Political Quotes · Page 156

I am not one who - who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.

— George H. W. Bush

An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise.

— Kate Smith

We Americans love to cite the 'political spectrum' as the best way to classify ideologies. The metaphor is incorrect: it implies symmetry.

— Rick Perlstein

That wall, embodied in the First Amendment, is perhaps America's most important contribution to political progress on this planet.

— Lowell P. Weicker, Jr

But I think it's quite clear in my work that my orientation isn't political or doesn't come out of modern politics.

— Jane Campion

It's no use trying to talk philosophy to our politicians. And I'm not a moral or political philosopher. I'm not interested in…

— Marjorie Grene

Better to be the architect of something you can endorse than the placard waving protagonist standing in the rain.

— Mr. Wrestling

In the 1820s, westerners and political outsiders worried that rich men in the east had commandeered the government for their own ends.

— Heather Cox Richardson

Whatever the political affiliation of our next President, whatever his views may be on all the issues and problems that rush in…

— John F. Kennedy

There are some remarkable parallels between basketball and politics. Michael Jordan has already mastered the skill most needed for political success: how…

— Margaret Thatcher

The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This…

— Robert Anton Wilson

During a political campaign everyone is concerned with what a candidate will do on this or that question if he is elected…

— Everett Dirksen

It is such a disappointment in American political reaction and actions. When some of our politicians are flying around the country in…

— Arnold Palmer

By playing down to the idea of the common man, dogmatic political authority exploits him... So the ideal of innate aristocracy of…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

I could care less for the actual political side of things, but I love people and I love doing everything that I…

— Jasmine Crockett

Political debate with liberals is basically impossible in America today because liberals are calling names while conservatives are trying to make arguments.

— Ann Coulter

I think the most exciting thing is access to information. People's ability to document things and expose things that may have not…

— Moby

The result of cutting [political power] up into little bits is simply that the man who can sweep the greatest number into…

— James Fitzjames Stephen

The royalists of the economic order have conceded that political freedom was the business of the government, but they have maintained that…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

It's politically impossible, as you know, for any member of Congress to make a public statement condemning or criticizing the policies of…

— Reza Aslan

Our most conservative estimates show that by adopting shall-issue laws(concealed carry laws), states reduced murders by 8.5%, rapes by 5%, aggravated assaults…

— John R. Lott Jr

My goal is to achieve a little less injustice in Uruguay, to help the most vulnerable and to leave behind a political…

— Jose Mujica

The great thing about 2017 is that, because of the terrible political state that we're in and that America is in, young…

— Charli XCX

Oftentimes when you have the federal government or others step in and start to raise minimum wage, what happens is you take…

— Kevin Madden

Political positions do not belong to the officeholder; they belong to the people that place us in office.

— Aja Brown

The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or…

— Thomas Jefferson

Americans are being attacked nationwide because of their party affiliation and political ideology.

— Vernon Jones

Many science people feel groups like WHO are there to do a job and not to be dealt with in a political…

— Gerhard Herzberg

Government," says Swift, "is a plain thing, and fitted to the capacity of many heads.

— Thomas Paine

If you look at things historically, Kanye West has really represented the battering ram against political correctness.

— Candace Owens

Protest is political. It is as political as what our conception of America is.

— DeRay Mckesson

But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.

— Diane Wakoski

I think it's critical that we return national security issues to the center of the overall political debate in America.

— John Bolton

You can stick a fork in Barack Obama. Politically, he's done. The main way we can screw this up is if we…

— Tim Pawlenty

We've investigated the gun lobby and its political donations and how it spread the Stand Your Ground laws from Florida.

— Clara Jeffery

I was never informed in advance about the start of the war or about foreign political developments.

— Fritz Sauckel

In Texas, we do not hold high expectations for the [governor's] office; it's mostly been occupied by crooks, dorks and the comatose.

— Molly Ivins

There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think…

— Robert A. Heinlein

My family helped start [this country], we've been in political life ... since the 1690s, and I have a very possessive sense…

— Gore Vidal

Political power means the capacity to regulate national life through national representatives.

— Mahatma Gandhi