Political Quotes

The weave of the personal and the political finally proves as irresistible as it is moving, partly because it has been drawn from extraordinary life.

In literary and art criticism there are two criteria, the political and the artistic.

I also spend a lot of time on political blogs, and music blogs getting things for my radio show.

I knew most of my radio listeners were lefty political people, and I decided definitively not to be that guy - not to address politics.

Cubans must prove that they're political refugees. And if they can prove that they're really fleeing persecution, well, they would qualify as refugees.

The reason we have a Cuban Adjustment Act is because, at the beginning, they [migrants] were fleeing political persecution.

I believe in freedom of speech. And I believe that spending on political campaigns is a form of political speech that is protected under the constitution.

You have to deal with the reality that in the political process, people are going to vote based on what they're hearing from their constituents and others.

I'm not new to the political process; I was making a contribution as the speaker of the third largest and most diverse state in the country well before I even got into the Senate.

People might not protest for overtly political or social causes, but when they can't feed themselves and their family, they will take to the streets.

Persistence in a single view has never been regarded as a merit in political leaders.

I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view.

It's important to feel beautiful; it's political to feel beautiful.

People are so sensitive about race that they can't hear someone speaking about their life in a very true way, or doing satire or political parody.

Our challenge is to not look away, but rather to transform the field; to create a new political conversation, our own conversation, out of which we can speak our truth in our own way.

The Founders didn't mention political parties when they wrote the Constitution, and George Washington in essence warned us against them in his Farewell Address.

To me, everything happening inside of us is political.

Anything having to do with what is happening inside people has political significance to me. That is why I like the term "holistic politics."

We need to recognize that part our political problem is that we do not participate effectively, that we suffer from a kind of mental slumber.

I'm not a fan in a rock concert, you see. I am a political leader in a great nation of the world. What interests me are France's interests.

There was in Italy a hidden demand for a boring government which would try to tell the truth in non-political jargon.

Journalism is a way of voicing opinion, of participating in the political, social, or cultural debate.

I'm a very individualistic person. That is why I don't belong to any political party or anything. I really believe in justice and freedom.

If today I have to make a political statement, it is, 'I love beauty.' I think beauty makes people better.

It's no use trying to talk philosophy to our politicians. And I'm not a moral or political philosopher. I'm not interested in that.

I think certainly everybody is aware of the potential for just the very inflamed political mood in America .

I think one of the biggest curses in the U.S. is that we have only two political parties.

I think political people are afraid of me.

The Point, not unlike the Communist Chinese, the ACLU abhors individual religious freedom, and it supports only those civil liberties that fit its narrow political agenda.

All social space is suffused with political meanings and agendas, the very stones and walls a kind of testament to the ongoing struggles for liberation and justices.

Office tends to confer a dreadful plausibility on even the most negligible of those who hold it.

Spirituality in Washington can be more of a - I don't want to say it - but, a networking opportunity. Religion is often used opportunistically in the political conversation.

Universities in general and my university in particular really has to reach out and find ways to engage more with a broader array of ideas and political thought.

The fact is that it's the most dangerous place to be on the political scale is to brand those on the other side as racist. That's the atomic bomb. That's the nuclear weapon of an American.

Health care, it's going to be political. It's going to be, let's say, the confluence of the politics and the messy implementation.

When the party holds the White House, all the political decisions are made in the White House. And being a party chair, you're just an artifact.

The president has borrowed more money to spend to less effect than anybody on the planet.

It's improper to use the egg roll for political purposes.

In truth I care little about any party's politics—the man behind it is the important thing.

If you can come up with a snappy little slogan, then you have a future in winning tagline competitions or being a political speech writer.

You could power America with renewables from a technical and economic standpoint. The biggest obstacles are social and political - what you need is the will to do it.

To capture the human cost of fallen empire with all its horror and absurdity, Sheets offers the right combination: the political insight of a top reporter and the power of a novelist.

The World Cup is not just a great global sporting event, it is also inscribed with much deeper cultural and political importance.

I still hope that the American system of checks and balances will ultimately prevent this man, Donald Trump, with his erratic political style, from jeopardizing our European security architecture.

It's interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant.

I would also hope that no one would think about trying to amend the constitution as a political strategy.

I've been through so many different political races.

Republicans seems to me to be chiefly concerned with holding on to what they have: in society, it's position, or respectability, or what you will; in business, of course, it's profit.

The Republicans think they have a corner on morality.

The best propaganda omits rather than invents