Political Quotes · Page 178

Experience shows that when political governance and economic management diverge, overall development becomes unsustainable.

— Mo Ibrahim

You can change your wife, your politics, your religion, but never, never can you change your favourite football team.

— Eric Cantona

The best test of whether someone is extremely stupid (or extremely wise) is whether financial and political news makes sense to him.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Martyrdom of followers is a strategy of political leaders to grab money and power.

— Sreenivasan

My dad was quite political in the Seventies. He has a definite opinion about politics and things going on in the world.

— Kayvan Novak

There are two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible.

— Alec Douglas-Home

The responsibility of political philosophy that tries to engage with practice is to be clear, or at least accessible.

— Michael Sandel

The only devils in the world are those running around in our own hearts - that is where the battle should be…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Believe me, the intellectual revolution is going on, and that has to come first before you see the political changes. That's where…

— Ron Paul

It may be that a more subtle person would find for this thing a reason of greater subtlety: but such is the…

— Dante Alighieri

It's wrong to focus only on economic cooperation and then to hope that a sufficiently stable system will become democratic more or…

— Alvaro de Vasconcelos

We must respect each other's right to choose a collective destiny, and the opportunity to develop the legal and political rights for…

— Jackie Huggins

In Russia, you have political parties engaged in all kinds of nefarious activity. And they may just assume that in America it…

— Dmitri Alperovitch

What I like about Bain Capital is that we have Republicans, we have Democrats, we have independents; we are a diverse firm…

— Stephen Pagliuca

It is better to tolerate the rare instance of a parent refusing to let his child be educated, than to shock the…

— Thomas Jefferson

Americans continue to suffer from a notoriously short attention span. They get mad as hell with reasonable frequency, but quickly return to…

— Eric Alterman

There isn't a specific Trump philosophy. That's why you're never gonna be able to pin Trump down on. He doesn't have a…

— Rush Limbaugh

After political crusades for 'affordable housing' ended up ruining the housing market and much of the economy with it, many of the…

— Thomas Sowell

Kalecki thus precisely predicted the economic and political U-turn that occurred with the advent of neoliberalism. Kalecki also argued that fundamental institutional…

— Jim Stanford

The Republicans have picked that as the one thing that they want to hang on to to try to gain some political…

— Noam Chomsky

There are two kinds of comprehensive doctrines, religious and secular. Those of religious faith will say I give a veiled argument for…

— John Rawls

Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all…

— John Stuart Mill

I am an old, old friend of Aaron Sorkin's, who is the executive producer and writer. He had been talking about doing…

— Bradley Whitford

His hair has the long jesuschrist look. He is wearing the costume clothes. But most of all, he now has a very…

— Tom Wolfe

A government can do only what is feasible given the political and economic context.

— P. Chidambaram

Political correctness has changed everything. People forget that political correctness used to be called spastic gay talk.

— Frankie Boyle

I feel like my political beliefs are rooted in the conservatism that I was raised with.

— Hillary Clinton

In some countries we have had the right to vote for less than 100 years, so the entry of women into political…

— Iveta Radicova

I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.

— V. S. Naipaul

As a political spouse, I've found that my stoicism often serves me well.

— Jill Biden

Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking.

— Laozi

Today, the most important political instrument in the hands of the opposition is the presidential veto.

— Donald Tusk

People are not hungry because we dont produce enough. People are hungry for political reasons.

— Tom Colicchio

If the States do not have the right to secede, then they have no rights at all.

— Walter E. Williams

I mean, putting women in the center of a movie and not talking about men, that's already political, right?

— Celine Sciamma

There is no reason for women to trail behind men in social, economic, and political outcomes.

— Jose Angel Gurria

I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's…

— Edith Wharton

I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity

— Elfriede Jelinek

My passion strengthens daily to quit political turmoil, and retire into the bosom of my family, the only scene of sincere and…

— Thomas Jefferson

I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.

— Bob Dylan