Political Quotes · Page 133

My top priority for 2012 will be to make a renewed push for women's economic empowerment and political participation.

— Michelle Bachelet

I lived as best I could, and then I died. Be careful where you step: the grave is wide.

— Michael R. Burch

What's the meaning of "giornalista professionista"? I have always thought a professional to be a good prostitute!

— William C. Brown

If tolerance and kindness and acceptance and love are political, then I guess I am political.

— Karen Fairchild

The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.

— Anonymous

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain't going.

— Abbie Hoffman

I almost never listen to radio or watch political talk shows, especially if I happen to be on them.

— Bret Stephens

A political and economic system that only works for a small group at the top is a system that needs to change.

— Gavin Esler

I think all things are political... How women are portrayed - that's a big thing for me. What is this role trying…

— Maxine Peake

It is easy to criticize, particularly in a political season. But to lead is something altogether different. The leader must live in…

— Norm Coleman

It will not just be conservatives or liberals, Republicans or Democrats, people of faith or unbelievers that restore America. It will be…

— Chuck Baldwin

We've clearly seen that Tea Party Republicans are willing to take our economy hostage just to score political points, but I'm not…

— Martin Heinrich

Perhaps the best motivation for going to Mars is political. It is obvious that no single nation currently has either the will…

— Paul Davies

The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according…

— P. J. O'Rourke

So many of the schools are just politically correct mirrors of each other. If you go to this school versus that school,…

— Jerry Falwell, Jr

Women leading big corporations or assuming various important social and political roles is still considered newsworthy, which clearly shows the need to…

— Guler Sabanci

Much of the point of individual action is really to communicate with other people and with political leaders and to demonstrate to…

— Dale Jamieson

The most important quote about poetry and politics that I know is from a different situationist, Guy Debord. He was locked in…

— Joshua Clover

I have a very awesome seat in the house every time I play. When the lights come up, and the sound turns…

— Jason Mraz

“The space between the private and the public is the nexus of the personal and the social, if not political. It’s where…

— John Capecci and Timothy Cage

“I go back to the union man and say, “Sir, this is a house of God, not a proper place for a…

— Jerry Ash

The real causes of terrorism are not poverty and oppression per se, but rather the bankruptcy of materialist ideologies, like Neo-Conservatism, which…

— Robert Dickson Crane

Political [or individual] rights do not exist because they have been legally set down on a piece of paper, but only when…

— Rudolf Rocker

I think the sign of complacency in the stock market is when people don't worry. At the moment, everyone worries about everything.…

— Martin Gilbert

As a political independent, I would gladly vote for any political party dedicated to limited government and entrepreneurship.

— Arthur C. Brooks

The clarification of our political ideas insensibly changes into and becomes indistinguishable from the history of political ideas.

— Leo Strauss

It is clear from Salman Rushdie's writing that politics and literature cannot be separated. Everything is political.

— Amitava Kumar

Inspiration is an underexamined part of political life and presidential leadership.

— George Packer

I would hope to inspire in my listeners a feeling of freedom - of speech, thought and political activity.

— John Hall

Faction is to party what the superlative is to the positive. Party is a political evil, and faction is the worst of…

— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

The Norwegian response to violence is more democracy, more openness and greater political participation,

— Jens Stoltenberg

I am not entering politics to be another Knesset member. If I enter the political arena I want to be prime minister.…

— Ami Ayalon

Don't you get the idea I'm one of those goddam radicals. Don't get the idea I'm knocking the American system.

— Al Capone

The judiciary must be strengthened and released from political interference.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Political parties usually try to lay low or provide effective responses to the opposite party's convention.

— Mollie Hemingway

Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could.

— Lord Mountbatten

Herein indeed consists the excellence of the English government, that all parts of it form a mutual check upon each other.

— William Blackstone

I never imagined in my life that I will fight elections or form a political party.

— Arvind Kejriwal

Acting is a business and a political act and a craft, but I also feel like it's a service - specifically, for…

— Adam Driver

Those who depend on television as their primary information source are condemned to … A form of political illiteracy.

— Bill Kraus