Political Quotes · Page 176

I guess I just don't have the killer instinct that I think makes a great political cartoonist.

— Bill Watterson

To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.

— Anonymous

Personally, I'm tired of hearing the whole have-you-no-decency routine from people who have made quite clear that they possess none themselves.

— Glenn Reynolds

No one ever died from smoking marijuana, but millions of people have died by believing politicians.

— Harry Browne

Despite the frequent use of coal miners as a potent political symbol, coal jobs are disappearing - and they're not coming back.

— Tom Steyer

Decide on some imperfect Somebody and you will win, because the truest truism in politics is: You can't beat Somebody with Nobody.

— William Safire

We are not going to waste our reserves and burn them for any political ambitions. We will act very carefully.

— Vladimir Putin

In political, strategic as well as economic and commercial areas, Singapore has become a fulcrum for India's policies east of India.

— Subrahmanyam Jaishankar

The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called…

— Ray Bradbury

Being Jewish and having lost relatives in the Holocaust, I've always been aware of the meaning of prejudice. These are things that…

— Bernie Sanders

I wanted to tell a romantic and dark side of Ottoman history that was also slightly political, saying to the previous generation…

— Orhan Pamuk

I want to stress again the importance of really living what we claim to believe. That needs to be a priority-not just…

— Charles J. Chaput

We might as easily reprove the east wind, or the frost, as a political party, whose members, for the most part, could…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If supporters of equality for women want to vote for the best candidate, they must look to a person regardless of gender…

— Karen DeCrow

My work isn't overtly political, although it is sometimes painted in places where I don't have permission to paint, so that could…

— Ben Eine

One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world…

— Paulo Freire

“A man who lives a part, not to others but alone, is exposed to obvious psychological dangers. In itself the practice of…

— John le Carré

In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find…

— A. N. Wilson

The reason Vladimir Putin released Pussy Riot, the Greenpeace activists who were kidnapped in international waters and kept in prison for two…

— Masha Gessen

Certainly, for a newspaper director, to have within arm's reach a Travaglio, about whom every starring actor, supporting cast and extra of…

— Indro Montanelli

America was founded by puritans and like it or not the anti-pleasure dogma of those buckled-shoed killjoys still pervades our collective unconscious…

— Dennis Miller

The concept of unlimited expansion that alone can fulfill the hope for unlimited accumulation of capital, and brings about the aimless accumulation…

— Hannah Arendt

Some writers like to boil down headlines of liberal newspapers into fiction, so they say there shouldn't be communal riots, everybody should…

— Arundhati Roy

[Persons] who are recognized as citizens in any one state of the Union [have] the right to enter every other state, whenever…

— Jack Kevorkian

A lot of songs we've written have been political, but they're also personally political.

— Curt Smith

A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination.

— David Horowitz

What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving.

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

We've got a deeply flawed political system with an insane overreaching extremist element, with a Supreme Court that is completely loony.

— Lizz Winstead

I love history because when you strip away the social and political aspects, it's really just a bunch of fun stories.

— Duff Goldman

We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the…

— J. C. Watts

I had to learn to navigate the political and religious currents in a state where Mormonism dominates despite not being Mormon.

— Ron Stallworth

“The presuming social view that mental health is not as serious as the media says it is, blocks progress. This too is…

— Tamara Hill, MS

I may have a lot of political opinions but it doesn't necessarily come into my work. I keep the two worlds separate.

— Robert Barry

I think that behind the scenes the Pope [Francis] is seen as more of a religious figure, but obviously he is sort…

— Joy-Ann Reid

I don't think you want political parties that are entirely driven by some extremely doctrinal ideology.

— William Kristol

The Family is the oldest and arguably most influential religious political organization in Washington.

— Jeff Sharlet

It was all to do with the change of producer as well as political reasons I don't really comprehend.

— Louise Jameson

I've voted in every election - not always for the same political party and never with any degree of enthusiasm.

— Tom Stoppard

I've never made a political donation to Hillary Clinton or any other political candidate.

— Bill Browder

I'm pretty political when it comes to human rights and things like that.

— Peter Krause