a negative decision from the Supreme Court will certainly make it appear so.

Everything you do is political, even if it's abstract. You're making a political statement even if it's unwittingly.

The Liberal Party abandoned the principles of reform and social liberalism and has become, instead, just another piece of political machinery in the service of corporatism.

Dodd continued to hope that the murders would so outrage the German public that the regime would fall, but as the days passed he saw no evidence of any such outpouring of anger.

Although I am a strong political conservative, I now believe that the costs of our fruitless struggle against illegal drugs are not worth the modest benefits likely to be achieved.

I work on a political subject quite often, and the paintings, for me, are not finished until they're printed.

Right now, we live in bad times in this country, and the fact that there are filmmakers addressing political and social issues is to me a good thing.

There is a clear intent to keep Christian thinking out of the mainstream of the media and the nation's political life.

Those who have a lot of money in Greece invest in housing abroad. It's all immoral. The Greek crisis is structural, but also political.

The global triumph of American technology has been predicated on the implicit separation between the business interests of Silicon Valley and the political interests of Washington.

To fully absorb the lessons of the Internet, urge the Internet-centrists, we need to reshape our political and social institutions in its image.

All fundamental political problems are problems of relationships; therefore, all fundamental solutions have to involve fundamental changes in relationships.

Deliberation is not a particular type of speech, but a political act of collective decision-making in consideration of consequences.

The convention is the voice, the bone and the sinews of a political party-and sometimes it even nominates an Abraham Lincoln.

Do not elicit your child's political opinions. He doesn't know any more than you do.

A life-long mission has been to counter the notion that political engagement is the spinach we must eat in order to have the dessert of freedom.

The personal is the political. That's an old tagline.

I desire that on no occasion ... shall demonstrations of a political or religious character be made before my remains.

I think what we journalists too often do is we assume the status quo is unchangeable. I think all sorts of issues of political reform, electoral reform need more discussion than they get.

We have retained the forms and phrases of a republic, but in reality we are living under an oligarchy, not of courtesan, but of bureaucrats.

The political maturity of a country is measured by what citizens willingly do for themselves and one another.

The truth is that a lot of plays aren't political at all. In American theater history, political theater has tended to crop up when there's a crisis, a national crisis.

It [concentration of wealth and power] has been a menace to . . . American democracy.

I propose to create a Civilian Conservation Corps to be used in simple work...More important, however, than the material gains will be the moral and spiritual value of such work.

It is time to extend planning to a wider field, in this instance comprehending in one great project many states directly concerned with the basin of one of our greatest rivers.

No man should have a political office because he wants a job.

An extraordinarily precocious mind, a political free thinker, who towered above his political contemporaries in Germany.

Religion's crucial role in the lives of many people... is rejected out of hand by the political community, especially the press.

It is important to expose yourself to ideas you don't agree with from time to time. Attend a political rally of a party you do not like.

Prediction is a very difficult business, particularly about the future

The average 20-year-old serving us in Iraq knows more about their country's national security than the average 20-year political veteran serving in the Congress today.

Obamacare represents a shocking display of political arrogance. It's about time Washington started listening to Americans' common sense voices.

Enlightenment is not about being political. It is not a social club. Ashrams often turn into that, I know. Societies of enlightenment often just become cliques.

Many sections are taken up with political discussions and how the way of the ruler, the merchant, the householder, and the army interact with the Tao.

Get some distance on yourself and undertand the multilevel structure that's operating. There's a power structure within you. You're a very political creature.

They have done this through sexual repression, economic repression, political repression, social repression, ideological repression and spiritual repression.

Christ was crucified because he threatened the tonal of the time. He was killed because he threatened the established order of the political regime.

Gradually, they learned that politics is fundamentally a great business, a struggling and a haggling for advantages, over whose lap collects the most rewards cast by the legislation-machine.

Almost two thousand years, and no new god!

A nation usually renews its youth on a political sick-bed, and there finds again the spirit which it had gradually lost in seeking and maintaining power.

I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with your life. I just go out there and tell some stories, and people can relate.

The Capitol looks beautiful and I am honored to be at work tonight.