Political Quotes · Page 179

Don't you just hate it when the war on terrorism interferes with political correctness and liberalism's equality fetish?

— Don Feder

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but…

— George Washington

Circumstances in the world of politics contribute substantially to whether or not you can be successful.

— Willie Brown

Today, a politician does not just need public support to win elections; he needs it to govern.

— Dick Morris

The Government of India should take all political parties into confidence before arriving at an agreement with Pakistan.

— Rajnath Singh

I will be a president of all Bulgarians, irrespective of their ethnicity, religion or political affiliations.

— Georgi Parvanov

Self-regulation stands in relation to regulation the way self-importance stands in relation to importance.

— Willem Buiter

I have been a part of four different genres - a political satire, gangster drama, thriller and period drama.

— Shriya Pilgaonkar

In speaking of natural rights, therefore, it is essential to remember that these alleged rights have no political force whatsoever, unless recognized…

— Charles Edward Merriam

Mandates are rarely won on election night. They are earned after Inauguration Day by leaders who spend their political capital wisely, taking…

— Ron Fournier

I still believe that term limits is the best way to ensure that the next generation, not the next election, is the…

— Tom Coburn

It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into…

— Frederic Bastiat

We've seen it in the last U.S. presidential campaign 2016: both sides were trading graphs and circulating data visualizations to make their…

— David Mccandless

Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against…

— Lewis Mumford

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides…

— George Orwell

It's very hard to impose your beliefs or a specific message about any given movie. I think that audiences always extract what…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

Once the law, properly enacted, is routinely ignored, and ignored with the blessing and the promotion of the political class, then you…

— Rush Limbaugh

The military is the largest polluter in the country, and so you have a lot of military waste contaminating reservations - as,…

— Winona LaDuke

Once the ISIS threat has been reduced or eliminated, I think we can turn our attention directly to stabilizing the situation in…

— Rex W. Tillerson

As far as Bernie Sanders is concerned, he is a decent, honest person, and I supported him. What he means by socialism…

— Noam Chomsky

We can be hindered in our development and our personal growth by political conditions. Outer circumstances can constrain us. Only when we…

— Jostein Gaarder

The government of the United States, under Lyndon Johnson, proposes to concern itself over the quality of American life. And this is…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

I do write, but for now I am keeping it all in the desk drawer. I have always written. The only book…

— Emmanuel Macron

People like to say, “Well, you’re a celebrity. You should really pick a cause.” I felt that’s like telling a doctor, “Well,…

— Sophia Bush

Stability and a prosperous life cannot be set off against a set of political rights and freedoms.

— Dmitry Medvedev

Office tends to confer a dreadful plausibility on even the most negligible of those who hold it.

— Mark Lawson

An excessive amount of my time is taken with political involvement. It's unavoidable; that's my temperament.

— Wole Soyinka

“The political spectrum is not a straight, bi-polar line. It's a circle.”

— T. Rafael Cimino

The United States provides Israel with crucial security and economic aid and invaluable political backing in the international arena.

— Ehud Olmert

Confronted with economic problems, politicians always blame the private sector first ... [even] blaming the problem on the solution.

— Richard L. Gordon

What a terrible world it would be if we only did films that were poster boards for political causes.

— Alex Gibney

While offering economic continuity, Common Market 2.0 would mean we leave the political institutions of the E.U.

— Nick Boles

You saw the president yesterday. I thought he was very forward-leaning, as they say in diplomatic nuanced circles.

— George W. Bush

I was forced to be political because I had bombs falling on me as a child in Tehran.

— Shervin Pishevar

When people know there's going to be something silly they allow you the space to be political.

— Omid Djalili

“What is the Third Estate? Everything. What has it been hitherto in the political order? Nothing. What does it desire to be?…

— Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

— Thomas Merton

The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely.

— Lyman Bryson

The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

— Learned Hand

Without Freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom;and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.

— Benjamin Franklin