Political Quotes · Page 69

There are simple answers to the nation's problems, but not easy ones.

— Ronald Reagan

I don't control the political world.

— Stephen A. Schwarzman

Political parties exist to get bums on seats.

— Marta Andreasen

Nobody gets to threaten the full faith and credit of the United States just to extract political concessions.

— Barack Obama

Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness…

— Bernard Levin

The average person that works every day for a living gets kind of tired of the political system. Nothing seems to change…

— Bob Backlund

Minorities have never been given their rights. They have always had to wage a political and legal battle to win them.

— Gloria Allred

So are we still trying to end racial politics or are there just too many advantages to some political parties for that?

— Frank J. Fleming

The rich have grown richer, but their tax rate has declined. The poor have grown poorer, but their taxes have increased.

— Michael Parenti

When the private sector fails, the solution is more government. When the government fails, the solution is more government.

— Glenn Reynolds

Deliberation is not a particular type of speech, but a political act of collective decision-making in consideration of consequences.

— F. David Mathews

Most revolutionaries are potential Tories, because they imagine that everything can be put right by altering the shape of society; once that…

— George Orwell

I really love that I'm giving myself the opportunity finally to not have the pressure of every single song you do having…

— Kathleen Hanna

If our expectations, if our fondest prayers and dreams, are not realized then we should all bear in mind that the greatest…

— Nelson Mandela

Either we start cutting the government and shrinking the size of government, or else we're going to face the political wrath of…

— Marlin Stutzman

I hate to speak for the whole society, but I will. I'm a journalist, it's my job. There's been something of a…

— Dave Barry

There can be no unified southeastern Europe without Yugoslavia, and everything else is a continuation of political blackmail with which the Serb…

— Ivica Dacic

One of the difficult things, especially about blogging, is that you put all of your personal out there, into the political. And…

— Jessica Valenti

What is true of Mr. Mill's influence on the women's-suffrage question is true also of the other political movements in which he…

— Millicent Fawcett

Political dissension is doubtless a less evil than the lethargy of despotism: but still it is a great evil, and it would…

— Thomas Jefferson

My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan,…

— Camille Paglia

The second item in the liberal creed, after self-righteousness, is unaccountability. Liberals have invented whole college majors--psychology, sociology, women's studies--to prove that…

— Anonymous

Muhammad professed to derive from Heaven, and he has inserted in the Koran, not only a body of religious doctrines, but political…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Were I to make the announcement and to run, the reasons I would run is because I have a great belief in…

— Edward Kennedy

Are we all clear that we want to build something that can aspire to be a world power? In other words, not…

— Romano Prodi

“I have always thought that in revolutions, especially democratic revolutions, madmen, not those so called by courtesy, but genuine madmen, have played…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

A lot of people voted for Trump because of the promises he made around jobs. And so it's a failed political strategy…

— Naomi Klein

Self-determination means the political and economic status of Hong Kong should be freely determined by the Hong Kong people.

— Joshua Wong

Republican democracy is overperfect and demands political virtues and talents far superior to our own.

— Simon Bolivar

I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view.

— Margaret Atwood

“Gustav's art isn't political," I said. "You of all people should know that." "All art is political. You of all people should…

— Elizabeth Hickey

It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.

— Barbara Kingsolver

My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.

— Indira Gandhi

Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.

— Walter Lippmann

I reject the notion that Boston is a city hopelessly divided by neighborhood, income level or political outlook.

— Michelle Wu

Across the continent, political divisions are deepening. For all of these reasons, the specter of a euro zone collapse has not been…

— Barry Eichengreen

I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.

— Joe Biden

The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy.

— Bashar al-Assad

The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political

— Adrienne Rich

For me, it all comes down to one issue: if we can get money out of political systems, the whole world will…

— Steven Van Zandt