Political Quotes · Page 101

Politics, as any observer of the modern world knows, is the enemy of economics, everywhere and always.

— John Derbyshire

Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?

— Abbie Hoffman

Even today with the public's growing interest in food and diet issues, politicians rarely include food as part of their political platforms.

— Anonymous

So on behalf of a well-oiled unit of people who came together to serve something greater than themselves, congratulations.

— George W. Bush

Hollywood has always been political. They consider it their right and duty to tell us what is politically good and right.

— Mike Royko

Twelve states in the Great Plains have a wind energy potential greater then the electric use of our entire nation.

— Michael Pare

If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.

— Anonymous

I came up in left-wing political writing. My first job out of college was working as Gore Vidal's fact checker.

— Morgan Neville

It is very disturbing to see people use Christianity and the Bible to support a certain political agenda, especially when one cannot…

— Anne Rice

I knew Saleh well, having interviewed and met with him several times. He was a professional Machiavelli, fluent in all forms for…

— Jamal Khashoggi

Lawyers should not be charged with the same crimes as their clients. Trials related to political charges are not in accordance with…

— Shirin Ebadi

In speaking of natural rights, therefore, it is essential to remember that these alleged rights have no political force whatsoever, unless recognized…

— Charles Edward Merriam

Mandates are rarely won on election night. They are earned after Inauguration Day by leaders who spend their political capital wisely, taking…

— Ron Fournier

I still believe that term limits is the best way to ensure that the next generation, not the next election, is the…

— Tom Coburn

It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into…

— Frederic Bastiat

We've seen it in the last U.S. presidential campaign 2016: both sides were trading graphs and circulating data visualizations to make their…

— David Mccandless

The question of crime is one of concern to everybody. But the position is that the security forces in our country for…

— Nelson Mandela

Take the US. Women were not even able to vote until 90 ago, at about the same time they gained the right…

— Noam Chomsky

The greatest embarrassment of my political career has been that active duties seem to deprive me of time for careful investigation. I…

— Woodrow Wilson

This is a woman [Hillary Clinton] who for many of her 52 years never cared a fig about her appearance, but in…

— Gail Sheehy

The mistake the world is making with the simple peoples is to try and hurry them into political concepts they don't understand…

— Ramon Magsaysay

I was born in Brazil and grew up in the '70s under a climate of political distress, and I was forced to…

— Vik Muniz

For myself the delay [in assuming the office of the President] may be compared with a reprieve; for in confidence I assure…

— George Washington

This separation of government from people, this widening of the gap, took place so gradually and so insensibly, each step disguised (perhaps…

— Milton Mayer

You don't want political acts to become something you just have to do in order to look good.

— MO

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

— Scott Pelley

There is so much corruption in India that some filmmakers were using political or administrative sources to get access.

— Vivek Agnihotri

“Think about the precedents you are setting. It's the Left that runs the world on reckless emotionalism. Don't join.”

— Michelle Malkin

When these political action committees give money, they expect something in return other than good government.

— Bob Dole

I have the happy circumstance of either being accused of political grandstanding on the one hand or cover-ups on the other.

— Ben Chandler

I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.

— Naguib Mahfouz

The American military will never lose the war in Iraqif lost, it will be lost by a lack of political will.

— Joe Lieberman

No rising hope on the political scene who offered his services to Labour when I happened to be its leader can be…

— Michael Foot

My dad was a city councilman and a county commissioner, so I grew up involved and engaged in the political process.

— Bill Huizenga

The Democratic party today is not so much a political party as a milling herd, and the herd is easily stampeded.

— Emmett Tyrrell

Careerism in Washington "goes to the heart of what's wrong in America right now."

— Tom Coburn

We tell our thoughts, like our children, to put on their hats and coats before they go out.

— Henry Watson Fowler

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

— Peter Wilson

Even with the right political climate, would the wrong people refrain from doing the wrong thing?

— William A. Dembski

The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than…

— Will Rogers