Political Quotes · Page 184

There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.

— Earle Brown

Elections are when you have to make a choice. Perfection not often attainable!

— Rupert Murdoch

There is a clear intent to keep Christian thinking out of the mainstream of the media and the nation's political life.

— Erwin W. Lutzer

Either we figure out how to keep corporate cash out of the political system or we lose the democracy.

— Molly Ivins

I have a social philosophy; you have political opinions; he has an ideology.

— Clifford Geertz

A public role endures for the literary high-command, as sages and seers, speaking out on social and political issues.

— Tibor Fischer

War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.

— Ann Richards

I felt like challenging myself and challenging my readers with something darker and heavier. I don't know how to explain it, because…

— Anonymous

The euro zone was driven by the neoliberal view that markets are always efficient. That in itself is political. There was no…

— Joseph Stiglitz

True leadership will not be measured by the ability to muzzle dissent, or to intimidate and harass political opponents at home. The…

— Barack Obama

Fashion is not just about trends. It's about political history. You can trace it from the ancient Romans to probably until the…

— Daphne Guinness

Career politicians do not have the courage to prioritize spending and say no to demanding special interest groups who do not reflect…

— Tom Coburn

Government is not a trade which any man or body of men has a right to set up and exercise for his…

— Thomas Paine

The reign of tears is over. The slums will soon be only a memory. We will turn our prisons into factories and…

— Billy Sunday

I think the age of the modern media campaign has created a new icon, the celebrity-in-chief. Political elections have become wars fought…

— Noah Hawley

...for two centuries supporters of the Electoral College have built their arguments on a series of faulty premises. The Electoral College is…

— George C. Edwards III

Lincoln is such an iconic figure in American history. He seems to reflect so many elements of American culture that we consider…

— Eric Foner

All of a sudden inscriptions appeared on walls. Signs appeared. And that 'no' exploded all over India, in an act of pride…

— Indira Gandhi

I think our responsibility as political leaders today, is to push our economic leaders to change their investment behavior, to decide new…

— Emmanuel Macron

I got to be White House chief of staff, ten years of congressman, secretary of defense, vice-president. If you're a political junkie…

— Dick Cheney

Like most terms of political discourse, socialism has more or less, lost its meaning. Socialism used to mean something. If you go…

— Noam Chomsky

Efficiency in an assembly requires a solid mass of steady votes; and these are collected by a deferential attachment to particular men,…

— Walter Bagehot

Here in America we have a man [Donald Trump] who is a master of a medium that is all about self-aggrandizement and/or…

— Ben H. Winters

I want to make films that are political and social. Films with a message or an idea. Films that dare to ask.

— Juliette Binoche

Economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved.

— Herbert Hoover

True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion.

— Henry Cabot Lodge

What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.

— Anonymous

In a functioning liberal democracy, we cannot normalize political violence.

— Andy Ngo

He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.

— George Bernard Shaw

The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.

— Lysander Spooner

All my life I've been interested in politics. I went on the miners march when I was six months old. My parents…

— Jess Phillips

I do not respect the Dalai Lama. He's a political power broker. The Dalai Lama is not honorable to me.

— Ashin Wirathu

I am convinced that my dark-horse candidacy helped pave the way for women and members of underserved communities to seek political office.

— Deborah K. Ross

The things that have made America great are being subverted for the things that make Americans rich.

— Louise Erickson

The Church is not a political power, nor a political party, but rather a moral reality, a moral force.

— Pope Benedict XVI

No one party can fool all of the people all of the time; that's why we have two parties

— Bob Hope

It is a government of the people by the people for the people no longer it is a government of corporations by…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

We've got to figure out a way to cause communities to also want them, the political, organized bodies.

— Lee Scott

Political correctness will die as it lived - kicking and screaming ad hominem abuse as a substitute for arguments.

— Wendy McElroy