Political Quotes · Page 111

Together, we will reclaim America's schools, before ignorance and apathy claim more young lives.

— George W. Bush

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree-very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.

— Stanley Baldwin

The government competes in the private sector the way an alligator competes with a duck.

— Mike Pence

If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life and history is depressing.

— Anselm Kiefer

Historically, gold has always been a safe haven against inflation and a safe haven in times of political instability.

— John Paulson

This is what I'm good at. I like meeting people, my fellow citizens, I like interfacing with them.

— George W. Bush

I think that if everybody changed and tried to make their music political, it'd be kind of a bummer.

— Jack Johnson

We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, affliction, or infamy. We kill when, because it is easier, we countenance, or…

— Hermann Hesse

The problem, gentlemen, is that Obama is right: The promise of upward mobility is dying in America, and no amount of political…

— Ron Fournier

It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider…

— Anonymous

Mudslinging - In politics, anything bad the opponent says about our candidate; in contrast, when our candidate does this, it is called…

— Richard Turner

Some African leaders actually dare to suggest that democracy is a concept alien to traditional African society. This is one of the…

— Wole Soyinka

If man is not made in the image of God, nothing then stands in the way of inhumanity. There is no good…

— Francis Schaeffer

Any political system can commit mistakes and any state can commit mistakes. What is most important is to acknowledge these mistakes and…

— Hosni Mubarak

It's usually pointed out that women are not fit for political power, and ought not to be trusted with a vote because…

— George Bernard Shaw

Incrementalism: In the first generation, the goal of the movement was wholesale social and cultural transformation. Small, incremental victories were too little…

— Kenneth D. Wald

The point of asylum is not to declare to the world what country you think is the pinnacle of civilization. The point…

— Glenn Greenwald

Christian love draws no distinction between one enemy and another, except that the more bitter our enemy's hatred, the greater his need…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

This is what oligarchy looks like: Today, the top one-tenth of 1 percent owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90…

— Bernie Sanders

From the fact of general well-being came the new position of the poor. They were now in most communities a minority. The…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

This fear of criticism displayed by the advocates of freedom of criticism cannot be attributed solely to craftiness. No, the majority of…

— Vladimir Lenin

The discovery of electrical waves... has had a profound influence on civilization; it has been instrumental in providing the methods which may…

— Joseph John Thomson

Demand that your government pays more attention. It's immoral that people in Africa die like flies of diseases that no one dies…

— William J. Clinton

I think you can't demonize somebody that's on the other side of the political spectrum, or you can't generalize about them.

— Bruce Springsteen

The average political poem - especially the kind that wears this label all too proudly - is both dull and full of…

— Andre Naffis-Sahely

We don't ever want to be this political band. We're just a bunch of dudes.

— Matthew Ramsey

In the Trump language, words change their meaning day by day depending on his own political needs.

— E. J. Dionne

The political and substantive reality is that the agenda has to change. I don't think they have any choice.

— Leon Panetta

There is no safe political refuge for those afraid to take responsibility for their own lives.

— James Bovard

I want my pictures to cut through political abstractions... and make a connection on a human level.

— James Nachtwey

Political correctness means nothing to me. Nothing. It's the new Puritanism, darling. Preventing us from expressing ourselves.

— Barry Humphries

Till the enemy's weakness is known , he should be kept on friendly terms.

— Chanakya

Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns.

— Jeff Goodell

Politics must not be separated from religious values; religion must not be separated from political responsibility.

— Joel Hunter

When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that…

— Frederic Bastiat

There is no moral difference between a Stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. They both kill innocent people for political reasons.

— Tony Benn

I will not be a Democrat or a Republican. They are the problem, not the solution. We need to abolish political parties…

— Jesse Ventura

It's very much the currency of discourse on social media where political disagreements very quickly become very personalised.

— Nicola Sturgeon

All the governments just want to have more power when it comes to economic espionage, diplomatic manipulation and political influence.

— Edward Snowden