Political Quotes · Page 159

The Internet empowers individuals to play a more active role in the political process, as Obama's campaign has manifested.

— Al Gore

My work is drawn to the political but avoids an agenda. There is no inherent critique or support.

— Taryn Simon

When the President signs this act, the invisible government by the money power will be legalized.

— Charles Lindbergh

I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world.

— Charles Dickens

It's important for young men and women who look at the Nebraska champs to understand that quality of life is more than…

— George W. Bush

There has never been a time when I was not committed to, involved in, or caring of, the social and political issues…

— Jessye Norman

I was very engaged in my communities throughout college, but I never thought of it as political.

— Michelle Lujan Grisham

Drag has always been very political and challenging of societal norms and other aspects of life.

— Aquaria

I can very well say without hesitation that all those who have political power, even if they use it well have acquired…

— Jacques Ellul

The overarching issue, as I see it, is the elitism of America's political system; the fact that regular, ordinary Americans aren't considered…

— Jerry Springer

The very purpose of a bill of rights is to withdraw certain subjects from...political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of…

— Robert H. Jackson

It is possible that the distinction between moral relativism and moral absolutism has sometimes been blurred because an excessively consistent practice of…

— Richard Hofstadter

Sometimes in the middle of a presidential campaign, there's a political movie, and people are sick of hearing about politics, and they…

— Casey Affleck

The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups…

— Otto Schily

There's a very striking fact about the elections which you can't miss if you looked at the red-and-blue electoral map the next…

— Noam Chomsky

I always try to see things with children's eyes. Are they happy? Sad? What do they need? Everywhere I went, I realized…

— Nana Mouskouri

After a period in which technocrats attempted to become stars and stars to become politicians, the political void has been occupied by…

— John Ralston Saul

The Constitution does not protect the sovereignty of States for the benefit of the States or state governments as abstract political entities,…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

“The Democratic Party would like to be re-elected so that they can continue to uphold almost no Occupational Safety & Health Administration…

— Steven Magee

Radicals, on the other hand, want to advance from the jungle of laissez-faire capitalism to a world worthy of the name of…

— Saul Alinsky

Tayyip Erdogan wants to go beyond George W. Bush by making critical journalism and critics in the academy illegal. What will be…

— Tariq Ali

ISIS is going to devolve from physical political emirate, into what Al Qaeda was, which is a covert organization which will go…

— Malcolm Wrightson Nance

I came to the conclusion that most people in America would really like to be able to get a job where they…

— David Graeber

“Political tags — such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth — are never basic criteria. The human…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.

— Clancy Brown

Design is both a political and cultural force for change, although most designers choose not to think about the power it has.

— Jonathan Barnbrook

I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean,…

— Mark Twain

The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.

— Paul Wellstone

What a heap of ash most political careers amount to, when one really stops to consider them!

— Robert Harris

In political administration, no problem is ever simple. It can never be reduced to the question whether a certain measure is good…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

What this White House really needs is a chief of staff who can read Machiavelli in the original Italian.

— Mack McLarty

It's embarrassing ... you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List.

— Abbie Hoffman

Our political leaders often talk about Russia taking an independent path, but they like to live like people in the West.

— Alexei Navalny

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

— William S. Burroughs

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.

— P. J. O'Rourke

At a time when political correctness is valued over honesty I would also like to say right on motherfuckers!

— Madonna Ciccone

The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already…

— Woodrow Wilson

I am absolutely disgusted that anyone would put thousands of America's boys at risk just to win a Political Campaign.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

Shirley Chisholm is another one [political hero]. She was a dynamic speaker, and the first black woman to run for President.

— Donna Brazile

I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all.

— Billy Bragg