Political Quotes · Page 145

I see ethical considerations as having a certain priority in our interactions - passing judgment on our political and legal processes.

— John Kleinig

I feel so Scottish when I go abroad, and I'm so proud of it, but for me, it's not a political statement…

— Michelle Gomez

This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve.

— George W. Bush

People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war.

— George McGovern

Majority of the African countries are now enjoying stable governance. Before you talk about economic growth, political stability is key.

— Goodluck Jonathan

I like that Ben & Jerry's is willing to speak out about social and political issues that aren't always safe - but…

— Jerry Greenfield

We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.

— Kofi Annan

Free competition exists inside shelters of law, custom, insurance, political approval, and carefully protected status.

— Mason Cooley

In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing…

— Billie Joe Armstrong

You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right,…

— Nick Clegg

While the left will attempt to drown out Trump's political accomplishments with unfounded allegations of Russian collusion, the voters who made Trump…

— Kayleigh McEnany

I want to be honest about the world that we live in, and sometimes my political persuasions come through in my work.…

— Alexander McQueen

I use to watch like maybe three or four movies, five days out of the week. I was a movie buff, but…

— Michelle Rodriguez

If your political views define who you are as a human, and you can't stand to have friends that have different views…

— Maddie Marlow

The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the president, it should be helping us to produce smarter…

— Dick Gephardt

A narrative that branded Africa as little more than an economic, political and social basket case was not likely to provide the…

— Mo Ibrahim

What we argue in the piece is that the headscarf has become a political symbol for an ideology of Islam that is…

— Asra Nomani

That's why people are standing up again to fight the Keystone pipeline in Nebraska and South Dakota and Montana. Everyone is well…

— Bill McKibben

M. Mabeuf’s political opinion was a passionate fondness for plants, and a still greater one for books. He had, like everybody else,…

— Victor Hugo

We take it for granted that Jesus was not interested in political life: his mission was purely religious. Indeed we have witnessed…

— Gustavo Gutiérrez

I was inspired by the androgyny of Yohji Yamanoto's designs to translate the clothing's dualities onto screen and image. I was playing…

— Collier Schorr

“[T]he useful idiots, the leftists who are idealistically believing in the beauty of the Soviet socialist or Communist or whatever system, when…

— Yuri Bezmenov

The Stoic discipline of action, which is connected to the virtue of justice, says that we ought to treat others fairly and…

— Massimo Pigliucci

[Barack] Obama can draw lines for himself and his country, not for other countries. We have our red lines, like our sovereignty,…

— Bashar al-Assad

Israeli Arabs have more political rights than any other Arabs in the Middle East, including their compatriots in the Palestinian Authority.

— Jack Schwartz

Peace is an extension of war by political means. Plenty of elbow-room is pleasanter -- and much safer.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Democracy, like liberty, justice and other social and political rights, is not "given", it is earned through courage, resolution and sacrifice.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Gold will not always get you good soldiers, but good soldiers can get you gold.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Funny that all of Nixon's crimes - anonymous campaign cash, wiretapping, undeclared wars - are all legal now. Discuss.

— Bill Maher

Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Sistani’s office refuses the replacement of the law because it is not an Iraqi demand but it is a political demand to…

— Ali al-Sistani

The American way is to criticize and debate openly, not to accept unthinkingly the doings of government officials of this or any…

— Michael Parenti

When men start talking about 'honor', there is sure to be trouble ahead.

— Barbara Mertz

And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups.

— Wendell Willkie

My love is political. My body is political. I talk even when I don't speak.

— Indya Moore

I think that you have a situation where one political party, in specific, if you watched the Republican debate, it's all about…

— Juan Williams

Ever since I've had any political awareness, I've felt either alone or part of a tiny minority.

— Noam Chomsky

Overpopulation is perhaps the biggest problem facing us, and immigration is part of that problem. It has to be addressed.

— David R. Brower

Our democracy flourishes when people stand up for themselves and engage in the political process.

— Maggie Hassan

I do see myself as an old-fashioned storyteller. But there's always a touch of the political in my plays.

— Lynn Nottage