Political Quotes

A lot of people who claim they're political comedians are just comedians who have opinions. But they stop being funny the minute they give their opinions.

English experience indicates that when the two great political parties agree about something it is generally wrong.

Ingratitude is surely the chief of the intellectual sins of man. He takes his political benefits for granted, just as he takes the skies and the seasons for granted.

Muslim citizens should never be classified according to their creed, origin, ancestry or culture. After all, I don't define my political or social position by reference to the Christian faith.

I could give a flying crap about the political process. We're an entertainment company.

There was a shooting at a political camp, which sounds a little like, you know, the Hitler Youth or whatever. I mean, who does a camp for kids that's all about politics? Disturbing.

[Tyler Perry] has the luxury of not doing the political stuff, which is really where I want to be as a company.

Personally, I'm tired of hearing the whole have-you-no-decency routine from people who have made quite clear that they possess none themselves.

Political Wire is one of the absolute must-read sites in the blogosphere.

No other form of violence is legitimate. It is never acceptable to use violence to solve a problem. Whether personal or political.

The political is personal.

As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.

Being president of a major public university is the most political nonpolitical office around.

Rome ... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor while the Praetorian Guard ruled.

The price of freedom—of individuality—is attention to politics, careful planning, careful organization; philosophy is no more a barrier against political disaster than it is against plague.

I didn't have a lot of overtly political songs. I think it was more the actions of the group that were threatening to the authorities, and also our political philosophies apart from the music.

The problem with the immigration debate, it's probably is the most poisoned and political debate of any issue, because you have this huge voting bloc that everybody says is yours

Politicians cannot create jobs or wealth. Such is axiomatic to straight thinkers.

It is a condition which confronts us-not a theory.

I don't think Republicans will be fooled into taking this necessary spending and using it to oppose pro-growth tax cuts, using this tragedy and those deaths for his own political desires.

Working on a studio picture, I can't help but be aware of all the political stuff that's going on. I have to work to be able to survive, in a sense.

The union of church and state put the church under a political control... The church was thoroughly subordinated to the state.

I am against slavery simply because I dislike slaves.

A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest man a century.

He sailed through American history like a steel ship loaded with monoliths of granite.

He slept more than any other president, whether by day or by night. Nero fiddled, but Coolidge only snored.

Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up.

Palestinians were religious in many ways, but they did not subscribe to political Islam, historically.

the fateful equating of power with violence, of the political with government, and of government with a necessary evil has begun.

Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx.

I've begun so late, really only in recent years, to truly love the world... Out of gratitude, I want to call my book on political theories Amor Mundi .

Envy is more irreconcilable than hate. It is the most corroding of all political vices and also a great power in our land. The friends of freedom are content to be envied, but envy not.

I take my profession as an economist seriously and feel a commitment to the truth. This is incompatible with having to toe the political party line.

Not a moment passes these days without fresh rushes of academic lemmings off the cliffs they proclaim the political responsibilities of the critic, but eventually all this moralizing will subside.

If we read the Western Canon in order to form our social, political, or personal moral values, I firmly believe we will become monsters of selfishness and exploitation.

Revolt by all means, but only on one issue at a time. To do more would be to confuse the whips.

A successful current affairs television show seems to be more and more a cross between a music hall turn and a scene in a torture chamber.

We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions.

The instruction furnished is not good enough for the youth of such a country ... There is not even any systematic instruction given on political morals: an enormous deficiency in a republic.

The environment has become a political, polarizing issue.

Democracy is not simply a political system; it is a moral movement and it springs from adventurous faith in human possibilities.

This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

It sure is hell to be president.

I am dead against trying to keep religious conservatives out of the political debate. The tactic of exclusion is self-defeating.

There is more and more data indicating that there is a biological basis to your political views.

Leonid Brezhnev did not understand the enormous political importance of the decision to produce and afterwards deploy the SS-20s.

Life means progress, and progress means suffering.

I came to Mozambique in 1986, when I first became involved with Teatro Avenida - a theatre company that stages plays concerned with political and social issues.

An Iranian moderate is one who has run out of ammunition.

The nuclear weapons were not useful for the achievement of political objectives.