Political Quotes · Page 140

Politicians are frightened to death of people who actually believe in liberty.

— Neal Boortz

The political system loves the extremes, it doesn't so much show a lot love for the moderates.

— Claire McCaskill

The trouble with radicals is that they only read radical literature, and the trouble with conservatives is that they don't read anything

— Thomas Nixon Carver

Everywhere in the world there are tensions - economic, political, religious. So we need chocolate.

— Alain Ducasse

I think leadership of any kind requires trust and transparency and voters should demand no less from their political leadership in government.

— Carly Fiorina

I have no political ambitions; never want to be an MP or MLA or a Rajya Sabha member.

— Jeetendra

If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.

— Steven Pinker

I am politically incorrect, that's true. Political correctness to me is just intellectual terrorism. I find that really scary, and I won't…

— Mel Gibson

Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn't been a satirist or a political satirist who's done that. So, that really was…

— Al Franken

Take all your dukes and marquesses and earls and viscounts, pack them into one chamber, call it the House of Lords to…

— Charles Krauthammer

If our government has a policy, any political subdivision, that limits or restricts the enforcement of our immigration laws, we will sue…

— Russell Pearce

I think that if the political and social movement groups and organizations that operate in this country today had the same kind…

— John Trudell

All men will commence in their present rank and promotion will be open to all men alike, without any distinctions or qualifications,…

— John Amery

I've been a witness to unfairness in society all my life. To the conditions under which my mother worked all her life,…

— Patrick Stewart

Political consultants are pugilists, masters in the dark art of negativity. Which is why it's surprising to hear Democrats such as Steve…

— Ron Fournier

The political structure in different countries has different origins, different developments. Something which suits one country extremely well would perhaps fail completely…

— Hermann Goring

For all our conceits about being the center of the universe, we live in a routine planet of a humdrum star stuck…

— Carl Sagan

Economics now drives politics. This gives us a system in which the relationship between power and politics is no longer fused. Power…

— Henry Giroux

In fact, after Donald Trump won, some of the relief of finishing record was to turn off all the politics for a…

— Aaron Dessner

We've seen a shift where people were often initially reluctant to call things terrorism until they knew for sure. And now they…

— Daniel Byman

Usually I just let my songs do the talking. As a matter of fact I have long had an aversion to celebrities…

— John Fogerty

I react pragmatically. Where the market works, I'm for that. Where the government is necessary, I'm for that. I'm deeply suspicious of…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

An optimist is somebody who thinks our various political and social systems, schools and churches, support groups and Boy Scout troops, jury…

— Jack McDevitt

I may have my personal political thing, but we never wanted it to stain the show.

— Matt Stone

For the average person walking down a dark street late at night, a promise from a politician is worth far less than…

— James Bovard

Because of my political views, I've been targeted as a lightning rod, someone who's too far out there.

— John Turner

The strongest continuous thread in America's political tradition is skepticism about government.

— George Will

With political means and always trying to work for political settlements and this is what I'm going to continue to work on…

— Angela Merkel

Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out; political passions, never.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

“Our politicians always show lame excuse to defend their cripple decisions.”

— Munia Khan

Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit he was a first-rate political economist.

— George Bernard Shaw

Show me a supposedly 'unfixable' problem in Washington, and I'll show you the political corruption standing in the way.

— Kirsten Gillibrand

The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

— Aristotle

'Zakhm' has no political agenda. But, it certainly says things as they are.

— Mahesh Bhatt

To debate political objectives, views, and goals is the most American thing conceivable.

— Lou Reed

Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this . . .

— Alice Duer Miller

In political science, public support doesn't have a reverse gear. It always goes forward.

— Amit Shah

Politicians generally do the right thing only when all other options are exhausted.

— Daniel J. Mitchell

Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.

— Tony Snow