Political Quotes · Page 151

I have been attacked in Turkey more for my interviews than for my books. Political polemicists and columnists do not read novels…

— Orhan Pamuk

What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried

— Abraham Lincoln

In an age of political correctness, even the most apparent gender assertions are dismissed as ignorance.

— Sean Evans

Political correctness is driving machismo underground and recalling effeminacy from exile.

— Mason Cooley

Let us wage a moral and political war against war itself, so that we can cut military spending and use that money…

— Bernie Sanders

Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the…

— Edmund Burke

I'm not a political person, and their ambitions are not mine. They want power. I don't want power.

— Elie Wiesel

Political analysts tend to overinterpret the results of isolated elections.

— Jacob Weisberg

I will be the mayor for every New Yorker, whether you voted for me, for Governor Cuomo, or felt too disillusioned by…

— Zohran Mamdani

Political freedom is neither easy nor automatic, neither pleasant nor secure. It is the responsibility of the individual for the decisions of…

— Peter Drucker

We have received no single argument in favour of this document except political pressure. No link has been established between carbon dioxide…

— Andrey Illarionov

Donald Trump begins his political career in birtherism. That idea is connected to a very, very old notion that African-Americans are not…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Congress is where Americans are supposed to have our big, messy political fights. That's because the people who make the laws need…

— Ben Sasse

The real question is how much suffering we've caused our womenfolk by turning headscarves into symbols - and using women as pawns…

— Orhan Pamuk

Most politicians - those people who live, eat and breathe politics - like to sit around and talk about politics and tell…

— Lyn Nofziger

I've been there for so many crossroads in American history. My whole political life spans the birth of the environmental movement, the…

— Barbara Boxer

I don't envy Netanyahu's situation, because I think he is in hot water. Obviously, this man has a totally different sense of…

— Amos Oz

As far as I am concerned, I resign from humanity. I no longer want to be, nor can still be, a man.…

— Anonymous

Ten thousand times has the labor movement stumbled and bruised itself. We have been enjoined by the courts, assaulted by thugs, charged…

— Eugene V. Debs

Moreover, I would like to say that the sort of polar inertia we witnessed in the Kosovo War, the polar inertia involving…

— Paul Virilio

Never has the divide between the iPhone world and the politics world been so clear: I saw a bunch of people very…

— Kevin Williams

I just find it absolutely amazing that the narrative about this situation is not put out publically in the press, because it…

— Julian Assange

Thanks to the euro, our pockets will soon hold solid evidence of a European identity. We need to build on this, and…

— Laurent Fabius

For three decades, Senator Arlen Specter served the people of Pennsylvania with independence, toughness, determination and an unflinching devotion to the best…

— Nancy Pelosi

All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.

— Frank Chodorov

I mean you've got a conservative and right-winged press presence with really nothing on the other end of the political spectrum.

— Hillary Clinton

We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions.

— Harri Holkeri

We have to become involved in the political process - if we don't like it, we can change it.

— Blase J. Cupich

In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.

— Ludwig von Mises

The American mass media have achieved what American political might could not: World domination.

— Akbar S. Ahmed

Reform is like morning glories; they look great early in the day and then they disappear.

— George W. Plunkitt

I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations.

— Thomas Jefferson

We steer clear of fringe political parties or minority groups. We're not trying to orchestrate a revolution.

— Alexander Nix

I hope the terms of Excellency, Honor, Worship, Esquire, forever disappear from among us... I wish that of Mr. would follow them.

— Thomas Jefferson

I grew up in the home of a political cartoonist, so I was a junkie for politics.

— Rod Lurie

I think one of the biggest curses in the U.S. is that we have only two political parties.

— Mark Cuban

I know what motivated you was not just a political campaign. It was your love of our country.

— Alan Nunnelee

My politics are food-related - food banks, the living wage, zero hour contracts - and my food is political.

— Jack Monroe

The question of whether one has one's own political power or goes to work for someone else is not only a feminist…

— Gloria Steinem