Political Quotes · Page 147

When people don't like my politics, I am happy to have a political discussion with them.

— Meghan McCain

Part of me wanted to get a graduate degree in political science. Had I done that, I suppose I would have become…

— Samuel Alito

The five million people who watch cable news are the political nation, the people who really care.

— David Frum

I always like to go to Washington D.C. It gives me a chance to visit my money.

— Bob Hope

Political matters are developing so fast that we must not let a single thing slip without use.

— Victoria Woodhull

The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill ... its purpose is to reach a political goal,

— Abu Abbas

Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil...

— Abraham Lincoln

Together, we will reclaim America's schools, before ignorance and apathy claim more young lives.

— George W. Bush

The term religious cleansing is an accurate and effective way of expressing the current hostility and bigotry toward all civic expressions of…

— Jay Sekulow

In fairness, Latin America's elected civilian leaders have made progress in some areas. They have brought their countries back to international respectability,…

— Stephen Kinzer

I made the decision that my contribution needed to be more musical than political. My music was enough, politically. Art matters. Art…

— Kathleen Hanna

America is destined to be peopled by one nation, speaking one language, professing one general system of religious and political principles, and…

— John Adams

You really have to try hard to create space and, at least for a time, stop the political world from rushing in.…

— George Osborne

The political truths declared in that solemn manner acquire by degrees the character of fundamental maxims of free Government, and as they…

— James Madison

While the struggle for religious liberty had proceeded without large-scale bloodshed in New England and elsewhere in the United States, the struggle…

— Paul Harris

Governments should encourage and facilitate the teaching of history, but one does not want them to be able to dictate, for political…

— Linda Colley

The political elite in Russia don't want domestic reform, they aren't ready for it. As such, they welcome an external threat. You…

— Sergey Karaganov

Big ideas, big ambitious projects need to be embedded within culture at a level deeper than the political winds. It needs to…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

But in the years since the neoliberal project really has been stripped down to what was always its essence: not an economic…

— David Graeber

Anytime that knowledge and a version of the truth are considered to be absolute, fundamentalism is the result, whether the arena is…

— Anonymous

There is something about important stories that is not just the message, but also the way that message is conveyed, the arrangement…

— Chinua Achebe

My main contribution was to demolish the myths that India couldn't economically afford nuclear weapons. Of course I made these political arguments…

— Subramanian Swamy

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold was the work of a wayward imagination brought to the end of its tether…

— John le Carre

The US has developed two coordinate governing classes: the one, called 'business,' building cities, manufacturing and distributing goods, and holding complete and…

— Thurman Arnold

I'm in the perfect position. It's a sports position and a political position where I can help better the lives of athletes…

— Angela Ruggiero

Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Well socialism is exactly the reverse.

— Len Deighton

Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.

— Harold Washington

I am different than some people would like me to be. I just don't buy into that the personal can be political.

— Kevin Spacey

NATO member states vary dramatically in their capability and in their political steadfastness.

— Donald Rumsfeld

If you're trained as a proper political consultant, you should be able to undertake your profession no matter who the client is.

— Brittany Kaiser

I cannot allow state government to continue to be consumed by this game of political 'gotcha.'

— Ernie Fletcher

Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous consciousness of honor.

— Thomas Paine

Boris Johnson 'doesn't do detail.' It is a criticism that has dogged his political and journalistic career.

— Julia Hartley-Brewer

As a political artist, I think you have to learn how to create art, no matter what your ideology is.

— Amiri Baraka

“Democracy is supposed to be ‘of the people, by the people and for the people’. Capitalism is ‘of the capitalist, for the…

— Jerry Ash

Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.

— Hannah Arendt

Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?

— Auguste Comte

I don't like the notion that artists have a responsibility to be political.

— Ezra Furman

If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.

— William Tecumseh Sherman

To put it bluntly, American political opportunities are heavily loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.

— Richard Dawkins