Political Quotes

I use to watch like maybe three or four movies, five days out of the week. I was a movie buff, but I really didn't know what it was like behind the scenes, or the whole political process of it.

Very early on I was interested in doing political art, but it was not feminist political art.

I have made on occasion posters and things like that for political reasons but not my work.

Politicians are masters of sounding like they agree with you.

And I remember looking at Gray Davis and, you know, Gray is the consummate political operative.

By and large, people are sort of technologically averse in the political space.

Politics isn't something that really interested me; I, of course, care about what's going on in the world, but so much of political discourse now is not necessarily about doing what's right.

I think people are tuning out the political class, tuning out the national media, and the American people are just gonna - we're just gonna demand government as good as our people again.

America's political system is superior to the crony corrupt corrupt capital system in Russia in every way.

All poetry is political, to some degree.

Well, killing me makes no sense because Georgia already has a Western-educated political class.

If China don't free up the political side, its economic growth will come to an end - while it is still at a very low level.

Modern man worships at the temple of science, but science tells him only what is possible, not what is right.

April frowned, irritation evident. “I did not consent to your presence,” she said peevishly. “Please depart, and attempt your political assassination on someone else’s property.

The issue of cyber-security, cyber-crime, and cyber-malfeasance has an impact on a whole range of issues, not the least of which is civil liberties, political activity, and so on and so forth.

What we have said and - and - and with which I concur is that we should use every diplomatic and political vehicle that's available to us to keep Iran from becoming a nuclear capability state.

I went to Massachusetts to make a difference. I didn't go there to begin a political career running time and time again. I made a difference. I put in place the things I wanted to do.

The nation, as you know, is at a critical point. At a time like this we can't risk partisan bickering and political posturing. Our leaders have to reach across the aisle to do the people's work.

I suppose I felt guilty not to be doing something more important, more political. So in a way I am trying to use the company for these other activities.

The aggressive, energised, political, or even politicised, culturally aware music hasn't really existed [recently].

In an odd way, Donald Trump and maybe Brexit is gonna be great for inspiring a new wave of socially conscious political music.

The time is right for a political solution and the way is negotiations.

I think writing is a very political act. I think that any writer who says it's not, is simply a writer who is disavowing the political connotations of what they write.

Any stimulus package amounts to taking money from the pockets of some Americans and placing it in the pockets of others who have better political connections.

We can look at history and see that [political turmoil is] fertile ground for art.

I also think that [political turmoil] gives artists something, a way of kind of processing.

To succeed inside a political party, one must cultivate an ability to sit still and remain polite while foolish people speak nonsense

Never miss a political meeting if you think there's the slightest chance you'll wish you'd been there.

I don't call myself a political figure but I'm taken to be.

I will deal with the politicians in a political way and with the nonpoliticians in a nonpolitical way.

I'm not sitting in judgment on whether or not libertarians can participate in a political process whose very nature they oppose.

Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes

As an organized political group, the Communists have done nothing to damage our society a fraction as much as what their enemies have done in the name of defending us against subversion.

But of course in my world nothing is political. And everything's about policy and governance. And maybe a bit of politics.

In political administration, no problem is ever simple. It can never be reduced to the question whether a certain measure is good or not.

If I talk about coal, people will start equating my statements with a political angle. This is not a platform for politics, I'm not making any allegations on anyone.

I am not from a political family. I never had the opportunity to meet the world leaders earlier.

I don't want to get into political mudslinging.

Not only does political coverage often lose the signal—it frequently accentuates the noise.

Force, governmental coercion, is the instrument by which the ethics of altruism - the belief that the individual exists to serve others - is translated into political reality.

I do detest all offices - all, at least, that are held on a political tenure.

Every dimension of the gospel is relevant to one or more of our social and political problems of our time.

Who invented political tolerance? The English invented it, it's something which has taken roots with some difficulty in Scottish politics.

Politicians are frightened to death of people who actually believe in liberty.

There is no limit to the hunger politicians have for the money you've worked so hard for. ... You can tell them to take a hike, but then the guns come out.

Is there anything more dangerous to the cause of liberty than a politician fixated on re-election?

Congress' passing of the omnibus spending bill without reading it shows more than anything why they can't be trusted.

There's something about political comedy that sometimes closes people off, and my general goal is to open people right up.

I mean I grew up in Ireland, so one would have to be consciously blinkered not to have reflected on the issue of political violence because that was the story since I was 19 years old or 20.

The youth of this country are not behind what is going on. We all know that. If you looked at a [political] map of the United States 25 and under, it's all-revealing. It's a unified map.