Political Quotes

I'm a big fan of the vigor of civil society, political engagement, and public life in many parts of Latin America.

A lot of times, in music especially, it's producers making a political decision.

Beginning with the stimulus, Obama has repeatedly inserted the government into the free market for political reasons - and with disastrous results.

The architecture per se isn't at fault. The more important factor, in my view, is the political neglect of these areas, which have essentially been cut off from other neighborhoods.

There are times when every act, no matter how private and unconscious, becomes political.

I am close friends with Marina Abamovich, so I love strong, very aggressive political art. She is like a mom who wants to adopt me.

You dont have to be a political genius to sniff the smell of blood in the water.

Any [political] party without principles is rudderless and passive.

I think if there is to be a crime of 'political genocide' it needs to be formulated with great care and precision to avoid unpopular views from being criminalised.

A terrorist is one who kills innocents for the pursuit of a political aim.

The best way to reduce emissions and pollution is not through partisan political theater but through developing consensus on areas that will bring about effectual change.

the principles of political economy have elevated the working class above the place they ever filled before.

American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.

It is universally accepted that an admission of atheism would be instant political suicide for any (U.S.) presidential candidate.

Any political situation has many sides... We intellectualize the whole situation any way... We make our intellectual decisions based on our cultural background and how we live.

A nation can't get strong on political pablum.

Where the hell is Chad?

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

Those few days after Kent State were among the darkest of my presidency.

The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.

You see, to me, it doesnt really matter if an elected official has a D or an R behind her name, or his name. I honestly dont give a damn about who belongs to either political party.

It takes two things to make a political lie work: a powerful person or institution willing to utter it, and another set of powerful institutions to amplify it.

You have a problem with allowing someone to finish speaking.

I try to avoid political ties.

Bashing the Religious Right has become an acceptable political sport.

I'm not looking for peace on earth, though, through a political solution. I'm a pastor.

I do like to make films with a political theme, but sometimes it's nice simply to make people laugh. That's the hardest thing to do in fact.

Political elections are not life and death.

The best way to appreciate our political process is to volunteer for a campaign and support a candidate you believe in.

We agreed that we cannot let personal political attacks get in the way of doing the very best we can for California's children.

I hate to see anybody be unemployed, but if there's a certain segment of society I think it's political consultants and operatives.

The worst side of people is political part of the process, the side that can be very mean and nasty.

But artistically, my art I kept very separate from my political beliefs, deliberately and very, very rarely would I allow that kind of thing into it.

I may have a lot of political opinions but it doesn't necessarily come into my work. I keep the two worlds separate.

Someday a political genius will come along and make the Senate work.

Herman Brown was a businessman who wanted value for money spent. His relationships with politicians were measured by that criterion.

I was trying to learn about Lyndon Johnson when he was young and creating his first political machine in the Texas hill country. I moved there for three years. You had to learn that world

The opposing tendencies of concentration and spread are of little consequence in the liberal model of political economy.

To a large extent, the political walls are crumbling.

What a heap of ash most political careers amount to, when one really stops to consider them!

I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.

I think that what art can do is refresh our sense of justice, wake us up to what we've taken for granted in the political realm, as in the other realms.

The problem with describing poets as legislators is that at that level of politics - politics as political invention - poets have no special skills and are not apt to.

Tolling plan is a wonderful opportunity for political pandering, and some candidates are taking full advantage of it.

People are people, and grief that is limited to those within a specific political boundary denies the humanity of others.

The member of Congress who is not making a career of politics looks quite differently at the world.

Gary Hart is going to be all over the political spectrum fuzzing it up just like Jack Kennedy.

Nowadays, you cannot be a very Effective political figure without Having a demonstrable sense of humor. People take to it.

I am passionate. I am political about my country, about what it is, how strong it is, how strong it remains.

The range of debate between the dominant U.S. [political] parties tends to closely resemble the range of debate within the business class.