Political Quotes · Page 142

I'm a musical political, I tend to stick to what I see happening outside my front door.

— Sixto Rodriguez

The guiding principle of ruling elites was--and still is: When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed.

— Michael Pare

My grandfather, in 1848, had fled from Germany to find political freedom in the United States.

— Emanuel Celler

I'm not sure I had a political career for the future anyway. I'm not sure that politics was what I wanted to…

— John Edwards

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

— Anais Nin

A landscape image cuts across all political and national boundaries, it transcends the constraints of language and culture.

— Charlie Waite

I will always remember and we must all remember that Democrats are our political rivals, not our enemies, and they deserve our…

— Ken Mehlman

The World Development Movement, to take just one example, is doing good work. Some political parties are, too.

— Susan George

We've seen filibusters to block judicial nominations, jobs bills, political transparency, ending Big Oil subsidies - you name it, there's been a…

— Elizabeth Warren

Mike Huckabee said he's the only person who has fought the Clinton political machine and won. As opposed to Democratic candidate Bernie…

— Jimmy Fallon

To have internal peace and stability and economic development, it is important to have good relations with the political parties that we…

— Thein Sein

In human history who hold the reigns of political power, and there are some women who were very much a team player…

— Jay Nordlinger

Sunstein said government agents ‘might enter chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups and attempt to undermine percolating conspiracy theories…

— Cass Sunstein

Revolutions and revolutionary wars are inevitable in class society, and without them it is impossible to accomplish any leap in social development…

— Mao Zedong

If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it…

— Meg Greenfield

The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy. If you want to go towards democracy,…

— Bashar al-Assad

If you consider that the gender roles are just political, then what you come to see is that the full circle of…

— Gloria Steinem

No principle, that is possible to be named, can be more self-evidently false than this; or more self-evidently fatal to all political…

— Lysander Spooner

Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint - Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The…

— John F. Kennedy

Predatory capitalism created a complex industrial system and an advanced technology; it permitted a considerable extension of democratic practice and fostered certain…

— Noam Chomsky

The profound political changes we need in order to heal our planet will not come about through fragmented problem solving or intellectual…

— Petra Kelly

Not only our political system is broken, but how we do business and have public discourse with one another. The system in…

— Isaiah Washington

I am sorry to be so blunt, but I do not see much ambiguity here. [Barack] Obama was late to affirm the…

— Judith Butler

Famines are easy to prevent if there is a serious effort to do so, and a democratic government, facing elections and criticisms…

— Amartya Sen

Don't sacrifice your political convictions for the convenience of the hour.

— Edward Kennedy

I'm not giving up politics entirely - I'm just giving up leadership of a political party.

— Nigel Farage

A political satirist's job is to draw blood. I'm not so much interested in politics as I am in overthrowing the government.

— Mort Sahl

Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted…

— David S. Broder

The United States has overstepped its borders in all spheres - economic, political and humanitarian - and has imposed itself on other…

— Vladimir Putin

There is an infinity of political errors which, being once adopted, become principles.

— Guillaume Thomas Francois Raynal

Anyone who does not understand the utter cynicism of politics does not understand politics.

— Thomas Sowell

“My comments are historical in nature and are not overtly political, although politics are directly responsible for the outcome of History.”

— Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba

The government competes in the private sector the way an alligator competes with a duck.

— Mike Pence

If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life and history is depressing.

— Anselm Kiefer

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree-very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.

— Stanley Baldwin

Historically, gold has always been a safe haven against inflation and a safe haven in times of political instability.

— John Paulson

This is what I'm good at. I like meeting people, my fellow citizens, I like interfacing with them.

— George W. Bush

I think that if everybody changed and tried to make their music political, it'd be kind of a bummer.

— Jack Johnson

The average political poem - especially the kind that wears this label all too proudly - is both dull and full of…

— Andre Naffis-Sahely