Political Quotes · Page 108

I was a political junkie, and it just exhausted me, and after Obama won, I just kind of unplugged from all of…

— Adam Scott

Political debates in the United States can be untethered from facts, but threats to life focus minds on reality.

— Tom Malinowski

How stagnant and tepid the whole British political scene is now is just beyond belief.

— Irvine Welsh

Everybody makes personal decisions that are right for them and if you're in political life, you're used to having those analyzed.

— Elizabeth Edwards

In my view, a political vision is not a grab-bag of discrete problems and solutions. It is the visionary anticipation of a…

— Roberto Unger

Political reporters and political professionals rushed to judgment against Romney because we crave clear, unambiguous story lines.

— Ron Fournier

The true measure of a city is its soul. This is the restless energy that doesn't wait for political leadership.

— Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

I witnessed a lot of violence, and I found myself asking the question: Do you ever use violence to try to bring…

— Mairead Corrigan

If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat…

— Iris Chang

I do think a lot of brands shy away from politics, and that's a shame. I want BOB to be political, despite…

— Dawn O'Porter

I think President Bush is a moron! I think that the only reason he was voted into office is because his family…

— Cristian Machado

Laws and mechanisms originally meant to enforce copyright, protect children and fight online crime are abused to silence or intimidate political critics.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

The biggest danger for a politician is to shake hands with a man who is physically stronger, has been drinking, and is…

— William Proxmire

We are creating a political demolition derby, not a presidential debate. Those strange impulses in the American soul that have produced mud…

— Hugh Sidey

Unless we do things in this country to slow down our population, slow down our birth control, provide better water for people,…

— Evel Knievel

You are Americans. You love this country. Together we are entrusted with the principles that represent mankind's greatest political and social achievement.

— Paul Tsongas

There are areas using what's called the "checkerboard strategy." They are different cities where you can move around the "checkerboard," doing things…

— Gar Alperovitz

With an abusive political relationship, with a political party that's throwing you under the bus, sister, I'm sorry to say but you…

— Jill Stein

My political opinions lean more and more to anarchy. The most improper job of any man, even saints, is bossing other men.…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Power will go to the hands of rascals, rogues, freebooters; all Indian leaders will be of low calibre & men of straw.…

— Winston Churchill

By remaining behind the scenes, they (the Rothschilds) were able to avoid the brunt of public anger which was directed, instead, at…

— G. Edward Griffin

Peoples have come to experience that political structures and divisions of power are not immutable. Nor will they perceive the distribution of…

— Bob Hawke

Impeachment really is not a criminal proceeding. The American people have been conditioned to believe that, you know, high crimes and misdemeanors…

— Rush Limbaugh

Privacy is absolutely essential to maintaining a free society. The idea that is at the foundation of the notion of privacy is…

— Benno C. Schmidt, Jr

In political and social analysis, we still have not cut off the head of the king.

— Michel Foucault

I don't set out to write a political song. I am not one of those that feels compelled to write about what's…

— Stephen Stills

I grew up in the sort of cultural milieu that always regarded conversations about the political discourse as tremendously low-brow.

— Joseph Brodsky

No economic, political or military power can compare with the power of a change of mind

— Willis Harman

Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

— Edouard Herriot

It [Socialism] was a kind of political hockey played by big, gaunt, dyspeptic girls in pants.

— Mary McCarthy

I never met a politician who didn't want to be a guitar player in a rock band. I've got the opportunity to…

— Billy Bragg

In the poetry of immigrants, nostalgia is as common as confetti at parades or platitudes at political conventions.

— Amitava Kumar

At its grandest, political correctness is an attempt to accelerate evolution.

— Martin Amis

People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war.

— George McGovern

This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve.

— George W. Bush

I feel so Scottish when I go abroad, and I'm so proud of it, but for me, it's not a political statement…

— Michelle Gomez

I see ethical considerations as having a certain priority in our interactions - passing judgment on our political and legal processes.

— John Kleinig

Free competition exists inside shelters of law, custom, insurance, political approval, and carefully protected status.

— Mason Cooley

I like that Ben & Jerry's is willing to speak out about social and political issues that aren't always safe - but…

— Jerry Greenfield

We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.

— Kofi Annan