Political Quotes · Page 177

When a man once gets a start holding office, it is nearly always necessary to finally choke him off.

— E. W. Howe

Citizens United provided unprecedented political weaponry to big special interests. My personal view was it was calculated to do that.

— Sheldon Whitehouse

There's a social piece to what's going on in the Sugarland world, but we've never been a band that's political, and I…

— Kristian Bush

The difference between congressmen and drunken sailors is that drunken sailors are spending their own money.

— Tom Feeney

You see the ups and downs of political life - one minute you've got a job the next minute you're thrown out.

— Lindsay Hoyle

I would like to offer a candidate to be added to the venerable list of English collective nouns: a scum of politicians.

— John P. Wheeler III

Jason McDermott's political career, however bogus, appears to have had an early and promising start.

— Bill Dedman

The typical presidential staff resents the vice-president even more than they do the first lady.

— Dick Morris

When we win on an issue we call it leadership. When we lose, we call it politics. Practicing politics simply means increasing…

— Anonymous

Despite its enormous power and wealth, China's ruling elite remains absolutely petrified that the free flow of information will undermine its political…

— Tom Lantos

Everywhere I go - from Main Street to Wall Street - people ask, 'What's happened to our political system? Why can't Washington…

— Tom Brokaw

The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important 'cause there were two boys, so…

— Al Franken

Rarely do political contributions lead to direct quid pro quo transactions - donations for votes - and those that cross this line…

— Chris Murphy

The Constitution is the origin and measure of legislative authority. It says to legislators, thus far ye shall go and no farther.…

— William Paterson

I had imagined I would come back at some point. But yeah, that was for a very specific reason. I will be…

— Joss Whedon

People of Haiti, I am the heir to the political philosophy, the doctrine and the revolution which my late father incarnated as…

— Jean-Claude Duvalier

And you can claim whatever you want to of being pro-life or pro- choice, but the right to a abortion is not…

— Sam Brownback

We never really see the global situation as a total situation. Today's political leaders are still lacking of the vision. They very…

— Ai Weiwei

There is hardly an aspect of contemporary history more irritating and mystifying than the fact that of all the great unsolved political…

— Hannah

The foulest damage to our political life comes not from the 'secrets' which they hide from us, but from the little bits…

— E. P. Thompson

I don't believe that the American people want us to focus on our job security. They want us to focus on their…

— Barack Obama

We are supposed to believe that every dollar given to a Clinton is a dollar that improves the world. But is it?…

— Maureen Dowd

Now the dictatorship or call it the 'Indonesian regime', fully consolidated its power... You see, the West told Indonesians, indirectly of course,…

— Andre Vltchek

There is something universal in the theme of a man trying to save his family in the midst of the most terrible…

— Edward Zwick

We have retained the forms and phrases of a republic, but in reality we are living under an oligarchy, not of courtesan,…

— Frank Chodorov

I know the media likes to personalize political debates, and I know the government will demonize me.

— Edward Snowden

You know, if you find a person that you've never seen before getting in a crop-duster that doesn't belong to you, report…

— George W. Bush

The political spirit is the great force in throwing the love of truth and accurate reasoning into a secondary place.

— John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn

It's just as political, what you do in the bedroom is just as political as what you do in public.

— Christopher Bollen

Cisco has not and does not design products for the purpose of political censorship.

— Marc Chandler

Political scientists have often described Gaullism as a sort of Bonapartism. I myself have occasionally compared Sarkozy to Napoleon Bonaparte.

— Max Gallo

The political left has been weak on protecting society from criminals for more than two centuries.

— Thomas Sowell

We can have a political system that works for the people and allows for the economy to thrive. It doesn't have to…

— Jamaal Bowman

I mean, there needs to be a wholesale effort against racial profiling, which is illiterate children.

— George W. Bush

I was trying to say something about Christianity, the idea that you have to be tortured to attain heaven. I didn't believe…

— John Lennon

I don't bring God into my life to - to, you know, kind of be a political person.

— George W. Bush

Americans have a keen sense for political stunts, and the ACLU's push to dismantle DHS is as close as it gets.

— Chad Wolf

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

— Abbie Hoffman

You can't say, "I'm too busy writing to be political." You are one person.

— Ann Patchett

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time.

— Martin Luther King, Jr