Political Quotes

What's interesting is the populace movement of fundamentalism is starting to mirror that approach that elite fundamentalism has long had of trying to have influence across the political spectrum.

Congress will always couple one bad idea with another, the better to 'offset' them.

There's practical political considerations obviously, but there's also these broader themes, which is like, I don't want to be the manager of the Middle East.

[Louis] Brandeis had a very distinctive vision of political economy that he persuaded Woodrow Wilson to adopt in the 1912 election and that he largely enacted from the bench.

Is political discourse still just shouting opinions about subjective, hot-button issues based on poor understanding and outright ignorance about which agreements can never be reached?

It's always interesting to see what judges do when their legal philosophy conflicts with their political views.

Some musicians play blues, others classical jazz or bluegrass. I like to play political roles because I can merge my political interests with my creative interests.

Expressing political opinion can be a powerful way to establish a character's voice when writing fiction.

For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights.

I like that Ben & Jerry's is willing to speak out about social and political issues that aren't always safe - but are the right thing to do.

Unrestricted laissez faire capitalism allocates resources in a most efficient way to satisfy human wants without regard to the rationality or morality of those desires.

Many things happened in the sixties, but the period is no more significant, better, or more 'political' than today. It's time to turn the page.

You can justify, from a political standpoint, any type of violence you want to use.

If you run, you might lose. If you don't run, you're guaranteed to lose.

The crisis is not an opportunity to change the character of Louisiana's political order. We must not use the crisis to turn Louisiana into a red state -- this is a rainbow state.

George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.

No matter what the characters you play, you have to find the differences in them, especially when you are doing a political movie.

Yes, and you should question your government.

I always go with the dictionary definition of feminism, which is just social, political and economic equality for women.

A man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.

In my own work I am invested in art as a way to break through impasses, whether those impasses are personal, social, or political.

Silence is not an effective political strategy, and what we do if we silence the public interest, which is so hard to hear anyway, is that we silence ourselves and then we do not have a democracy.

We must challenge to fight at every level, including Congress and to make that challenge political and to organize as a political party is how we get traction.

There was really interesting work going on, for example, in the Mississippi bayou, where there were some really exemplary health centers that also became centers with kind of political organizing.

To be honest, I want readers to be wrung out. As a novelist, I don't have a political agenda or specific philosophy; I'm trying to create a gut-wrenching, intimate, memorable experience.

Turning to politicians is the worst way to solve a problem.

You've got the Democratic Party that now depends on more government spending and actual building the dependence on government in order to increase their political party.

Well, I've been in the political arena all of my life, and 10 years of that as a candidate and elected official, and that's about enough.

You can define everything as being political and analyze it politically.

I think America is going to have to think through whether it wants to uplift the political dialogue or advance an approach that divides and, frankly, can lead to violence.

Today the brightest light in the Scottish political firmament has gone out.

It’s always interesting to me to tell stories that come from difficult political climates.

It is possible to construct small realities that contain political or philosophical responses, not necessarily just practical or economical responses.

I am pro-Israeli, not because of political expediency, but because I believe Israel is the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy.

Although military, economic and political strength certainly favors the more powerful side, the matter of simple justice is a counterbalancing factor.

Those who start war often know that because of their high political position their own lives will not be in danger. on the Diane Rehm Show.

I began to expand my personal service in the church, and to search more diligently for a closer relationship with God among my different business, professional and political interests.

It's politically impossible for any member of Congress to make a public statement condemning or criticizing the policies of Israel. It would be political suicidal for them to do so.

I have a very real political awareness that at least on a transient basis the more drastic action taken by the president, the more popular it is.

A new poll found that almost 70 percent of voters say that whoever our next president is, they must have political experience. You know, because it would be rude to say 'anyone but Donald Trump.'

The political spectrum is not linear but circular. In my experience the extreme left always ends up rubbing shoulders with the extreme right. They are philosophically blood brothers.

We have the best congressmen that money can buy.

I don't have a political bone in my body.

All of my work in some way or another speaks to political issues according to the upbringing that I had, which was deeply rooted in principles.

I've learned that the best political reporters never make predictions!

It's not that Michelle Obama is trying to conceal her true feelings, it's that she does not want to be a political liability to her husband.

Stem cell research has become such a polarizing issue in America... and I wanted to bring it down to the personal level, instead of the political.

It's a tough trick to be able to create an intelligent movie that has socio-political commentary, and also has the emotional and moving stuff, at the same time.

I don't have all these advisers, political advisers. I don't even talk to them because I'm not a slave to a campaign manager, and Trump isn't either.

I didn't make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years. And I just focused almost exclusively on my initiatives for national crime legislation, foreign policy issues.