Political Quotes · Page 149

There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains.

— Theodore Roosevelt

To the Calvinists, more than to any other class of men, the political liberties of Holland, England, and America are due.

— John Lothrop Motley

The Biden Administration has consistently prioritized their reckless leftwing political agenda to the detriment of our military readiness.

— Katie Britt

We must not allow anyone to use the IDF as a tool in political campaigns or as part of inflammatory statements by…

— Yoav Gallant

I was a political junkie, and it just exhausted me, and after Obama won, I just kind of unplugged from all of…

— Adam Scott

In my view, a political vision is not a grab-bag of discrete problems and solutions. It is the visionary anticipation of a…

— Roberto Unger

Everybody makes personal decisions that are right for them and if you're in political life, you're used to having those analyzed.

— Elizabeth Edwards

Political debates in the United States can be untethered from facts, but threats to life focus minds on reality.

— Tom Malinowski

We need to learn to work with political systems that are not perfect instead of taking the view: let's first fix the…

— Abhijit Banerjee

The first and most important thing is to remain free, free in each line you undertake, in your ideas and in your…

— Hans Hartung

Surely anyone who has ever been elected to public office understands that one commodity above all others, namely the trust and confidence…

— Hubert H. Humphrey

Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard…

— Albert Camus

I want people to make a lot more than $9. $9 is not enough. The problem is that if you can't do…

— Marco Rubio

If our nation is to rebuild opportunity for future generations, it will require our elected leaders to realize that their responsibility lies…

— Ami Bera

If you belonged to a political party or a social club that was tied to as much bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, violence, and…

— Bill Maher

The most important political task facing the out-of-power party - the Democrats for now - is creating a villain to run against.…

— Pat Sajak

As in forming a political society, each individual contributes some of his rights, in order that he may, from a common stock…

— John Dickinson

That is the true genius of America, a faith in the simple dreams of its people, the insistence on small miracles. That…

— Barack Obama

My party's supporters have seen how European political leaders are allowing asylum seekers and migrants to come to us and how they're…

— Geert Wilders

The power to determine the quantity of money... is too important, too pervasive, to be exercised by a few people, however public-spirited,…

— Milton Friedman

Since taking office, I've made it clear that the United States was prepared to begin a new chapter of engagement with the…

— Barack Obama

“A Party member is expected to have no private emotions and no respites from enthusiasm. He is supposed to live in a…

— George Orwell

States' rights, as our forefathers conceived it, was a protection of the right of the individual citizen. Those who preach most frequently…

— Robert Kennedy

It is true that traditional Christianity is losing some of its appeal among Americans, but that is a religious, not political, matter.…

— Jon Meacham

How stagnant and tepid the whole British political scene is now is just beyond belief.

— Irvine Welsh

The true measure of a city is its soul. This is the restless energy that doesn't wait for political leadership.

— Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Political reporters and political professionals rushed to judgment against Romney because we crave clear, unambiguous story lines.

— Ron Fournier

In political and social analysis, we still have not cut off the head of the king.

— Michel Foucault

I witnessed a lot of violence, and I found myself asking the question: Do you ever use violence to try to bring…

— Mairead Corrigan

I don't set out to write a political song. I am not one of those that feels compelled to write about what's…

— Stephen Stills

Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

— Edouard Herriot

No economic, political or military power can compare with the power of a change of mind

— Willis Harman

I grew up in the sort of cultural milieu that always regarded conversations about the political discourse as tremendously low-brow.

— Joseph Brodsky

It [Socialism] was a kind of political hockey played by big, gaunt, dyspeptic girls in pants.

— Mary McCarthy

I never met a politician who didn't want to be a guitar player in a rock band. I've got the opportunity to…

— Billy Bragg

At its grandest, political correctness is an attempt to accelerate evolution.

— Martin Amis

In the poetry of immigrants, nostalgia is as common as confetti at parades or platitudes at political conventions.

— Amitava Kumar

All political debates, from tax policy to abortion, draw on moral arguments that rest on religious premises.

— Michael J. Knowles

How do you know if you don't measure if you have a system that simply suckles kids through?

— George W. Bush

I think political correctness really does help us when it serves us but it doesn't help us when it silences us.

— Margaret Cho