Political Quotes · Page 136

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

— Aristotle

Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?

— Adlai Stevenson I

the rule of Nobody ... is what the political form known as bureaucracy truly is.

— Hannah Arendt

I do detest all offices - all, at least, that are held on a political tenure.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

I respect that my husband makes decisions he feels are sensible and intelligent... It's not my place to give him political advice.

— Louise Linton

The starship thing is really political action and reaction, the natural outgrowth of Volunteers.

— Paul Kantner

I'm very interested in politics, and I feel TV is a more political medium than film.

— Doug Liman

The political system is broken, the economy is broken and so is society. That is why people are so depressed about the…

— David Cameron

You cannot write about what people are really like without making a political adjudication. All our ideas of what human nature consists…

— Sally Rooney

[President Johnson] had the political will to say that having one in five Americans living in the kind of abject conditions their…

— Anna Quindlen

One might plausibly contend that Congress violates the spirit, if not the letter, of the constitutional doctrine of separation of powers when…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the…

— Anonymous

While women's suffrage has not brought about the political millennium which its fondest backers predicted, its effects on the whole have been…

— Jessie Daniel Ames

'The Museum of Innocence' is not about politics; it's a love story, but I think it's political in the sense that it…

— Orhan Pamuk

Particularly with schizophrenia you see a lot of concern that these people could escape and kill people, or they could threaten our…

— Jonathan Michel Metzl

We're led to believe everybody opposes it and disagrees with political correctness, but yet everybody's scared to death of it. So who…

— Rush Limbaugh

The recent past is full of diverse examples of writers - Mahfouz in Egypt, Pamuk in Turkey, and more interestingly, Pasternak in…

— Pankaj Mishra

Poetry is basically built out of what I think of as being a fairly political act at its core: "I'm not going…

— Ted Genoways

The United States, which has been called the home of the persecuted and the dispossessed, has been since its founding an asylum…

— Eileen Simpson

We see and realise that the political situation in the United States is influenced by those who have lost the elections but…

— Vladimir Putin

The Divine Comedy is a political poem and when you say poetry is not about - he's always quoted out of context,…

— W. S. Merwin

What I value most about Pastor Wright is not his day-to-day political advice. He's much more of a sounding board for me…

— Barack Obama

There is a political process which we are trying to achieve through what is called the Vienna Group. That involves the establishment…

— Adel al-Jubeir

All media work us over completely. They are so pervasive in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical, and social consequences…

— Marshall McLuhan

Sanitation should not be seen as a political tool, but should only be connected to patriotism (rashtrabhakti) and commitment to public health.

— Narendra Modi

My plea is for banishing the English language as a cultural usurper, as we successfully banished the political rule of the English…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Just because someone has a different political view or opinion than you doesn't make them a bad person.

— Maddie Marlow

Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police.

— Winston Churchill

Periods of cooperation between political parties shouldn't be taken for granted; they are a stunning human achievement.

— Paul Bloom

This is an area where North Carolina does excel. I have known more colorful North Carolina political figures than I have colorless…

— Jesse Helms

I have had a lot of adversaries in my political life, but no enemies that I can remember.

— Gerald R. Ford

Many things happened in the sixties, but the period is no more significant, better, or more 'political' than today. It's time to…

— Jerry Saltz

In Europe, anti-Americanism is much more a hobgoblin of the political, cultural, and religious elites.

— Jean Francois Revel

It's a very bad idea for scientific conclusions to be accepted because they fit with the political values of a group of…

— Philip Kitcher

“Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.”

— Otto von Bismarck

So my degree was in political science, which I think was - the closest I could come to marketing is politics.

— Steve Case

I love the sharpness and political tone of RoboCop and I think that such a film is now urgently needed.

— Jose Padilha

I found out that I was a Christian for revenue only and I could not bear the thought of that, it was…

— Mark Twain

My arrest in Egypt happened in 2002, and I was convicted to five years as a political prisoner.

— Maajid Nawaz

The secret of political bargaining is to look more strong than what you really are.

— Subhas Chandra Bose