Political Quotes

The fact of picking up an instrument and writing a song and expressing yourself publicly has a powerful political dimension.

To be a statesman, you must first get elected.

I can't vote again ever, so political party is not a relevant thing for me.

Language usage always has a political context.

The reason people hate America is because they don't like being treated like garbage by arrogant, pompous, hypocritical, self-righteous, duplicitous, imperialist political and bureaucratic hacks.

Any union that can't accept workers choosing their own representatives through universal franchise is finished.

I'm a very political person, and I make political choices in my movies.

Vladimir Putin is a human rights abuser, responsible for deaths in Ukraine, Georgia and Syria, not to mention curious murders of his political opponents and journalists.

Not only has the number of government employees multiplied in recent decades, but the rise of government unions further stacks the political odds against private citizens.

Dependency is the highest political good - at least for politicians. Since the 1930s, politicians have striven to leave no vote unbought.

It is absurd to expect governments to descend gradually, step-by-step into barbarism - as if there was a train schedule to political hell and people could get off at any stop along the way.

The people = government doctrine is equivalent to political infantilism -- an agreement to pretend that the citizen's wishes animate each restriction or exaction inflicted upon him.

It's hard to think that you're a political consultant - not many people are going to get a crack at a thing like this.

I have sort of a visceral aversion to the prominence of the either active duty, in the case of General McMaster, or retired general officers filling political, civilian positions.

Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it.

I don't get into heavy political numbers because I don't find them lyrical.

Often hair is the way we are differentiated in this culture. To me the decision to straighten your hair is deeply political.

We did not anticipate the political fallout from it. We definitely didn't need it and we paid it back the first day we were allowed to.

I think now Somalia is turning a corner and we can, with the new political development, build on momentum - really build a peaceful future.

But I think it's quite clear in my work that my orientation isn't political or doesn't come out of modern politics.

I'm highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don't feel in tune with British politics.

Chimpanzees can be quite political.

Hurry, conscious younger people! Get to power quickly so political decisions can be based on the greater good for all rather than the greater gain for few. Hurry, before it is too late!

As soon as you bring up money, I notice, conversation gets sociological, then political, then moral.

For some reason I get advertised when I travel as a political comedian, which I'm not. Sometimes I talk about it and sometimes I don't.

Sometimes the critics review me harshly for not being critical of government but it's not me who has said I was political.

In Poland, nobody is arrested or persecuted for political reasons.

I do write songs with a political dimension to them sometimes, but I'm always slightly appalled by it when I do.

Bond is the longest-running franchise ever and there's a reason for that: they are action movies but they are also touched by current events without being political or too serious.

Children should not be used as pawns in a political fight.

In a Republican district I was a Republican. In a Democratic district I was a Democrat. And in a doubtful district, I was Doubtful. But I was always for Erie.

Sixty years ago this week Hitler invaded Poland. This led to the creation of The History Channel.

President Obama said he is going to use the Gulf disaster to push a new energy bill through Congress. How about using the Gulf disaster to fix the Gulf disaster?

Congress voted for tougher laws on corporations. So now when a corporation buys a senator, they need a receipt.

President Bush spent the day calling names he couldn't pronounce in countries he never knew existed.

Yesterday in New York City, Donald Trump officially changed his political affiliation from Republican to Independent. And Donald's hair has switched from pelt to carpet sample.

Folk music had long been political but [Bob] Dylan's poetry took it to a new level.

I'm pretty opinionated sometimes although my political views change all the time, too. So I'm not very zealous.

People have an actual bias against there being some kind of popularity for political films, and when they get acknowledged, it helps keep the conversation going.

There is a difference between being a political force, or a political apparent force or a potential force, and between a real discourse or a real argument.

There are no small steps in great affairs.

Switzerland has no competition. It sits in the middle of Europe, it has the highest technological development, it's legally safe and the political circumstances are never going to change.

There are a certain number of extreme behaviours led by fundamentalists who are using their religion for political ends and use extremist techniques.

At that time [1954], as a result of political events, I was deeply preoccupied by my relations with the Communist Party.

What you eat is the most political thing you do every day

I am getting much more political as I get older. It's the duty of any writer, in particular, not to stand back from the world.

Organized religion is a very bad way of passing on spiritual values because it becomes so corrupted with political and repressive agendas which don't help anybody to develop their spirituality.

Everything's viewed with a political lens in Washington, and that's just the nature of the beast, and it is what it is.

Victory has 1,000 fathers; defeat has 1,000 kibitzers.

The Family is the oldest and arguably most influential religious political organization in Washington.