Political Quotes · Page 158

“Have a smile on your face for everyone you meet, and a plan to kill them.”

— Brad Thor

I am such a coward when it comes to political arguments. I tend to sort of recoil rather than engage.

— John Lithgow

It's exciting to me that people know that I'm someone who's very political.

— Kerry Washington

There aren't a lot of political dramas on TV, and those that are tend to be American.

— Jed Mercurio

I think the women in the political positions will push very, very hard to see that there are loans and banks for…

— Swanee Hunt

The stimulus was a case of political patronage, corporate welfare, and cronyism at their worst.

— Paul Ryan

While you only get to vote in political elections once in a while, you get to vote with your fork three times…

— Randi Zuckerberg

The longer a politician bears power, the more he is controlled by that power.

— Tom Coburn

The characteristic mark of this age of dictators, wars and revolutions is its anticapitalistic bias. Most governments and political parties were eager…

— Ludwig von Mises

The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political…

— Carl Bernstein

Most political operations - and government - don't try to be rigorous about decision-making or force themselves to think about what they…

— Dominic Cummings

When the initial effort of political and business leaders to influence public opinion on an issue is to threaten rather than to…

— Preston Manning

Certain political figures think when you call them and ask them for a comment; that you are somehow doing something that you…

— Bob Woodward

If you can’t lead and you can’t deliver, then your own personal political philosophy is pretty much irrelevant, there have been far…

— Rich Nugent

Increasingly fed by a moral and political hysteria, warlike values produce and endorse shared fears as the primary register of social relations.

— Henry Giroux

There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the…

— James Madison

Practically every profession has a really political environment. I think the world has become more competitive. There are so many people in…

— Robert Greene

I think you have to take the man at his word [Donald Trump]. Is kind of an equal-opportunity insulter. He started by…

— Hillary Clinton

Student debt is structured to be a burden for life. The indebted cannot declare bankruptcy, unlike Donald Trump. Current student debt is…

— Noam Chomsky

Make no mistake about it: the labeling of someone's language as 'sexist' involves a political judgment and implies the desirability of a…

— Neil Postman

Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people,…

— Michael Ignatieff

We made a sacred covenant to follow the Creator's life plan at all times, which includes the responsibility of taking care of…

— Thomas Banyacya

The American creationist movement has entirely bypassed the scientific forum and has concentrated instead on political lobbying and on taking its case…

— Kenneth R. Miller

But I think the American people expect more from us than cries of indignation and attack. The times are too grave, the…

— John F. Kennedy

The more we can do to address fiscal austerity, the better our markets will do, and there is a real political shift…

— Meredith Whitney

I think that the economy, and the political system, has literally become such a disaster I don't know if it's possible to…

— James Woods

Any serious social, political, and economic change must include veganism.

— Anonymous

My involvement in the political arena is to make sure there's a place for culture.

— Yo-Yo Ma

Nothing becomes reality in the political life of a nation that was not present in its literature as spirit.

— Hugo von Hofmannsthal

“I have some bad news. Bjork cannot be here tonight. She was trying on her Oscar dress and Dick Cheney shot her.”

— Jon Stewart

My informal writing style is a political choice, because I want feminism to be more accessible.

— Jessica Valenti

The Brexit Party doesn't have any candidates, because it's not a proper political party.

— Gerard Batten

The case to be made is that we have got to get people involved - continue to get people involved in the…

— Bernie Sanders

I sometimes feel housing should be non-political, like the NHS, ring-fenced and protected and not a political stick that's thrown around.

— George Clarke

Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the political leaders consistently refused to engage in good-faith negotiation.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The political is not compatible with the artistic, because the former, in order to prove, has to be one-sided.

— Leo Tolstoy

The political world, the political life, is all out there. Our family has to come first.

— Karen Pence

He slept more than any other president, whether by day or by night. Nero fiddled, but Coolidge only snored.

— H. L. Mencken

We will not allow to become a political issue in this country the question of Asianisation.

— Bob Hawke

Anyway, I'm so thankful, and so gracious - I'm gracious that my brother Jeb is concerned about the hemisphere as well.

— George W. Bush