Political Quotes · Page 163

Reaping political dividends out of tragedies is deeply engrained in the Congress' DNA.

— Piyush Goyal

Factual truth is always related to other people [...]. It is political by nature.

— Hannah Arendt

Only armchair politicians are immune from committing mistakes. Errors are inherent in political action.

— Nelson Mandela

Political democracy has failed in the U.S. because there hasn't been economic democracy.

— David Dellinger

“The only working model of socialism I have ever seen is in an elementary school classroom.”

— R.M. ArceJaeger

The 'Alliance for Progress' was a political proposal to improve conditions. It was aimed at lowering the social difference between cultures.

— Hugo Chavez

I don't want to beat people over the head with my political views. It's more about the humanitarian aspect of it.

— Lucinda Williams

When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring…

— Pat Boone

America is a country ready to be taken-in fact, longing to be taken-by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to…

— Arianna Huffington

[The loss-of-strength gradient is] the degree to which military and political power diminishes as we move a unit distance away from its…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

I make songs based around my political ideas because they're a big part of life; politics affects my life, politics affects my…

— Declan McKenna

Narratives are not fixed. We change our narratives for ourselves and we change them not necessarily deliberately. In other words, some people…

— Antonio Damasio

Let's be clear on one thing, the corporate media in America is no longer involved in journalism. They're a political special interest…

— Donald Trump

...there are some who are naturally fitted for philosophy and political leadership, while the rest should follow their lead and let philosophy…

— Plato

I wanted to be a part of history and not just a recorder and teacher of history. So that kind of attitude…

— Howard Zinn

Until we reflect basic kindness in everything we do, our political gestures will be fleeting and fragile. Simple kindness may be the…

— Bo Lozoff

There are complaints that it's hard to remember what you can say and what you can't, which words are 'in' for certain…

— Rosalie Maggio

The fact that we don't' talk about it, that we don't have a politics in which this question of war and peace…

— Glenn Loury

It's good to see so many friends here in the Rose Garden. This is our first event in this beautiful spot, and…

— George W. Bush

I spent the better part of a week trying to figure out how to organize these stacks of 30 years of conversations…

— Max Lucado

I think it's hard sometimes for people to grapple with the real-life consequences of political change. I think that, we as a…

— Ben H. Winters

Essentially, my kids grew up with the emphasis on the environment because I became a political activist in about 1969 and it…

— Robert Redford

There are two facets to the CIA's management and control of international drug trafficking, on behalf of the corporate interests that rule…

— Douglas Valentine

I think that to the extent that we focus on problems where we can build a moral and a political consensus, then…

— Barack Obama

If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.

— Al Yankovic

Economic freedom is ... an indispensable means toward the achievement of political freedom.

— Milton Friedman

Ann and I will carry out this equivocal message to the world: Markets must be open.

— George W. Bush

All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It's only a question of degree.

— Alan Greenspan

...a political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it, and within it is no…

— Arundhati Roy

I'm not a political guy, but living here in the U.K., in Swansea, is great for me and my family.

— Lukasz Fabianski

The Republicans may be better off without an agenda. They don't scare people.

— Bill Schneider

The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country.

— Learned Hand

I mean, the thing is, is that Britain has got a great tradition of irreverent political satire.

— Ash Sarkar

I was raised in the West. The west of Texas. It's pretty close to California. In more ways than Washington, D.C., is…

— George W. Bush

Some of us do not accept the Establishment myth that bad laws must be obeyed.

— Tom Driberg

A movie isn't a political movement, a party or even an article. It's just a film. At best it can add its…

— Ken Loach

Most of the time, when their standard-bearers can't close the deal with the voting public, American political parties move on.

— Jamelle Bouie

I'm not a social justice warrior - that was never my goal, to be a political figurehead.

— Violet Chachki

We cannot put cinema in parallel with the political, because politics are something dirty and cinema is not dirty.

— Ali Suliman

Even in independent music, people push towards radio. It is very political.

— Dawn Angelique