Political Quotes

I want to form a political party that's based entirely on what music people listen to. To me, it's a much better barometer of what they think and feel than their political stance.

Anytime you've got something that can take you into the political realm then you've opened up the conversation a lot.

So we're all living spirit. It's not about isms and schims or religions. Religions are almost like political institutions, but the heart of it is the spirituality.

Nima Shirazi is a rare voice of rational analysis and political insight that provides an eloquent counter to the pervasive absurdities that make up popular political discourse.

If a man's public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been.

I have many things to say. My every right, constitutional, civil, political and judicial has been tramped upon. I have not only had no jury of my peers, but I have had no jury at all.

A fierce literary woman with a penchant for married men, Margaret Fuller was ultimately torn between motherhood and her final career as a political reporter.

The political future for Democrats is daunting.

When it comes to pay raises, Congress always plays the role of Grinch. The bill extends an existing pay freeze for Vice President Joe Biden, specifically, and senior political appointees broadly.

The personal is political, but only to a point.

My husband is a Democrat, and I am a Republican, so our political ambitions are on opposite ends.

The problem is, Hamas is using force to try to extort progress on its political objectives.

In every society, the definitions of sanity and madness are arbitrary - are, in the largest sense, political.

The insistence that the commercialisation of the body is a fit subject for political discussion and intervention is well overdue.

I don't consider myself a teacher of moral and political positions. I don't want to be that. I can't help but have a point of view when I make a film, but my first job is to entertain you.

We investigate the past not to deduce practical political lessons, but to find out what really happened.

By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.

How one stands up to any sort of allegation in the heat of political battle reveals the strength and nature of your character. It's one of the reasons we have campaigns.

The extreme center is the political expression of the neoliberal state.

I think the United States and its British attack dog are not taken seriously anywhere in the world and can play no role in helping a political solution.

I do think the Cubans have to change some of the political structures there and allow critical voices, for their own sakes, because unless there is accountability the revolution will totally atrophy.

I think we are making a mistake, a very big mistake if we look at what we call the Arab Awakening only by looking at the whole dynamics in political and not in economic terms.

For me I made it clear that I wanted to meet with both sides of the political spectrum.

Nevertheless, I have no political agenda whatsoever, even though some might think the contrary.

The reason the Constitution gives judges life tenure is so they can be independent of political pressures and follow the law.

I care a heck of a lot more about America than I do about any political party.

I think direct political action, civil disobedience, in particular, is something to be taken very seriously.

I would always consider myself to be political with a small "p," although it makes me mad when people say politics should be kept out of music.

What I see as the greatest threat to America is that the American people will put political pressure on their leaders to pull out of Iraq before we should.

It is one of the basic tenets of fascist leadership to keep primary libidinal energy on an unconscious level so as to divert its manifestations in a way suitable to political ends.

Peace cannot come by legislation or through affiliation with any political philosophy...Peace, joy, and happiness can come only through an acceptance of God's revealed plan of life.

Never, never, you must never either of you remind a man at work on a political job that he may be President.

Politics in America is the binding secular religion.

Always inflation comes gradually; is recognized too late; and can be cured only by ruthless political surgery, which, if delayed too long, proves futile.

Music is more difficult - try naming a political band. The Dead Kennedys. The Dead Kennedys are political, but they are more funny than they are political.

It is difficult to make political art work.

Every political sect has its esoteric and its exoteric school--its abstract doctrines for the initiated; its visible symbols, its imposing forms, its mythological fables, for the vulgar.

Some people would believe anything, especially if it eliminates awkward social and political problems.

Laws themselves, political Constitutions, are not our Life; but only the house wherein our Life is led.

Coining "Dismal Science" as a nickname for Political Economy

persons, with big wigs many of them and austere aspect, whom I take to be Professors of the Dismal Science… Coining “Dismal Science” as a nickname for Political Economy

I don't want anybody to accuse me of taking advantage of the situation to pursue a particular political agenda.

I am a big advocate of what is known as net neutrality. This means that providers are compelled to transmit content without political or commercial pre-selection.

Surrogate motherhood has been the subject of much philosophical and political dispute over the years.

Joe Klein is the flower of American political journalism, a sharp raconteur who shows traces of the gonzo style that was in vogue when he was honing his craft at Rolling Stone back in the day.

The Golden Straitjacket is the defining political-economic garment of globalization. [...] The tighter you wear it, the more gold it produces.

There is a connection between energy, climate, food and political stability. That has played out in the Arab awakening and is not done playing out.

Reason is the Soul of the Law.

The reputation of power IS power.

Corporations are may lesser commonwealths in the bowels of a greater, like worms in the entrails of a natural man.