Political Quotes · Page 131

I don't approve of political jokes; I have seen too many of them get elected.

— Jon Stewart

I have no political ambitions whatsoever. My ambitions are all about what XL can become.

— Mike McGavick

I hate cowardice; I will have nothing to do with cowards or political nonsense.

— Swami Vivekananda

Women are very comfortable giving to charities or things they believe in, but not as much political givers.

— Ronna McDaniel

I hope we get to the bottom of the answer. It's what I'm interested to know.

— George W. Bush

I am not a political figure. The fact is I am a humanitarian figure and always will be.

— Princess Diana

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

— Brooks Atkinson

What can I do to help? I am asking my senator to support political action to end hunger in the greatest country…

— Martin Landau

Our political debates today are corrosive and not reflective of the belief that Abe Lincoln espoused back in his day: that we…

— Jon Huntsman, Jr

[T]he kingdom of God... is to be a political institution that shall hold sway over all the earth; to which all other…

— B. H. Roberts

The Congressional Budget Office is a reactionary socialist institution which does not believe in economic growth, does not believe in innovation, and…

— Newt Gingrich

Artists are political in the sense that they've subtracted themselves from the structure of the marketplace and are contributing something that's not…

— Rachel Kushner

The kind of poetry that interests me is intellectual and moral and political and sexual and sensual - all of that fermenting…

— Adrienne Rich

Open discussion of many major public questions has for some time now been taboo. We can't open our mouths without being denounced…

— Saul Bellow

Some comedians are silly or goofy or straight joke writers who avoid anything subversive or political. Others are drawn to it. The…

— Ted Alexandro

But I really resist categories – that naming is a closing down of meaning. Women's art, political art – those categorisations perpetuate…

— Barbara Kruger

The political vibe of late-'40s Hollywood through the mid-'50s is something we're seeing a lot of echoes of right now, and in…

— Ed Brubaker

One cannot make command decisions simply by assessing the tactical situation and going ahead with whatever course of action will do the…

— Joe Haldeman

We have become a nation ruled by fear. Since the end of the Second World War, various political leaders have fostered fear…

— Mike Gravel

It is clear that 'social Darwinism' and 'survival of the fittest' were intended by Obama to evoke feelings of fear and disgust.…

— George H. Smith

With the increasingly important role of intelligent machines in all phases of our lives--military, medical, economic and financial, political--it is odd to…

— Ray Kurzweil

You are the instruments that God is gonna use to bring about universal change, and that is why Barack has captured the…

— Louis Farrakhan

Politics is different than movies. Politics are controlled by leaders. Leaders of every country have different interests. And they try to explain…

— Hany Abu-Assad

Revisionist historians are about to get their hands on the Thatcher years, shes probably going to be looked at again because she…

— Jonathan Coe

On health care, virtually every political error that could be made was made.

— Sidney Blumenthal

Sanity is not statistical - Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad.

— Winston Smith

We will allow private and religious groups to compete to provide services in every federal, state and local social program.

— George W. Bush

He was one of the few political leaders I have ever met whose public speeches revealed more than his private conversations. [On…

— Gerald R. Ford

They worry one another like mastiffs, scrambling for rank and pay like apes for nuts.

— John Adams

One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.

— Anonymous

The best thing about this group of candidates is that only one of them can win.

— Will Rogers

Anytime you want to get into religious or political views, that can instantly polarize people.

— Harrison Barnes

Our flag is not just one of many political points of view. Rather, the flag is a symbol of our national unity.

— Adrian Cronauer

Another plague upon the land, as devastating as the locusts God loosed on the Egyptians, is 'Political Correctness.'

— Charlton Heston

What is frustrating people, me included, is that democratic action affects elections but what we get then from political leaders is greenwash.

— James Hansen

The Baltic countries are sovereign nations. They have the right to decide which military and political bloc they want to be a…

— Sergei Ivanov

The only organized political party with a Christian vision of morality is the Libertarian Party.

— Walter E. Williams

Persistence in a single view has never been regarded as a merit in political leaders.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time.

— Carly Fiorina

“Power isn't the big cars and bent slaves Power is your people in the streets as they drag you to prison.”

— Sapphire Belucci