Political Quotes · Page 148

For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.

— Andrew Young

The essential thing is the formation of the political will of the nation: that is the starting point for political action.

— Adolf Hitler

The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television.

— Dick Morris

Obama's victory in November 2008 was a historic political accomplishment.

— John Podhoretz

Because countries often have differing political and economic systems, agreements are needed to protect those invested in trade.

— David Suzuki

It's not for me or another European to speak about domestic political choices or decisions in the U.S.

— Federica Mogherini

“They were Republicans, Nixon Republicans, and so didn't subscribe to the notion that laws are supposed to apply to all people equally.”

— Bill Bryson

Journalism consists in buying white paper at two cents a pound and selling it at ten cents a pound.

— Charles A. Dana

Peoples nurtured on freedom and self-government judge any other form of polity to be deformed and unnatural. Those who are used to…

— Michel de Montaigne

The Government, being resolved to undertake the political and moral purification of our public life, are creating and securing the conditions necessary…

— Adolf Hitler

If 30 Australians drowned in Sydney Harbour, it would be a national tragedy. But when 30 or more refugees drown off the…

— Richard Flanagan

Because my main concern is the Tibetan Buddhist culture, not just political independence, I cannot seek self-rule for central Tibet and exclude…

— Dalai Lama

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will…

— Jimmy Carter

In designing for the first lady, I tried to sort of be in her shoes, but I didn't really look at her…

— Jason Wu

The fundamental question is: 'Will I be a successful president when it comes to foreign policy?' I will be, but until I'm…

— George W. Bush

Oil depletion and climate change will create an entirely new context in which political struggles will be played out. Within that context,…

— Richard Heinberg

Political correctness is a concept invented by hard-rightwing forces to defend their right to be racist, to treat women in a degrading…

— Clare Short

I believe we are going to have to prepare ourselves for the difficult and patient task of outgrowing rigid and intransigent nationalism,…

— Thomas Merton

Highly intelligent and well-informed people disagree on every political issue. Therefore, intelligence and knowledge are useless for making decisions, because if any…

— Scott Adams

There is one great truth in western politics that I have been able to see, and that is this: The more left…

— Derek R. Audette

I will never say, 'support the troops.' I don't believe in the validity of that statement. People say, 'I don't support the…

— Thomas Naughton

“Rights holders, seeing how unpopular their ideas were, headed down a darker path; rather than give up on government help for such…

— Nate Anderson

Elections in India are not contests between personalities. They are ultimately battles involving political parties; promises and pledges that political parties make;…

— Jairam Ramesh

The situation in Turkey is extremely troubling. A panic-stricken regime, desperate to divide the Kurdish population from non-Kurds because it feared the…

— Tariq Ali

“What would you do if I told you that corporations and corporate controlled governments invest heavily in corrupted science?”

— Steven Magee

Ground Zero mosque supporters, doesn't it stab you in the heart, as it does ours, throughout the heartland? Peaceful Muslims, please refudiate.

— Sarah Palin

The flag is a flag of liberty of opinion as well as of political liberty.

— Woodrow Wilson

Abortion doesn't belong in the political arena. It's a private right, like many other rights concerning the family.

— Bella Abzug

Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal.

— Warren Farrell

The nation was not founded by habitual groupthinkers. But it stands a fair chance of being destroyed by them.

— Barbara Ehrenreich

The media and their journalists are merely megaphones for stupidity, the verb par excellence.

— William C. Brown

I feel I'm two people: I have my interest in acting and I have a lot of other political interests I'd like…

— Alec Baldwin

The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone.

— William Beveridge

Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia.

— Paul Wellstone

In some ways, political decency is a sign of a healthy democracy, but in other ways, it is the cause of it.

— Raja Krishnamoorthi

I wish I were better at observational or political or social commentary, and I'm just not.

— Taylor Tomlinson

The most powerful political voices are those with a different way of seeing and processing the world and the sounds that emanate…

— Saul Williams

If the reader looks, I think he will find plenty of moral and political ideas in my stories.

— Italo Calvino

If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you're half-way to a dictatorship.

— Clement Attlee

The Democratic Party is now a political mechanism having a genuine political principle: national socialism.

— Rose Wilder Lane