Political Quotes

It is quite sad, to me, that that ideal, that vision and understanding [of American founding ], doesn't seem to be a part of the current political season.

I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction.

In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for.

That's a good question. Let me try to evade you.

As I have been arguing for a long time now, there is a real need not simply for a political economy of wealth but also for a political economy of speed.

It would be interesting to go to Buckingham Palace. I'd just like to see what goes on - I'm not bothered about hearing any political chat.

There are realities that one needs to deal with, but very often what we are told is political reality is merely cynicism. One could equally say that slavery is a reality, and misogyny too.

It certainly must have been a relief for women of the country to realize that one could be a woman and a lady and yet be thoroughly political.

You can't let a candidate run for too long. He will be dragged along, cut apart, put back together and ripped to shreds again - from both the political opponents and the media.

Every political creation of new money transfers wealth from workers and savers to those who are spending in the market place newly created monetary units which no one has earned.

All political spendings for purposes beyond the protection of life and property are a snare and a delusion.

There's no hidden agenda, no political agenda [in Patriots Day]. The only politics we were really talking about was the politics of community, the politics of social love.

It remains to be seen, for example whether China can continue to develop as a market economy while still retaining an authoritarian communist political system.

Economists think the poor need them to tell them that they are poor.

I'm pretty political when it comes to human rights and things like that.

My problem with political art is not that it's bad art necessarily, but that it is terrible politics.

Redford builds a riveting, resonant political thriller that values the complexity of its characters and the intelligence of its audience.

Those who claim absolutism is merely a myth are right that it has been misused simply as a byword for political centralisation.

If my music is political in a way, and it might be, it's in the way of generating a sensitivity in people, a deeper awareness of the world around them. That's my goal, at least.

I have the most reliable friend you can have in American politics, and that is ready money.

I'm writing a political comedy that takes place in Canada in Quebec. It's funny. Saying political comedy is a little redundant but it's a first. I've never done any comedy per se.

The most intense hatreds are not between political parties but within them.

Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical.

Let the massacres remind us to turn down our political volume and venom.

When one questions [Dalai Lama's] political actions, it is worth remembering that he's the single most experienced politician on the planet at this moment.

I can see that in certain political situations you have to use force to overthrow police states.

The churches must realize that when they take a position on a political event that they must accept the rules of the game.

Every time I have a political rally I meet some people who say, "I need a job."

There is no perfecter endowment in man than political virtue.

Politics is not like an ocean voyage or a military campaign... something which leaves off as soon as reached. It is not a public chore to be gotten over with. It is a way of life.

During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.

For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.

We must apply a judicial rather than a political standard to the information before us [if choosing a Judge].

When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance.

Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession - not conscious planning - provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.

A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.

Fascist political gatherings tend to encourage or at least expect a little violence around the edges, particularly against counter protesters.

Flint and its lead contaminated water are now the focus of sustained national attention including political attention.

Every child is so helpless - just to survive he has to be political, he has to accept whatsoever the parents are saying.

Our legal and political culture has created a bias in the law that borders on censorship against reading, displaying, or quoting the Bible.

Religious conservatives still lack a theology of direct political action.

The chief value of the rule lies in preventing an immediate and obvious but inferior good from replacing a longer-range, less obvious but superior one.

The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservation and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made.

We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed in the word politics ....?

Washington, where an insignificant individual may trespass on a nation's time.

We all either work for rich people or we sell stuff to rich people, so just punishing rich people is as bad for the economy as punishing anyone. Let's not punish anyone.

We have a lot of politicians who have really small brains and really big hearts.

I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I sell?' I love the creativity of it.

I am an optimist. If I ever quit being an optimist, I guess I'll become a Republican.