Political Quotes

The demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past.

Women tend to give political candidates only about 10 percent of what males give, and males give women candidates only 10 percent of what they give to males.

Political scientists have often described Gaullism as a sort of Bonapartism. I myself have occasionally compared Sarkozy to Napoleon Bonaparte.

I don't get asked a lot of questions about who is the best political candidate or what my position is on what the Senate is about to do.

I'd like to think I'm going upriver in talking about world-view topics rather than particular political or controversial topics.

My basic political posture is "what a shame the human race did this to earth." What we have done environmentally, politically, culturally.

I do respect the political process and those that cover politics on a regular basis. It's just not for me.

I read all the time so it's difficult to say who my all-time favourites are. One is George Orwell, because he makes political writing so simple a child could understand it.

Chinese central government doesn't need to even lead public opinion: it just selectively stops censorship. In other words, just as censorship is a political tool, so is the absence of censorship.

Just pick a political story at random and read the comments. There is no logic or reason on either side - only hypocrisy and hate.

All of which raises another question: If Obamacare is so great, why do so many people want to get out from under it?

I'm defining [presidential courage] pretty narrowly. It's not only taking a big political risk but it's also the risk that in the hindsight of history, people think it's wise.

I think that most of the candidates [for presidency] can't run the railroad, and I still worry that whoever gets elected will have policies designed for political rather than practical reasons.

Controlling for all the things that sociologists, economists, and political scientists say you should control for, we find that what drives one's views [most significantly] is race.

Auschwitz exists because of politicized science.

Hip-hop has globalized a conception of blackness that has had a political impact, whether or not it had a political intent.

When I think of Spirit, I think of that mysterious force that pulls us into being, into becoming, into love. That can get political rather quickly.

It is boring to have all the answers. Only political people have answers.

There are all kinds of different forms of public service, but there's no form of public service that can make more difference for more people than partisan political activity.

Political utopias are a form of nostalgia for an imagined past projected onto the future as a wish.

One of the things I find very little of in America - and certainly not on Broadway - are plays with political attitudes.

The American political system is so porous, it's so open, it's so frustrating for those who are trying to make policy.

American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world.

When I make a film, I'm not doing it purely for political reasons. If I just wanted to do that, I'd run for office.

And realising that humour is the most powerful way to make a political statement and say the things that you want to say. And it's not used enough, at least not in the U.S.

I and you and everyone else has to be a political activist.

All of our political parties are bought and paid for by corporate America, Wall Street, and the wealthy interests. The Republican Party more so, but the Democrats take their share of the loot, too.

When I got political that blew our marriage out of the water. I was not the same person and I admit that.

Any story you write about war, or film you make about war, is bound to be political whether you like it or not.

Congress does two things well: nothing and overreacting.

Profits are what you make when not working.

Russia became a juicy chunk of the Third World, with immense reserves of cheap labor, a vast treasure of natural resources, and industrial assets to be sold off at giveaway prices.

Actually, the New Deal's central dedication was to business recovery rather than social reform.

Eating is a political act.

Life's saving graces are love, pleasure, laughter ... wisdom, it seems, is for the Hereafter.

I lived as best I could, and then I died. Be careful where you step: the grave is wide.

Hell hath no fury like a frustrated fundamentalist whose God condemned him to "hell" for having "impure thoughts."

Every political card played by Jeb Bush has been Trumped; every political note played by The Donald has been Trumpeted.

I think we have such a political cesspool in America right now.

NATO as a political alliance does need to be relooked at in terms of everything - resourcing, capabilities.

We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions; we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.

Our religion is made to eradicate vices, instead it encourages them, covers them, and nurtures them.

The clatter of arms drowns out the voice of law.

The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.

You can't take money from the taxpayers out of the treasury to give it to pay off your political donors. That's corruption to do that.

The good news is, the cake is baked. Barack Obama will not be reelected president.

Sarah Palin is a compelling political figure.

While I am reluctant to cite sexism as a political issue, sexism certainly can exist.

We are in a social and political context in which the norm is to punish poor folks of color rather than to educate and empower them with economic opportunity.

It's hard to change adults, and it's hard to change it from a political position or a perceived political position.