Political Quotes

As a matter of fact, I didn't make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years.

It's very hard to have lived through the Sixties and not be political.

I came to political consciousness with John F. Kennedy's magnificent 1961 Inaugural Address. It seemed the start of something fresh and exciting, and it was.

In point of fact, 'Simpson-Bowles' has become a symbol, or SimBowl, rather than an actual plan, political shorthand for the process of long-term deficit reduction.

The American military will never lose the war in Iraqif lost, it will be lost by a lack of political will.

I strongly believe that every American should always be rooting for our president to do well, no matter which political party that he or she might belong to.

Politics, in a sense, has always been a con game.

Any allegation of runaway capitalism has to be tempered by the observation that today we have the largest public sectors and the highest taxes the world has ever known.

In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.

But the truth of the matter is that there is there is an opportunity for them to participate in the economic and political future of the country and certainly in the security life of the country.

Oh, the transition concerns me because as we move towards an important political event, it's clear to me that the terrorists and insurgents will move as hard as they can to disrupt this process.

It's clear to me now that we've got to reach out to the Arab Sunni community in particular in an effort to cause some moderate political activity to take place so they join the future of Iraq.

Have you ever found in history, one single example of a nation, thoroughly corrupted, that was afterwards restored to virtue? And without virtue there can be no political liberty.

Where annual elections end, there slavery begins ... Humility, patience, and moderation, without which every man in power becomes a ravenous beast of prey.

All great changes are irksome to the human mind, especially those which are attended with great dangers and uncertain effects.

I am for making of terms annual, and for sending an entire new set every year.

If the way to do good to my country were to render myself popular, I could easily do it. But extravagant popularity is not the road to public advantage.

Oh! the wisdom, the foresight and the hindsight and the rightsight and the leftsight, the northsight and the southsight, and the eastsight and the westsight that appeared in that august assembly.

We can't test these absolute limits on humans. We can't blast them with sound. However, we can do that to animals because they don't have the same political base that we do.

Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.

When you raise the price of employment, guess what happens? You get less of it. Why do we want to make it harder for small employers to hire people?

I always believe when your political opponents are committing suicide, there's no reason to murder them.

I think it's critical that we return national security issues to the center of the overall political debate in America.

You don't need to spend tens of millions of dollars on political consultants to tell you what you think when you already know what you think.

America deserves a nominee who reveres the law, not one whose service on the bench is conditioned on political promises.

I want judges on the Supreme Court who will not use that position to impose their personal policy preferences or political agenda on the American people.

It never hurts to be involved in any political or activist organization. I can never see how participation would be a bad thing. The key is being true to what you participate with and who.

Biophobia is as much a part of a politician's basic equipment as a sharp suit.

The struggle for democracy has to be maintained on as many fronts as culture has aspects: political, economic, international, educational, scientific and artistic, religious.

What's the use, there never was a woman living who could understand political ideas.

This ain't a war... It's a goddam whorehouse.

In 1950, American families sent 1 of 50 of their hard earned dollars to Washington: Today it is 1 in 4.

Will Rogers once said it is not the original investment in a Congressman that counts; it is the upkeep.

Where else, in a non-totalitarian country, but in the political profession is the individual expected to sacrifice all-including his own career-for the national good?

Democrats proposing success in Iraq by political solution.

Terrorist organizations with specific political agendas may be encouraged and emboldened by Yasser Arafat's transformation from outlaw to statesman.

Leadership is more important than people's political career at times.

Few things are as immutable as the addiction of political groups to the ideas by whichthey have once won office.

The experience of being disastrously wrong is salutary, no economist should be denied it, and not many are.

The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt.

I see ethical considerations as having a certain priority in our interactions - passing judgment on our political and legal processes.

It was a charming fantasy of romantics that the spies would stop spying, that political conflict would end and politicians would tell the truth. Unfortunately that has not been the case.

On one hand we go like hell for every terror cell we can find, we penetrate it, we destroy it. On the other hand, there is a much bigger need for a political solution.

We're not disinterested in politics. It's just that politicians are disinteresting.

I was trying to say something about Christianity, the idea that you have to be tortured to attain heaven. I didn't believe that.

I've always been politically minded, you know, and against the status quo.

I've never voted. I've never voted yet although I could have voted for the last ten years.

In my case I've never not been political, though religion tended to overshadow it in my acid days.

I always read the papers, the political bits.

I'm many things, most of 'em bad. But a man of political principles? No.