Political Quotes · Page 109

Majority of the African countries are now enjoying stable governance. Before you talk about economic growth, political stability is key.

— Goodluck Jonathan

Democracy, like liberty, justice and other social and political rights, is not "given", it is earned through courage, resolution and sacrifice.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Peace is an extension of war by political means. Plenty of elbow-room is pleasanter -- and much safer.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Israeli Arabs have more political rights than any other Arabs in the Middle East, including their compatriots in the Palestinian Authority.

— Jack Schwartz

Funny that all of Nixon's crimes - anonymous campaign cash, wiretapping, undeclared wars - are all legal now. Discuss.

— Bill Maher

Gold will not always get you good soldiers, but good soldiers can get you gold.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Sistani’s office refuses the replacement of the law because it is not an Iraqi demand but it is a political demand to…

— Ali al-Sistani

Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The things you refuse to meet today always come back at you later on, usually under circumstances which make the decision twice…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

As industrial technology advances and enlarges, and in the process assumes greater social, economic, and political force, it carries people away from…

— Wendell Berry

There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you…

— Boris Yeltsin

The Republic of Macedonia is being built on democratic ideals and values, not on ethnic groups. Those ideals and values include economic…

— Boris Trajkovski

Putin has had many positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia.

— Al Franken

Burma - and let me be clear, it's also known as Myanmar - and the reason a lot of Burmese and Burmese…

— Alex Wagner

Liberals need to take the advice they routinely give to conservatives: that there are consequences to their divisive rhetoric, and that in…

— Gary Bauer

On my knees, I beg of you to turn away from the paths of violence and to return to the path of…

— Pope John Paul II

Homer, Hesiod, Pythagoras, Plato, and Cicero, just to name a few, all lived in pagan societies. Some of the greatest political and…

— Brendan Myers

I've spent my life living in rural America, some of it in blue state Vermont, some of it in red state upstate…

— Bill McKibben

The global financial crisis is a great opportunity to showcase and propagate both causal and moral institutional analysis. The crisis shows major…

— Thomas Pogge

A year ago Guyana became politically free and independent. She assumed the untrammeled right to make her own decisions on what ought…

— Forbes Burnham

All political movements are like this - we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our…

— Doris Lessing

Socialist thought owes its appeal to the young largely to its visionary character; the very courage to indulge in Utopian thought is…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Many people have written about the economic meaning of globalization; in One World Peter Singer explains its moral meaning. His position is…

— Michael Walzer

The very function of creativity, of the elaboration of the human condition only enlarges the human spirit and, I mean, as a…

— Wole Soyinka

And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups.

— Wendell Willkie

When men start talking about 'honor', there is sure to be trouble ahead.

— Barbara Mertz

The American way is to criticize and debate openly, not to accept unthinkingly the doings of government officials of this or any…

— Michael Parenti

Overpopulation is perhaps the biggest problem facing us, and immigration is part of that problem. It has to be addressed.

— David R. Brower

Ever since I've had any political awareness, I've felt either alone or part of a tiny minority.

— Noam Chomsky

I think that you have a situation where one political party, in specific, if you watched the Republican debate, it's all about…

— Juan Williams

My love is political. My body is political. I talk even when I don't speak.

— Indya Moore

A party is a political tool. If it's no longer useful, it should be crumpled up and thrown away.

— Shintaro Ishihara

I do see myself as an old-fashioned storyteller. But there's always a touch of the political in my plays.

— Lynn Nottage

Our democracy flourishes when people stand up for themselves and engage in the political process.

— Maggie Hassan

For me, poetry has no point in existing if it's not to be a prompt or aid to political and ethical change.

— John Kinsella

It's been encouraging to hear the pope talking about climate change and take it away from being a political issue to being…

— Joy Bryant

If dictatorship is the concentration of power, freedom consists in its diffusion.

— Lord Hailsham

Never in the history of the world has there been a situation so bad that the government can't make it worse.

— Henry Morgenthau, Jr

The trouble with government as it is, is that it doesn't represent the people. It controls them.

— John Lennon

Politicians cannot create jobs or wealth. Such is axiomatic to straight thinkers.

— Greg Perry