Political Quotes · Page 30

You should avoid making yourself too clear even in your explanations.

— Baltasar Gracian

Let me put it to you this way, I am not a revengeful person.

— George W. Bush

A political place with no power, only influence, is not to my taste.

— Ellen Swallow Richards

Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.

— H. L. Mencken

Voting is the foundation stone for political action.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I'm driven by issues, not driven to be political.

— Kevin McCloud

All growth, including political growth, is the result of risk-taking.

— Jude Wanniski

“Corporate greed controls political will.”

— Aaron B. Powell

I mean, the thing is, is that Britain has got a great tradition of irreverent political satire.

— Ash Sarkar

The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country.

— Learned Hand

The Republicans may be better off without an agenda. They don't scare people.

— Bill Schneider

Most of the time, when their standard-bearers can't close the deal with the voting public, American political parties move on.

— Jamelle Bouie

Some of us do not accept the Establishment myth that bad laws must be obeyed.

— Tom Driberg

A movie isn't a political movement, a party or even an article. It's just a film. At best it can add its…

— Ken Loach

I was raised in the West. The west of Texas. It's pretty close to California. In more ways than Washington, D.C., is…

— George W. Bush

We cannot put cinema in parallel with the political, because politics are something dirty and cinema is not dirty.

— Ali Suliman

Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and…

— Baron de Montesquieu

Rights are either God-given as part of the divine plan, or they are granted by government as part of the political plan.…

— Ezra Taft Benson

The thing I love about political interviews is, if you're really prepared, you can make great headway because these are the people…

— Soledad O'Brien

When you pay for something, it's not just buying something from the store. You are actually supporting the political and economic structures…

— Severn Cullis-Suzuki

I don't think political reform is likely to succeed. [Senators Tom] Udall and [Ron] Wyden, on the intelligence committee, have been sounding…

— Edward Snowden

“Most politicians are corrupt as they do not represent the masses that voted for them, but rather they choose to return numerous…

— Steven Magee

Of course, political leaders are much more ambitious than gangsters. The latter are content to take your money, whereas the former, besides…

— Robert Higgs

There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I write some art criticism, and one thing that's clear to me is that politics is fashionable in the American art world…

— Katie Kitamura

The scientists are virtually screaming from the rooftops now. The debate is over! There's no longer any debate in the scientific community…

— Al Gore

I do have strong convictions and political opinions, but I don't think it's necessary to imbue my photographic work with them. I…

— Michael Kenna

There are several dozen political prisoners in Russia. When I cite that number people are often very surprised. They often think there…

— Masha Gessen

[Camillo] Berneri proposed that the anarchists should link up with the effort of Northern Africa to overthrow the Spanish government, carry out…

— Noam Chomsky

The fact is that the two years or so after 9/11 were a terrible time in America – a time of political…

— Paul Krugman

What I'm suggesting is we are going to look back, and we're going to see what happened in Syria, and we're going…

— Anne-Marie Slaughter

Abraham Lincoln did not shoot John Wilkes Booth. Titanic did not sink a North Atlantic iceberg. And Fox News is neither fair…

— Keith Olbermann

Always I have lived with two sounds - one political, one musical.

— Mikis Theodorakis

I'm fascinated by political enthusiasm.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Nobody wants a judge to be subject to the political whim of the moment.

— Stephen Breyer

All of my political career, I've fought for the taxpayers.

— Tom Price

“Oppression is the seed of power; you will plant it against yourself”

— Kamaran Ihsan Salih

I will have a foreign-handed foreign policy.

— George W. Bush

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.

— Pierre Boulez

The middle of the road is for yellow lines and dead armadillos.

— Jim Hightower