Political Quotes · Page 117

I think if I were living in a utopian world, then it wouldn't be political commentary; it would be about daffodils.

— Emily Haines

That's Washington. That's the place where you find people getting ready to jump out of the foxholes before the first shot is…

— George W. Bush

Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Silence in the face of atrocity is not neutrality; silence in the face of atrocity is acquiescence.

— Samantha Power

Far too often in the political realm, we demonize success; we demagogue against it. What we should be doing is incentivizing success.

— Ron Johnson

Well, killing me makes no sense because Georgia already has a Western-educated political class.

— Anonymous

Hip-hop music has done a very good job of maintaining the political context, where they stand and not giving a sh-t what…

— Conor Oberst

From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history.

— Marco Rubio

The United States is such a potent political, cultural, and economic model in the evocation of the contemporary world, that to come…

— Bruno Dumont

Revolution: Political movement which gets many people´s hopes up, let´s even more people down, makes almost everybody uncomfortable, and a few, extraordinarily…

— Adolfo Bioy Casares

I'm just not political. I have opinions, but there's nothing about the process that has ever interested me. I'm 22, and this…

— Jenna Bush

I believed that the numbers and processes of modern campaigning that revolve around the meticulous use of data would matter in 2016.…

— Rick Wilson

Catholic schools carry out a great mission, to serve God by building knowledge and character... By teaching the word of God, you…

— George W. Bush

It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in…

— Auberon Waugh

'Game of Thrones' isn't all about magic - it's way more about political scheming and family tensions - but to be a…

— Isaac Hempstead-Wright

Among the many factors that make a return to halcyon days of the first decades of the postwar era virtually impossible is…

— Robert Gilpin

And judging what is appropriate or not appropriate for a country, I think it is important in particular in judging what is…

— Lucas Papademos

One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an…

— Joseph Story

In times of crisis what has made America amazing has been the fact that, throughout our history, throughout the more than 200…

— Scott Walker

At times I think the truest image of God today is a black inner-city grandmother in the United States or a mother…

— Jim Wallis

Canada emerged as a political entity with boundaries largely determined by the fur trade. These boundaries included a vast north temperate land…

— Harold Innis

We've tended in our cosmologies to make things familiar. Despite all our best efforts, we've not been very inventive. In the West,…

— Carl Sagan

From the very beginning, I said there are two tracks of reform: there's the political and the technical. I don't believe the…

— Edward Snowden

Crime in the city streets is more than a political issue. It's a too rampant fact… In Indianapolis they have come up…

— Malcolm Forbes

It's true that the Federal Reserve faces a lot of political pressure and is unpopular in many circles.

— Ben Bernanke

I'm president of the Senate. I'm not a neophyte when it comes to understanding political alignments and misalignments.

— Colleen Hanabusa

Douglas Carswell accused all political parties of "deliberately cultivating the impression" that there would be a referendum.

— Douglas Carswell

I have never really thought that the Left was much in 'array' as far as political purposes were concerned.

— Noam Chomsky

The discussion of derivatives in the political world has become a zero sum game.

— Jim Himes

Other Republican candidates may retort to personal attacks and negative ads.

— George W. Bush

I want to have a media platform that is an honest broker and not just a mouthpiece for a political party.

— David Brock

We did not anticipate the political fallout from it. We definitely didn't need it and we paid it back the first day…

— Jamie Dimon

It is now, more than ever, necessary that political leaders be outstanding for honesty, integrity and commitment to the common good.

— Pope Francis

There are nutters across every political and religious spectrum; it goes without saying.

— Douglas Murray

An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Now that I'm a political pundit, I have the ability to influence people.

— Jonathan Krohn

The distemper of which, as a community, we are sick, should be considered rather as a moral than a political malady.

— William Wilberforce

Laura and I really don't realize how bright our children is sometimes until we get an objective analysis.

— George W. Bush

The purpose of establishing different houses of legislation is to introduce the influence of different interests or different principles.

— Thomas Jefferson

Unemployment is down, confidence is up, DOW 5,000 above Bush - or as Republicans put it, let's talk about gay people and abortion!

— Bill Maher