Political Quotes · Page 27

People say law but they mean wealth.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have not the smarts or patience for political office.

— Henry Rollins

I wouldn't say that I'm a naturally political beast.

— Claire Danes

Architecture is definitely a political act.

— Peter Eisenman

That realm is never long in quiet, where the ruler is a soldier.

— John Webster

The heck with political correctness. I've never believed in it.

— Bobby Bowden

Protection and patriotism are reciprocal.

— John C. Calhoun

What shall we do about the Abortion Bill?" A: "Pay it!

— Pierre Trudeau

I was raised to be a very strong and independent woman without anybody ever saying the word feminist or having any political…

— Kellyanne Conway

Politics are not unlike war. Sometimes it is necessary to shoot from the hip.

— Jesse H. Jones

The Hippocratic Oath says do no harm. It's the Hypocritical Oath that says do no harm to one's political future.

— Mark McKinnon

We need to change the power structure in America, we need to end the political oligarchy.

— Bernie Sanders

Sadly the job security of lawyers has been ruined, so they are less willing to defend political defendants.

— Shirin Ebadi

It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes.

— Joseph Stalin

Reaping political dividends out of tragedies is deeply engrained in the Congress' DNA.

— Piyush Goyal

You're not a human till you're in my phone book. There. My hat is now in the political ring.

— Bill Hicks

I started out writing largely about my own sex life, but I always tried to bring that around to the bigger picture,…

— Rachel Kramer Bussel

Corporate polluters, their phony think tanks and political toadies like to marginalize environmentalists as tree huggers, or radicals. But there is nothing…

— Robert F. Kennedy, Jr

Some suggested over the weekend that it is wrong to expect Elian Gonzalez to live in a place that tolerates no dissent…

— Katie Couric

You can't let a candidate run for too long. He will be dragged along, cut apart, put back together and ripped to…

— Peer Steinbruck

No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture; but modern history is not a very…

— Learned Hand

Christ was crucified because he threatened the tonal of the time. He was killed because he threatened the established order of the…

— Frederick Lenz

Also, rights are not things that are given in the heavens. Rather, they are levers for political articulations, which enables what was…

— Simon Critchley

We need a reform of the Security Council. It must be perceived as truly representative by all the 191 member states, to…

— Anna Lindh

These strengths, and our civilization in general, have reached an apogee with the end of the apocalyptic threats of the Cold War…

— Arthur Demarest

Quincy [Jones] is one of the greatest world figures, of all-time. I mean he's up there with Muhammad Ali, as far as…

— Robert Davi

A funny thing happened to the First Amendment on its way to the public forum. According to the Supreme Court, money is…

— Robert Reich

I have to be honest and say members of both political parties have contributed to de-legitimization of the process. Even President Barack…

— Martha Minow

I am afraid that I think both the near future environmental reality and political landscape are not looking good - and they…

— Annie Leonard

“Let no one ever intimidate you, you are standing on no one's ground. But again, some have claimed the earth as their…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

Virtually all political discourse in the days of my youth was devoted to the ferreting out of hypocrisy... Because they were hypocrites,…

— Neal Stephenson

To understand political power right, and derive it from its original, we must consider, what state all men are naturally in, and…

— John Locke

I've never been involved in any kind of political movement.

— Issey Miyake

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

— Anonymous

I'm not running for political office.

— Anita Bryant

All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.

— August Wilson

I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.

— Frances McDormand

Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.

— Mao Zedong

Wild men, screaming through the keyholes.

— David Lloyd George

Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting.

— Rich Lowry