Political Quotes · Page 138

Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow.

— Tony Abbott

Experience has already shown that the impeachment the Constitution has provided is not even a scarecrow.

— Thomas Jefferson

Today, I think, the state of philosophizing about democracy is very healthy. It bridges political science and philosophy, as it should.

— Martha C. Nussbaum

At EMILY's List, we're in the business of expanding the political power of women.

— Ellen Malcolm

There is no surer method of economizing and saving money than in the reduction of the number of officials.

— Winston Churchill

The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them.

— Lenny Bruce

Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere.

— Benito Mussolini

Fatah is a political party and movement, whose chairman is Mahmoud Abbas.

— Elliott Abrams

I believe what Martin Luther King Jr. believed. You remember what the title of the March on Washington was? "Jobs and Freedom."…

— Bernie Sanders

Everyone his own cinematographer. His own stream-of-consciousness e-mail poet. His own nightclub DJ. His own political columnist. His own biographer of his…

— Walter Kirn

Climate change has taken on political dimensions. That's odd because I don't see people choosing sides over E=Mc2 or other fundamental facts…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

If only Brexit would go away. It sucks the political oxygen away from the issues we should all be discussing: like low…

— Owen Jones

For someone like me who, as a kid, walked to school muttering little political speeches to myself, it was irresistible to finally…

— Michael Ignatieff

What I find most appalling is the Senate calls it a qualified blind trust when it's not blind. Since the Senate says…

— Kathleen Clark

In 1928, radio networks like the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) and Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) extended nationwide - any major political address…

— Joseph Cummins

All restraints upon man's natural liberty, not necessary for the simple maintenance of justice, are of the nature of slavery, and differ…

— Lysander Spooner

"Masters of War" [of Bob Dylan] wasn't peacenik, anti-war stuff. With its minor key and uncompromising final lines ("And I hope that…

— Jay Michaelson

Community connectedness is not just about warm fuzzy tales of civic triumph. In measurable and well-documented ways, social capital makes an enormous…

— Robert D. Putnam

For those who fancy that government's projects are uniquely important, or for those who imagine that holding government office makes someone unusually…

— Donald J. Boudreaux

But veteran lawmakers torn apart by PTSD don't have a choice about being Exhibit A in the case against Washington politics. When…

— Leon Kass

Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the…

— Oscar Wilde

You know, Bernie [Sanders] is - he is a team player. I think he's on the wrong team, perhaps because he's been…

— Jill Stein

Both President Kennedy and President Reagan were roundly criticized by parts of the foreign policy establishment that felt they were being weak…

— Barack Obama

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there…

— W. H. Murray

I know Eric Schmidt, and he has different political views from mine. But I think he's a terrific guy.

— Julian Robertson

If there was a university degree for greed, you cunts would all get first-class honours.

— Paul Keating

Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.

— Thomas Jefferson

Because of who I am, and how open I am, there's something inherently political about just writing love songs.

— Rostam Batmanglij

In some states, the population is pretty low and if 5,000 kids vote, they could completely change the political atmosphere.

— Steve Miller

I would always consider myself to be political with a small "p," although it makes me mad when people say politics should…

— Thea Gilmore

“far too many politicians suffer from foot and mouth disease; they always put a foot in their mouths”

— rassool jibraeel snyman

I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men of our time.

— Albert Einstein

No matter what the characters you play, you have to find the differences in them, especially when you are doing a political…

— Jessica Chastain

I think we need not only to eliminate the tollbooth to the middle class, I think we should knock down the tollbooth.

— George W. Bush

Justin Trudeau and the Liberals have created an environment that has undermined our institutions for political gains.

— Leslyn Lewis

Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.

— Franklin Pierce

We have a lot of politicians who have really small brains and really big hearts.

— Rand Paul

My sensibility has never been political. The things I find funny are generally apolitical.

— Tim Dillon

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The political satirist usually votes against their own interests, but the bottom line is that it doesn't really matter.

— Lizz Winstead