Political Quotes · Page 162

Political parties serve to keep each other in check, one keenly watching the other.

— Henry Clay

My first film, 'Leader,' created a lot of political drama. Its release was pushed back twice.

— Rana Daggubati

Anti-New Deal rhetoric has never disappeared from American political life.

— Adam Cohen

Not to diminish the value of the heart, but our political body needs a head, too.

— Jackie Fuchs

Education should be about teaching, not indoctrinating students with a political agenda.

— Mark Robinson

What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism.

— Pauline Kael

We should not import a retarded political Islamic society into our country.

— Geert Wilders

Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole.

— Anonymous

With the magnitude of the challenges we face right now, what we need in Washington are not more political tactics, we need…

— Barack Obama

I try not to get political, I don't want to get religious, I don't want to get controversial, I just want to…

— Gabriel Iglesias

The world is a big place, and there are many paths that lead to success. This applies to both political and economic…

— Nguyen Minh Triet

I was a man who was lucky enough to have discovered a political theory, a man who was caught up in the…

— Fidel Castro

Understanding what is going on in the world today inspires me in a negative sense because there's so much about it that…

— Theodora Goss

If I were running to be somebody, there are a lot of easier sombodies to be. After all, running against the incumbent…

— Marco Rubio

I am absolutely opposed to political correctness. You cannot confront hate speech until you've experienced it. You need to hear every side…

— Jane Elliott

Castro has lived almost his entire life as a clandestine revolutionary. To such figures, truth is always malleable, always subservient to political…

— Stephen Kinzer

Statistics tell us that of the 500,000 people who arrived, those who are granted political asylum are more or less 10 percent.…

— Matteo Salvini

I don't really stay away from politics but the bullshit just gets to be too much. Any political tweets I take down…

— John Lurie

The dream for many millennial women is to make a difference as social or political entrepreneurs. They are using the social media…

— Gail Sheehy

Throughout American history, the political leaders have always exhorted the American people to be nice and quiet and leave things to them.…

— Howard Zinn

Abandoned by the existing political system, young people in Oakland, California, New York City, Quebec and numerous other cities throughout the globe…

— Henry Giroux

The communism of combined wealth and capital, the outgrown of overweening cupidity and selfishness which assiduously undermines the justice and integrity of…

— Grover Cleveland

During the 1960s, large groups of people who are normally passive and apathetic began to try to enter the political arena to…

— Noam Chomsky

Believe me: The day [Barack] Obama goes off, and he leaves, and goes out to the golf course for the rest of…

— Donald Trump

There's been shock waves sent throughout all parts of the nation's economic fabric.

— George W. Bush

There's no way in the world you're going to make a political party respectable unless you keep it out of office.

— Will Rogers

I want to use my music to deliver a political message and sometimes to denounce, but I don't want to be a…

— Youssou N'Dour

The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas.

— Christopher Morley

I don't consider myself a political artist, but I am political just by nature of being a woman.

— Lisa Hanawalt

I desire that on no occasion ... shall demonstrations of a political or religious character be made before my remains.

— Francesc Ferrer i Guardia

In another life, before taking the veil of journalistic purity, I practiced the black arts of a political operative, including 'debate prep.

— Jeff Greenfield

Middle-class societies don't emerge automatically as an economy matures, they have to be CREATED through political action.

— Paul Krugman

Political differences will always generate a healthy debate, but over time the dialogue has become more hateful and at times violent.

— Mark Udall

I'm still a political revolutionary. The fire never went out of me, but perceptions and realizations change.

— Bobby Seale

Mr. Ware has no right to discharge any of his laborers on account of their political opinion.

— Charles E. Merrill

Having five children in six years is the best training in the world for Speaker of the House.

— Nancy Pelosi

If only political leaders would allow themselves to feel, as well as to think, the world might be a happier place.

— Golda Meir

We can look at history and see that [political turmoil is] fertile ground for art.

— Morgan Parker

You're not a human till you're in my phone book. There. My hat is now in the political ring.

— Bill Hicks

It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes.

— Joseph Stalin