Political Quotes · Page 164

We want to believe racism is an artifact of the past, and if you have a political massacre, that contradicts that.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

What you demand from storytelling is a moral - even political - import. I tend to shun that didactic aspect.

— Aleksandar Hemon

Whether you call it terrorism or resistance, and whether you like Hamas or not, it is a political entity that no one…

— Bashar al-Assad

We need to end unlimited, unaccountable money for all political parties by passing comprehensive campaign finance reform.

— Patrick Murphy

Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that.

— Don Rickles

Whatever your political convictions, speeches in years gone by from Margaret Thatcher to Neil Kinnock remain utterly unforgettable.

— Cathy Newman

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.

— Bertrand Russell

I've always been interested in socially political, or overtly political, comedy.

— John Oliver

Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is,…

— Edmund Burke

My mission is to convert every Indian, every Englishman and finally the world to nonviolence for regulating mutual relations, whether political, economic,…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I get that we live in a culture where political correctness is expected, especially in polite company, but we also cannot divorce…

— Phaedra Parks

As in political revolutions, so in paradigm choice-there is no standard higher than the assent of the relevant community... this issue of…

— Thomas Kuhn

Can you let your son's body become the same temperature as your son's head before you turn this into a political campaign…

— Glenn Beck

There are many Americans who regardless of the intelligence or the profound political persuasion of a figure will never vote for a…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Each reform, therefore, improving the economical and political situation of the workers proves to be an arm that increases the energy with…

— Clara Zetkin

The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy.…

— James Buchan

I am a convinced and consistent critic of party-parliamentarism. I am for non-partisan elections of true people's representatives who are accountable to…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Religion is about God's truth, but none of us can grasp that truth absolutely, because of our own imperfections and limitations. We…

— Hillary Clinton

I'm telling you what I'm telling you. I will go wherever I have to go, listen to whoever I have to listen…

— Pete Carroll

The ideological are individuals ultimately swamped by the complexities of modern life and political and economic relations; they have deliberately attached themselves…

— Kenny Smith

A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I trust in due time to lay the perfidy, meanness, and wickedness of [Henry] Clay naked before the American people. I have…

— Andrew Jackson

October is the cruelest month of any election year, but by then, the pain is so great that even the strong are…

— Hunter S. Thompson

If candidates spend money on ads and other political speech and their opponents are rewarded with government handouts to attack them, that…

— Bradley A. Smith

I thought I'd grow up to be a teacher, or maybe run for political office.

— Jake Shimabukuro

The good news is, the cake is baked. Barack Obama will not be reelected president.

— Michele Bachmann

I never intended to become an opposition political leader. Perhaps the government wants to raise me up into one.

— Park Won-soon

It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.

— Anonymous

It's very important for folks to understand that when there's more trade, there's more commerce.

— George W. Bush

Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.

— Jean Anouilh

Embryonic stem cell research wears no political stripes - it is embraced by conservatives, liberals, Democrats, Republicans, and Independents.

— Diana DeGette

Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics.

— John Mason Brown

Those who start war often know that because of their high political position their own lives will not be in danger. on…

— Jimmy Carter

As a writer, I have readers who will have a range of political views. I don't think they look to me for…

— Alexander McCall Smith

The best way to appreciate our political process is to volunteer for a campaign and support a candidate you believe in.

— Rob McKenna

I was involved with the anti-apartheid movement through my work as an artist and also through my political commitment.

— Danny Glover

When thugs by nature meet thugs by political conviction, 5-0 is not surprising.

— John McCarthy

I also recognise that the mandate was given by hundreds of thousands of ordinary people joining in the political process.

— Jeremy Corbyn

I'm a big fan of the vigor of civil society, political engagement, and public life in many parts of Latin America.

— Rebecca Solnit

To say Congress is spending like drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors.

— Ronald Reagan