Political Quotes

The interesting artists I know are the ones doing political work. The most interesting people I know are the people who care about politics.

I appeal to the Youth and those on the ground: start talking to each other across divisions of race and political organizations.

Only armchair politicians are immune from committing mistakes. Errors are inherent in political action.

Bowing to the Saudi king is not an energy policy.

We are going to have the candidate of food stamps, the finest food-stamp president in the American history, in Barack Obama, and we are going to have a candidate of paychecks.

Political stability was at most a factor in assessing developing countries or Russia. It is now also an issue in Western democracies.

The rise of populist parties such as the Five Star Movement in Italy and the Front National in France are rocking the political certainties of the last decades. And that also affects the economy.

There isn't a political price to be paid yet for doing nothing. People need to get upset with President Bush. People need to get upset with their Congressmen.

You can register a political objection in a number of ways.

You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed.

We are communal beings who love to get together in groups and share emotions - like sporting events, rock concerts and political rallies. We crave tribal membership.

Women are much smarter then men and often are much more political creatures, so they can have the ability to manipulate men, particularly on a boat.

Commodity exchanges have a lot of advantages. One, you are helping transparency. Two, they are not political. It's institutional building. It can survive any environment, in theory.

Loving a woman is always political.

In the United States, the political system is a very marginal affair. There are two parties, so-called, but they're really factions of the same party, the Business Party.

Putting it in plain terms, the general public must be reduced to its traditional apathy and obedience, and driven from the arena of political debate and action, if democracy is to survive.

This Sarah Palin phenomenon is very curious. I think somebody watching us from Mars — they would think the country has gone insane.

Roughly speaking, I think it's accurate to say that a corporate elite of managers and owners governs the economy and the political system as well, at least in very large measure.

The first step is to penetrate the clouds of deceit and distortion and learn the truth about the world, then to organize and act to change it. That's never been impossible and never been easy.

Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.

I have written occasionally on links between my scientific work and political thinking, but not much, because the links seem to me abstract and speculative.

The reason I am a political radical is that I work on syntax. If I worked on semantics (which in fact I do), I'd be a good Thatcherite.

No sane human being devotes 100% of his or her life to political activism.

Finally Irish were accepted into society and became part of the political system, and there were Kennedys, and so on. But the same is true about other waves of immigrants, like the Jews in the 1950s.

My own feeling is that a corporation has no right to have a political or social influence.

If you're watching a comedian on television and he's making a political point, I would say he's gotten too serious.

A government can do only what is feasible given the political and economic context.

Political stuff is all about his [Hunter S. Thompson] reaction to a situation. And my stuff is much more externally driven.

There aren't many political humorists. Dave Barry is excellent, but he doesn't do it much.

[Al] Franken is left-wing and funny. He's a pretty good political humorist.

God has no role to play in politics except to make sure politicians go where they belong. To hell.

The American political system is like fast food - mushy, insipid, made out of disgusting parts of things and everybody wants some.

Intelligence collection has been given an additional bureaucracy to correct the problems created by too much bureaucracy in intelligence collection.

You can't get something for nothing. Everybody remembers this except politicians.

I'm a political conservative.

In the American political system, you're only allowed to have real ideas if it's absolutely guaranteed that you can't win an election

Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.

The political process consists entirely of politicians talking out of their butts.

I think every film is somehow a political film. You show a perspective and a world that has logic, and that logic is inserted into a political environment, and it means something. Yes, why not?

I'd love to say that I could write political songs, but I don't feel clued-up enough.

There have been many instances of people combining the political life with the spiritual life, a life of constant self-examination. Gandhi was a great example of that.

I'm a raging leftist political activist. I've never had a spiritual thought in my life related to God. I'm clear that that's a human invention.

I'm excited about the state of women's spiritual life and interior life and who women are. I wish the political establishment would catch up, because we still don't have equal rights in America.

A lot of the music that I grew up loving has a really political bent to it.

I never want to be that guy spouting off my political views. I mean, they're pretty well known, and it certainly comes out.

I think we can work through a lot of political and international problems, but what really frightens me is what's happening environmentally.

Everybody's got to reclaim these thingspoetry, rock'n'roll, political activismand it's got to be done over and over again. It's like eating: you can't say,'Oh, I ate yesterday'.You have to eat again.

In the modern world, we Americans are the old inhabitants. We first had political freedom, high industrial production, an economy of abundance.

I wanted to do a political film that is as nonpartisan as can be, because I wanted to do a story that was American. I wanted to tell an American tragedy.

John Major is what he is: a man from nowhere, going nowhere, heading for a well-merited obscurity as fast as his mediocre talents can carry him.