Political Quotes

There's a very fine line between political comedian and activist, and I don't really think I fall over into the activist category.

I know, it's amazing to people that we have a political system, but we do.

Democracies are expense-averse and they think in terms of short-term, political interests rather than a long-term interest in stability.

I am aware that by many persons, it is considered in the nature of a joke to to become a candidate and to be elected as a member of the Legislature.

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

The civilities of the great are never thrown away.

In all political regulations, good cannot be complete, it can only be predominant.

Political liberty is only good insofar as it produces private liberty.

As far as ideology or political beliefs are concerned, countries are very different.

I don't think it's the court's perceived role to do some explaining of a political nature.

If we were real domestic terrorists, shoot, President Obama would be wanting to pal around with us, wouldn't he?

Our own GOP machine, the establishment, they who would assemble the political landscape, they're attacking their own front-runner.

The most powerful political voices are those with a different way of seeing and processing the world and the sounds that emanate from it.

The arts can bring the heart to the aid of the head, the personal to the political.

If free will exists, why do the tallest candidates with the best hair usually win elections ?

Well, Bill, I don't think you're going to find many shy people that are in the political business.

I believe in working together to solve the problems we've got. And we need to get rid of the venom in the political atmosphere in D.C. It's a poisonous atmosphere.

You have to be a political leader, willing to lose an election if you want to do what's right.

A wise governor told me a long time ago, political capital you don't get more of by keeping it. You get it by using it.

I'm an easy target because of my political opinions.

Time Rolls On' is my most political piece so far. It's not on my album because people didn't support it.

Politics is about who wins and loses. The rest is of marginal interest.

The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.

The Baltic countries are sovereign nations. They have the right to decide which military and political bloc they want to be a part of.

I don't want to do a war film per se. Nor do I want to do a political film.

One of the great dangers in political engagement is misplaced hope.

The question for me is not are we political, but how are we political? We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage.

To be political actually means to care about your community.

Government interference with the economic process represents a substitution of political for consumer objectives.

There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons.

Sadly the job security of lawyers has been ruined, so they are less willing to defend political defendants.

George W. Bush has deliberately polarized and divided America for political purposes, politicizing the most basic questions of war and peace for partisan advantage.

It would evidently take more than a political regime, more than dire poverty to stop a woman from wanting to be well-dressed: it was a desire as old as the world, as old as the desire for children.

The influence of being in New York, made me realize a lot of the ethical and political ideas I want to push or promote are best articulated within an anarchist program.

Also, rights are not things that are given in the heavens. Rather, they are levers for political articulations, which enables what was previously invisible to become visible.

Political genius consists in identifying oneself with a principle.

[ Bob Dylan] should let the Nobel Prize Committee know if he is accepting it or not. He will not be the first one who declines the prize for political or personal reasons. He should just tell them.

When any one tells you that he belongs to no party, you may at any rate be sure that he does not belong to yours.

I think from the business point of view, Taiwan and China tied together brings mutual benefit. And we don't see any reason for stopping that progress, unless they have a political reason.

I've been very fortunate to work for great people - so even when the political process gets ugly, I find inspiration in the people around me.

Judges are appointed often through the political process

As a word, ecology has been so debased by recent political usage that many people employ it to identify anything good that happens far from cities and without human interference.

Questions of such gravity go down to the very foundations of the government. If the provisions of the Constitution can be set aside by an act of Congress, where is the course of usurpation to end?

Marriage is this black box which is the key to all social and political problems; the family is the unit.

To be perfectly honest, it isn't fair that people have used my personality, and the sacrifices I make because I want to, as an indication that I want to be in a political office.

I'm just imagining some of [Mark Lilla] fellow liberals being rather angry at you saying such a thing [that Democrats and liberals, more generally, lost a lot of political capital ].

Donald Trump's meeting with the president of Mexico comes after months of bashing that country and its political leadership. Trump has called the Mexican government corrupt and dishonest.

There is now a fairly crowded field out there of people who are incredibly wealthy that are giving money to advance their own political agendas.

I just was non-political and didn't see myself as a person who could push people around, make their decision, you know, and tell them how lousy their work was.

The war on drugs has been a social and political failure. We need to encourage sport and stop encouraging drugs.