Political Quotes

As an actress, I think there is always a political consciousness there.

I want to make films that are political and social. Films with a message or an idea. Films that dare to ask.

There is a holy mistaken zeal in politics as well as religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.

The Liberty of the press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman.

I don't have a particular go-to political blog.

I don't consider my homosexuality a political thing. I consider it a sexual and spiritual thing. I only started going to political rallies to meet women.

In politics, it's what isn't said that matters.

I'm the rap version of Dave Chappelle. I'm not sayin' I'm nearly as talented as Chappelle when it comes to political and social commentary, but like him, I'm laughing to keep from crying.

I also think that there's something about the graphic, political nature of such attacks, mixed with the fact that it all seems completely random to the victims.

For me, the bold jazz of John Coltrane and Miles Davis reflected the bold attitude in African-Americans finding their political identity and voice.

I also do political cartoons, but a lot of them must stay, as they say, under the coat. But they are very fun to do, and in France, we have a good subject at the moment.

In Washington, the public and the private intertwine in such a way that they can't be easily separated. This is the city where the personal and the political are most closely linked.

No partisan political activity transpired in my office during the recount period.

I made the decision that my contribution needed to be more musical than political. My music was enough, politically. Art matters. Art was enough. My music was enough to say what I had to say.

I really love that I'm giving myself the opportunity finally to not have the pressure of every single song you do having to be "political" or whatever. I'm just making what I wanna make.

Some suggested over the weekend that it is wrong to expect Elian Gonzalez to live in a place that tolerates no dissent or freedom of political expression. They were talking about Miami.

Attempting to grapple with improving end-of-life care is a political third rail.

I think that one of the questions that I asked of myself in later years was to this point of the political directive.

Governor Romney is suffering from political amnesia.

[The loss-of-strength gradient is] the degree to which military and political power diminishes as we move a unit distance away from its home base.

I've been a strong financial and political supporter of, first, President Bush Sr. when he was running for president, and even when he ran for president a time or two and failed.

Any country that has sexual censorship will eventually have political censorship.

It's exciting to me that people know that I'm someone who's very political.

Detroit's political leadership is a parasite that has outgrown its host.

In America, the economy is simply nowhere near bad enough to serve as the base of any kind of serious political revolution.

I'm driven by issues, not driven to be political.

I've never heard of a situation where, because somebody had a particular political belief, they didn't get a part. I think it's a bit of a myth.

You'll always see me at a political rally and the black strip club; I'm gonna represent smoking weed and supporting Trayvon Martin on my record, because I'm a whole man.

I don't accept the term 'political rapper' because I don't give a damn about either political party. I give a damn about the people.

Political art never goes away. I started watching The West Wing show recently and I'm actually learning about how the government works in a way. It's kind of embarrassing.

Women are foils to men. It is hard for women to take a lead role even in NGOs for political resistance.

It was a mistake to speak one's mind at any time, unless it perfectly matched your political purpose; and it never did.

Politics makes strange post-masters.

I'm fascinated how owning something, especially something as big as a home, can affect your political leanings. Home ownership spawns thoughts of equity and maintaining value.

Art doesn't have the stench of a community program. It's transcendent. It is transcendent of morality and transcendent of political position. It is absolutely free. It is the community center.

Having worked my way from the bottom of the ladder to the top [of the UN] certainly helped me navigate that complexity, both political and bureaucratic.

Words have always been political, and that means that, in many people's minds, dictionaries are political. Because that's what dictionaries do: they do words.

Having parents who were hard working, blue collar, and staunchly independent, neither political party's positioning really impressed me.

George Bush and his gang imagine they are being political geniuses.

I don't think political correctness doesn't make any difference. Once that's in your DNA, you don't pass an ordinance or pass a law or all of the sudden change your DNA.

Instruct regulators to look for the newest fad in the industry and examine it with great care. The next mistake will be a new way to make a loan that will not be repaid.

Homosexual behavior is and will always remain before the Lord an abominable sin. Calling it something else by virtue of some political definition does not change that reality.

We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built.

The National Federation of Republican Women has a long history of helping bring women into the political process while promoting the Republican cause.

There's nothing political about American literature.

On Twitter, Donald Trump has called me a "poor journalist, stupid, a very dumb guy, the dumbest political commentator on television, and the dumbest man on TV."

That seems to be a woman who is genuinely depressed that this is the political dialogue she [Hillary Clinton] is been thrown into in the 21st century in running for president of the United States.

We shall succeed only so far as we continue to undertake “the intolerable labor of thought” — that most distasteful of all our activities.

I thought I was really a radical, political person, which of course I am not.

The clarification of our political ideas insensibly changes into and becomes indistinguishable from the history of political ideas.