Political Quotes

The government in which I believe is that which is based on mere moral sanction...the real law lives in the kindness of our hearts. If our hearts are empty, no law or political reform can fill them.

The political is not compatible with the artistic, because the former, in order to prove, has to be one-sided.

The political and substantive reality is that the agenda has to change. I don't think they have any choice.

Red lines are kind of political arguments that are used to try to put people in a corner.

Whatever people in general do not understand, they are al ways prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.

It's a privilege to pay taxes. Yeah! It's not a political question, folks. We have to pay for stuff.

Political audiences are not fun.

The fine line that you do when you do political comedy is, as long as you have that laugh, you're fine.

Any political historian can give innumerable examples of one percenters who have gone on to success, maybe even Bill Clinton himself?

I'm not much of a political person and even if I was, look, Rock 'n' Roll is supposed to be fun and sexy and a little bit dangerous.

The political satirist usually votes against their own interests, but the bottom line is that it doesn't really matter.

But man is above all a social and political animal; his relations with his fellow human beings form his most absorbing and important interest.

The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realisation of a political ideal: it is the discharge of a moral obligation.

Judge not according to the orthodox standard of a system religious, philosophical, political, but according as things promote, or fail to promote the delicacy, integrity, and authority of Conscience.

Self-preservation and self-denial: the basis of all political economy.

Religion-freedom-vengeance-what you will, A word's enough to raise mankind to kill.

There is not a more prudent maxim, than to live with one's enemies as if they may one day become one's friends; as it commonly happens, sooner or later, in the vicissitudes of political affairs.

Political liberty is nothing else but the diffusion of power.

If dictatorship is the concentration of power, freedom consists in its diffusion.

We should be able to be ourselves. Make a political stand if you want to

[I talk politics with Ted Turner] quite often. Usually with a great deal of excitement, because he has one political view and I have another. Despite our politics,we've agreed to be friends.

To debate political objectives, views, and goals is the most American thing conceivable.

I'm not a political comedian. That's just not what I do.

Literature is being taught as though it were only political medicine or political poison-a view that is not only illiberal but illiterate.

I don't think that you want to see universities in any way trying to have any kind of quota system about political views, or views in general. You want the market to work in the way the market works.

The things that have made America great are being subverted for the things that make Americans rich.

It was all to do with the change of producer as well as political reasons I don't really comprehend.

It is sometimes easier to form a party than to attain by degrees the head of a party already formed.

People show surprise that I have interests outside my political career. There is subtle surprise, for example, that I would be interested in a recipe.

I don't want to beat people over the head with my political views. It's more about the humanitarian aspect of it.

As soon as the economic freedom which the market economy grants to its members is removed, all political liberties and bills of rights become humbug.

I'm willin' for any solution - religious, political. I'm not going to keep offerin' to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. It indicates a weakness on our part.

If music's a political place, I'm out.

We know that those huge U.S. brands do have political sway.

I believe that white frame house is worthy of more than a nod of nostalgia, because the values President Clinton learned there and in Hope formed the core of his political philosophy.

Every new president inherits headaches, but President Obama has inherited an entire emergency room.

I am such a political person.

Like art, political action gives shape and expression to the things we fear as well as to those we desire. It is a creative process, drawing on the power to imagine as well as to act.

Political success is often dependent on the ability to be heard above the din of controversy and debate and to set a course with one's own compass.

The political environment we create matters because a disturbed person cannot always tell the difference between explosive rhetoric and explosive actions.

Our democracy flourishes when people stand up for themselves and engage in the political process.

The avowed policy of non-co-operation has been not to make political use of the disputes between labour and capital.

Non-co-operation in the political field is an extension of the doctrine as it is practised in the domestic field.

My plea is for banishing the English language as a cultural usurper, as we successfully banished the political rule of the English usurper.

People have the right to come and choose their own political solutions.

People read more mysteries than they do political pamphlets.

I think that the problem of the American negro goes beyond the principle of any organization whether it's a religious, political, or otherwise.

Most of those Negroes have been given those jobs by the white political machine, and they serve no other function other than to, as window dressing.

Economic policy and decision making do not function in a political vacuum.

India's political system also would need to be modernized.