Political Quotes · Page 74

In the current climate, things that are true, brave human stories become political.

— Cate Blanchett

I wouldn't say I'm a political junkie. I follow it. I read a few articles every day.

— Danny Strong

I think we Americans, of all people, understand the importance of a good, legal, constitutional framework as the basis of political life.

— Paul Bremer

In a political struggle of class against class, organization of trade unions is the most important weapon.

— Friedrich Engels

I love Mikhail Bulgakov. He is very original and takes the story to unexpected places. I didn't realise political writing could be…

— Denise Mina

I'd love to say that I could write political songs, but I don't feel clued-up enough.

— Paloma Faith

Candor and accountability in a democracy is very important. Hypocrisy has no place.

— Alan Dershowitz

I had to learn to navigate the political and religious currents in a state where Mormonism dominates despite not being Mormon.

— Ron Stallworth

The stage of the development of the productive forces determines the political and ideological superstructure of society which are crystallized into a…

— Earl Browder

I don't have all these advisers, political advisers. I don't even talk to them because I'm not a slave to a campaign…

— Joe Arpaio

Political ideas that have dominated the public mind for decades cannot be refuted through rational arguments. They must run their course in…

— Ludwig von Mises

I'm not going to be bullied or pushed around by the group of the day. You've got to have political courage. You've…

— Madeleine M. Kunin

When women turn on women, and take cheap shots at their decisions purely to score political points it serves as proof that…

— Anonymous

We want to be absolutely clear to the people what we are about. No backroom deals whatsoever and we're not going to…

— John McDonnell

Donald Trump loves America. He wants it to be the greatest place on earth. He thinks political people have made it the…

— Rush Limbaugh

I appreciate that question because I, in the state of Texas, had heard a lot of discussion about a faith-based initiative eroding…

— George W. Bush

Heterosexuality is a die-hard custom through which male-supremacist institutions insure their own perpetuity and control over us. Women are kept, maintained and…

— Cheryl Clarke

By all means, let's have free trade and no trade barriers and a common market. But where did it all suddenly become…

— Lloyd Dorfman

I do not believe that it is necessarily the duty of the writer to give a voice to his community. If a…

— Wole Soyinka

There is a small minority of well-educated people with relatively sensible views on economics, and an extremely tiny minority of economists with…

— Bryan Caplan

What does it really mean to be a leftist in the early part of the 21st century? What are we really talking…

— Cornel West

If you don't put the spiritual and religious dimension into our political conversation, you won't be asking the really big and important…

— Larry Brilliant

You see sort of the difference in the way that Marco Rubio was talking in that kind of way. That kind of…

— Donald Trump

So now the question is, basically, right now, how will the Osama Bin Laden tape affect the election? And I have a…

— Walter Cronkite

“The presuming social view that mental health is not as serious as the media says it is, blocks progress. This too is…

— Tamara Hill, MS

We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the…

— J. C. Watts

I love history because when you strip away the social and political aspects, it's really just a bunch of fun stories.

— Duff Goldman

A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination.

— David Horowitz

What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving.

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

We've got a deeply flawed political system with an insane overreaching extremist element, with a Supreme Court that is completely loony.

— Lizz Winstead

A lot of songs we've written have been political, but they're also personally political.

— Curt Smith

Despite the frequent use of coal miners as a potent political symbol, coal jobs are disappearing - and they're not coming back.

— Tom Steyer

Decide on some imperfect Somebody and you will win, because the truest truism in politics is: You can't beat Somebody with Nobody.

— William Safire

We are not going to waste our reserves and burn them for any political ambitions. We will act very carefully.

— Vladimir Putin

In political, strategic as well as economic and commercial areas, Singapore has become a fulcrum for India's policies east of India.

— Subrahmanyam Jaishankar

You know, if you find a person that you've never seen before getting in a crop-duster that doesn't belong to you, report…

— George W. Bush

The political spirit is the great force in throwing the love of truth and accurate reasoning into a secondary place.

— John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn

I know the media likes to personalize political debates, and I know the government will demonize me.

— Edward Snowden

We have retained the forms and phrases of a republic, but in reality we are living under an oligarchy, not of courtesan,…

— Frank Chodorov

I would like to offer a candidate to be added to the venerable list of English collective nouns: a scum of politicians.

— John P. Wheeler III