Political Quotes · Page 75

Jason McDermott's political career, however bogus, appears to have had an early and promising start.

— Bill Dedman

The typical presidential staff resents the vice-president even more than they do the first lady.

— Dick Morris

There's a social piece to what's going on in the Sugarland world, but we've never been a band that's political, and I…

— Kristian Bush

The difference between congressmen and drunken sailors is that drunken sailors are spending their own money.

— Tom Feeney

You see the ups and downs of political life - one minute you've got a job the next minute you're thrown out.

— Lindsay Hoyle

I've never made a political donation to Hillary Clinton or any other political candidate.

— Bill Browder

I've voted in every election - not always for the same political party and never with any degree of enthusiasm.

— Tom Stoppard

I'm pretty political when it comes to human rights and things like that.

— Peter Krause

I want people to know my political point of view. There's an appetite for that, almost an expectation. I also want to…

— Seth Meyers

When President Nixon said that the American people don't want their foreign policy dictated from the street, unfortunately, he said the most…

— Allard K. Lowenstein

A large part of running for president is intense scrutiny on personal history and political records. But once you're in office, that…

— Jamelle Bouie

I know of no example in time or place of a society that has been marked by a large measure of political…

— Milton Friedman

Sexism has always been a political stance mediating social domination, enabling white men and black men to share a common sensibility about…

— Bell Hooks

I remember Stanley Benn remarking that one needed to be a certain age to engage with problems in political philosophy - I…

— John Kleinig

A child can go only so far in life without potty training. It is not mere coincidence that six of the last…

— Dave Barry

The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes…

— Noam Chomsky

Let me name three of the people who influenced me, although it's definitely not a complete list. Ayesha Jalal, the formidable Pakistani-American…

— Steve Inskeep

The stupidity of the average man will permit the oligarch, whether economic or political, to hide his real purposes from the scrutiny…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Communism is not a political party nor a political plan under the Constitution; it is a system of government that is the…

— David O. McKay

Part of what you need to understand is that we're forced to look back. You had the importation of third world or…

— Van Jones

We often imagine that the court serves as a sort of neutral umpire controlling the warring political branches. But this is mostly…

— Noah Feldman

His Majesty's Government views with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their…

— Arthur Balfour

The political terms 'will' and 'popular will' have a long track record in Western history going back to Rousseau. That record is…

— John Leo

The personal qualities necessary for attaining office are practically the opposite of those demanded by the office itself. The trouble with the…

— James P. Hogan

When a man once gets a start holding office, it is nearly always necessary to finally choke him off.

— E. W. Howe

Citizens United provided unprecedented political weaponry to big special interests. My personal view was it was calculated to do that.

— Sheldon Whitehouse

I may have a lot of political opinions but it doesn't necessarily come into my work. I keep the two worlds separate.

— Robert Barry

I think that behind the scenes the Pope [Francis] is seen as more of a religious figure, but obviously he is sort…

— Joy-Ann Reid

I don't think you want political parties that are entirely driven by some extremely doctrinal ideology.

— William Kristol

The Family is the oldest and arguably most influential religious political organization in Washington.

— Jeff Sharlet

It was all to do with the change of producer as well as political reasons I don't really comprehend.

— Louise Jameson

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

— Thomas Merton

“What is the Third Estate? Everything. What has it been hitherto in the political order? Nothing. What does it desire to be?…

— Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès

When people know there's going to be something silly they allow you the space to be political.

— Omid Djalili

You saw the president yesterday. I thought he was very forward-leaning, as they say in diplomatic nuanced circles.

— George W. Bush

I was forced to be political because I had bombs falling on me as a child in Tehran.

— Shervin Pishevar

While offering economic continuity, Common Market 2.0 would mean we leave the political institutions of the E.U.

— Nick Boles

The United States provides Israel with crucial security and economic aid and invaluable political backing in the international arena.

— Ehud Olmert

Confronted with economic problems, politicians always blame the private sector first ... [even] blaming the problem on the solution.

— Richard L. Gordon

What a terrible world it would be if we only did films that were poster boards for political causes.

— Alex Gibney