Political Quotes · Page 168

I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces.

— Dan Rather

Any politician who can be elected only by turning Americans against other Americans is too dangerous to be elected.

— Thomas Sowell

Delhi was not completely a new place for me, but as a political worker, it was a new place.

— Nirmala Sitharaman

In the spring and summer of 1989, a serious political disturbance took place in China.

— Li Peng

Palestinians were religious in many ways, but they did not subscribe to political Islam, historically.

— Hanan Ashrawi

I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.

— Hal Holbrook

I used to do some philanthropic work, but with the political platform, I can contribute in a bigger way.

— Chiranjeevi

Hip-hop has globalized a conception of blackness that has had a political impact, whether or not it had a political intent.

— Michael Eric Dyson

Often dismissed or underestimated by political opponents, President Reagan had the most valuable weapon in the political arsenal: a bond with the…

— Anonymous

Oh! the wisdom, the foresight and the hindsight and the rightsight and the leftsight, the northsight and the southsight, and the eastsight…

— John Adams

Me, it was always about being able to bounce around to where I wanna be. Like, with 'Arular,' people always say it's…

— M.I.A

I have been a print reporter my whole career. It's all I ever wanted to be. I specialize in political profiles. I…

— Mark Leibovich

Satire is used for political purposes all the time, but obviously there's a time and a place. I think in the current…

— George Michael

We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the…

— Abraham Lincoln

Africa does not have an uncle abroad who will come to bail it out of its political and economic woes. It is…

— Bernard Membe

Libertarians secretly worried that ultimately someone will figure out the whole of their political philosophy boils down to “Get Off My Property.”…

— John Scalzi

In my opinion, mature political action is the type of action that that involves a program of re-education and information that will…

— Malcolm X

There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Hollywood is still the cradle of many myths, including the one of eternal youth. I find it odd that the very notion…

— Anne Fontaine

When my father began to work with President John. F.Kennedy, we moved to Washington, D.C. I was fortunate in my pre-adolescent years,…

— Queen Noor of Jordan

If the masses started to accept UFOs, it would profoundly affect their attitude towards life, politics, everything. It would threaten the status…

— John Lennon

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a…

— James Madison

Deep down, all of us are probably aware that some kind of mystical evolution is our true task. Yet we suppress the…

— Tom Robbins

If I would want to have a huge audience, I would make American movies, not French movies, because there is a limit…

— Jean-Pierre Jeunet

I am committed to curbing the influence of money in our political system.

— William J. Clinton

In my view, [the trade deficit] will create political turmoil at some point...Pretty soon, I think there will be a big adjustment.

— Warren Buffett

“The Al Saud believe they have an asset more powerful than the ballot box: they have Allah.”

— Karen Elliott House

A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.

— Adam Cohen

In their political careers, Obama and Biden faced down lobbyists, Tea Party carpetbaggers, and Washington gridlock.

— Andrew Shaffer

Sisterhood cannot be assumed on the basis of gender; it must be forged in concrete historical and political practice and analysis

— Chandra Talpade Mohanty

Any story you write about war, or film you make about war, is bound to be political whether you like it or…

— Michael Morpurgo

We deal with a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights-older than our political parties, older than our school system.

— William O. Douglas

In a lifetime of observing and participating in political debate, I have seen a lot of meanness.

— Dennis Prager

Tolling plan is a wonderful opportunity for political pandering, and some candidates are taking full advantage of it.

— Robert James Thomson

I'm not looking for peace on earth, though, through a political solution. I'm a pastor.

— Rick Warren

The Cold War was really the great struggle of the 20th Century and it shaped American political life from top to bottom.

— Jeff Sharlet

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

— Aristotle

I'm not a political person. I usually beware of political persons. I know many, but I'm not one of them. I have…

— Elie Wiesel

Political Economy or Economics is a study of mankind in the ordinary business of life.

— Alfred Marshall

The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.

— Bernard Crick