Political Quotes · Page 186

I look forward to the day when the Westminster Parliament is just a council chamber in Europe

— Kenneth Clarke

In baseball, you can't tell the players without a scorecard, but in political commentary, you need a metaphor.

— Florence King

That job should not be a political job. We should not be hearing very publicly from the leader of the FBI.

— Pam Bondi

“The health care bill is nothing about health care- it's about controlling the people.”

— David Lincoln

There's really a fundamental political corruption problem that put Washington completely out of touch with the people.

— Cal Cunningham

Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose, and terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political…

— Al Franken

The enemy isn't conservatism. The enemy isn't liberalism. The enemy is bulls**t.

— Lars-Erik Nelson

There are things we can do to give us a little more attention… I've got to look more frantic.

— Anonymous

Paradoxically, just at the point when racist attitudes were declining in society and many ethnic groups were integrating successfully, our political leaders…

— Munira Mirza

If you want to know why Republicans and conservatives are in a political crisis, you need only consider the fact that the…

— John Podhoretz

Unless you reduce the long-term spending burden, you cannot cut taxes in any lasting way, but can only shift the burden of…

— Peter George Peterson

I can't tell you what it's like to be in Europe, for example, to be talking about the greatness of America. But…

— George W. Bush

This is true to party tyranny and it locks people in, especially outrageous at this time that people feel like they are…

— Jill Stein

By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and…

— Steven Pinker

We are fascinated with our own history, and we are fascinated with the Romans because they were millennia ago, and yet they…

— Kit Harington

Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means ... the need to be left. I am driven to…

— Kingsley Amis

I have one great political idea. . . . That idea is an old one. It is widely and generally assented to;…

— Frederick Douglass

I wanted to write about the time when science became modern, around the 1950s. Right after physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, science started…

— Hanya Yanagihara

Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone - extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding…

— Benjamin Disraeli

Leon Golub was a painter. He was an artist struggling to make it in the New York City art world, but at…

— Gordon Quinn

Any country is hard to govern, even a very small country. It's not a question of whether the country is large or…

— Vladimir Putin

Hope's Folly is a rapid-fire romp through futuristic political intrigue and high-risk passion The tug of war between decorum and passion keeps…

— Philip K. Jason

Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection…

— Thomas Jefferson

I think, then, there's the sort of, like, political dimension to lyrics. One of the problems that I've had with my output…

— J. Robbins

I'm a little bit of a news political junkie, a little bit of a reader of history.

— David Mandel

I apprehend... that the total abandonment of the principle of rotation in the offices of President and Senator will end in abuse.

— Thomas Jefferson

It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.

— Fareed Zakaria

Often times, political games prevent senators from even beginning to debate some of the most important issues.

— Michael Bennet

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

— George Orwell

Every provisional political set-up following a revolution requires a dictatorship, and an energetic dictatorship at that.

— Karl Marx

I am not a political figure, nor do I want to be one; but I come with my heart.

— Princess Diana

At a time when political correctness is valued over honesty I would also like to say, 'Right on!

— Madonna Ciccone

Unfortunately, most of Congress has little to offer except making noise and knowing how to move up the bloated political chain.

— Robert Blaha

Other people can write grown-up, political plays about the troubles in the world. My plays deal with magic and hope.

— Colman Domingo

As a historian, he felt it his duty to respect everything that had ever been respected, except for the occasional statesman.

— Henry Adams

My father, the political dissident Jaballa Matar, disappeared from his home in Cairo in March 1990.

— Hisham Matar

If you begin by saying, 'Thou shalt not lie,' there is no longer any possibility of political action.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

The information of the people at large can alone make them the safe as they are the sole depositary of our political…

— Thomas Jefferson

I knew most of my radio listeners were lefty political people, and I decided definitively not to be that guy - not…

— Marc Maron

Crime has no party affiliation, yet Republicans have spent generations exploiting it and the fear of it for political gain.

— Jonathan Capehart