Political Quotes · Page 105

What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried

— Abraham Lincoln

I have been attacked in Turkey more for my interviews than for my books. Political polemicists and columnists do not read novels…

— Orhan Pamuk

I haven't had a chance to talk, but I'm confident we'll get a bill that I can live with if we don't.

— George W. Bush

Political correctness is driving machismo underground and recalling effeminacy from exile.

— Mason Cooley

Let us wage a moral and political war against war itself, so that we can cut military spending and use that money…

— Bernie Sanders

I'm not a political person, and their ambitions are not mine. They want power. I don't want power.

— Elie Wiesel

Political analysts tend to overinterpret the results of isolated elections.

— Jacob Weisberg

Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the…

— Edmund Burke

Syriza is what it is: a radical, left-wing party that feels the pulse of the times, knows what's at stake, and is…

— Alexis Tsipras

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations…

— Mark Twain

Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying you have a political…

— Jose Saramago

Politics colours everything, and anyone who wants change is necessarily political. As an environmental campaigner more or less since I left school…

— Zac Goldsmith

The problem is this. The spread of markets outpaces the ability of societies and their political systems to adjust to them, let…

— Kofi Annan

Among the droves of men with political ambitions in the United States, I found very few with that virile candor, that manly…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

It's not a lack of competence that is preventing the [Barack] Obama administration from stopping these attacks. It is political correctness. We…

— Ted Cruz

I mean I grew up in Ireland, so one would have to be consciously blinkered not to have reflected on the issue…

— Neil Jordan

There are two ideas of government. There are those who believe that, if you will only legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous,…

— William Jennings Bryan

I attend many functions, go to different areas, you wouldn't have heard any political comment from me. If I go to a…

— Narendra Modi

Man, says Protagoras, now has the wisdom necessary for life ... but he does not have political wisdom. At this point, people…

— Paul Ludwig Landsberg

The State which we have founded must possess the four cardinal virtues of wisdom, courage, discipline and justice ... Justice is the…

— Plato

Through my Faith-Based and Community Initiative, my Administration continues to encourage the essential work of faith-based and community organizations. Governments can and…

— George W. Bush

God was pitched out of forced schooling on his ear after WWII. This wasn't because of any constitutional proscription-there was none that…

— John Taylor Gatto

Immigrants bring to America the values of faith in God, love of family, hard work and self reliance - the values that…

— George W. Bush

In an ironic sense, Karl Marx was right. We are witnessing today a great revolutionary crisis, a crisis where the demands of…

— Ronald Reagan

I mean you've got a conservative and right-winged press presence with really nothing on the other end of the political spectrum.

— Hillary Clinton

All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.

— Frank Chodorov

Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.

— Ludwig von Mises

In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

We have to become involved in the political process - if we don't like it, we can change it.

— Blase J. Cupich

We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions.

— Harri Holkeri

Reform is like morning glories; they look great early in the day and then they disappear.

— George W. Plunkitt

The American mass media have achieved what American political might could not: World domination.

— Akbar S. Ahmed

I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations.

— Thomas Jefferson

I grew up in the home of a political cartoonist, so I was a junkie for politics.

— Rod Lurie

I hope the terms of Excellency, Honor, Worship, Esquire, forever disappear from among us... I wish that of Mr. would follow them.

— Thomas Jefferson

We steer clear of fringe political parties or minority groups. We're not trying to orchestrate a revolution.

— Alexander Nix

I know what motivated you was not just a political campaign. It was your love of our country.

— Alan Nunnelee

I think one of the biggest curses in the U.S. is that we have only two political parties.

— Mark Cuban

My politics are food-related - food banks, the living wage, zero hour contracts - and my food is political.

— Jack Monroe

My political career goes back to the '60s and those were times of vigorous debates.

— Dennis Kucinich