Political Quotes

Gold is a relic from a time when government's were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now.

I would vote for a Muslim if he or she was the best candidate able to lead the country and defend our political values.

It seems to me that President Carter has earned his place as if not the worst president in history, the worst president of the 20th Century.

Don't let anyone tell you otherwise - not our political opponents, and certainly not a disingenuous filmmaker, who would have us believe.

The political spirit is the great force in throwing the love of truth and accurate reasoning into a secondary place.

I've always been interested in socially political, or overtly political, comedy.

I would like to offer a candidate to be added to the venerable list of English collective nouns: a scum of politicians.

Congress is a Mafia running a protection racket.. .

Obama's coalition would have consigned him to the political margins as little as 12 years ago, but the nation's demographic changes are moving far more quickly than most Republicans anticipated.

Obama's victory in November 2008 was a historic political accomplishment.

Unquestionably, American political rhetoric can be repugnant, and the Right can certainly be as guilty as the Left.

There is nothing so deep and nothing so shallow which political enmity will not turn to account.

A political conception just applies to the basic structure of a society, its institutions, constitutional essentials, matters of basic justice and property, and so on.

As in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it.

... no human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances of justice.

Production does not consist in things laboriously made, but in things serviceably consumable; and the question for the nation is not how much labour it employs, but how much life it produces.

Not only does the liberal paradigm not even come close to agreeing with the social and economic reality on the ground today, worse, it has largely congealed into a political religion. . .

Political pandering comes in all shapes and sizes, but every four years the presidential primary bring us in contact with its purest form - praising ethanol subsidies amid the corn fields of Iowa.

But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality.

That realm is never long in quiet, where the ruler is a soldier.

I hope that I would put whatever my political beliefs aside, and realize that my country's asked me to to something, and do it.

Actual evil probably requires much more creativity, passion, and political ideology than anyone at or near the top of Microsoft seems to possess.

The American system of political spending is so unregulated that it might make Adam Smith rethink free markets.

The way to put oneself in a position to take the harder, more honorable political path is to argue for one's virtues in a vigorous way.

Barack Obama is many things; among them, he is a tough and even ferocious political warrior.

I don't consider myself a serious and social political critic.

We're not going to be living in a world where white identity politics is the basis for a major political party.

It seems to me that you would have to write a novel on a very small, intimate scale for it not to become political.

Now that I'm a political pundit, I have the ability to influence people.

Particularly with schizophrenia you see a lot of concern that these people could escape and kill people, or they could threaten our political order.

The north-south line of 'the mountains,' meaning the Cascade Range, forty miles east of Seattle, is a rigid political frontier.

As the political leaders of Europe meet to save the euro and European Union, so should religious leaders.

Art can be very political but that can't be the purpose of art, it can't be the driving force. It isn't with any of the books that I love, anyway.

I can discover no political evil in suffering bullies, sharpers, and rakes, to rid the world of each other by a method of their own; where the law hath not been able to find an expedient.

When I was young I was constantly reading walls; I took in everything written on walls, from love messages to political messages. It was my hobby and became my art.

Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought.

Don't throw up your hands or abandon your values when you run into political difficulties. Stop, get a sense of the political terrain, and experiment with some ways to move cautiously forward.

When people ask me what they should do, I reply, "Get informed, get outraged, and then get political."

The great political tragedy of our time is that conservative leaders in America have chosen to use their superior messaging and political skills to thwart serious action on global warming.

There's a difference, though, between being a political appointee and putting a political operative in charge of a U.S. attorney's office.

It's been encouraging to hear the pope talking about climate change and take it away from being a political issue to being one of survival.

I think that Rahm Emanuel's political career is going to be very difficult to revive after the mismanagement.

I think it's going to be an important policy, the opening of Cuba and I think political policy for the hemisphere.

I think that behind the scenes the Pope [Francis] is seen as more of a religious figure, but obviously he is sort of a global political figure.

I think that you have a situation where one political party, in specific, if you watched the Republican debate, it's all about terrorism.

As President Obama is inaugurated for a second time, the biggest political surprise is that gun control is now key to his political legacy.

All growth, including political growth, is the result of risk-taking.

Conservatives like Palin and Reagan and others do seem to love the series, but so do people of all political stripes and backgrounds. I speak about the series' "radiant simplicity."

I would be happy to accept asylum, political asylum, in India — a nation I love. In return, I will bring Mayawati a range of the finest British footwear.

She cannot see an institution without hitting it with her handbag.