Political Quotes · Page 80

I am not a political figure. The fact is I am a humanitarian figure and always will be.

— Princess Diana

I hate cowardice; I will have nothing to do with cowards or political nonsense.

— Swami Vivekananda

I have no political ambitions whatsoever. My ambitions are all about what XL can become.

— Mike McGavick

Compassion is not a dirty word.. it's time we rehabilitated compassion into the national political vocabulary of this great nation of ours.

— Kevin Rudd

I don't approve of political jokes; I have seen too many of them get elected.

— Jon Stewart

An extraordinarily precocious mind, a political free thinker, who towered above his political contemporaries in Germany.

— Franz Mehring

Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.

— Milton Friedman

I think hip-hop has always been political because this is a community that doesn't have any other choice.

— Ari Melber

We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as…

— John le Carre

If you are writing something in which you are really involved, you don't even need to think about it any longer. The…

— Simone de Beauvoir

When I ran for governor in 2016, we shook up the political establishment - then cut more than a billion dollars in…

— Doug Burgum

Conservative Denyers and Delayers are the main reason America lacks the consensus and the political will to take up the fight against…

— Joseph J. Romm

In post-Vietnam, post-Watergate America, skeptical voters demand full disclosure of everything from candidates' finances to their medical records, and spin-savvy accounts of…

— Virginia Postrel

All of the American's foreign wars have been fought with foes either too weak to resist them or too heavily engaged elsewhere…

— H. L. Mencken

I can't marry myself to one idea or one form of doing politics or one form of understanding politics. I believe that…

— Bocafloja

Sometimes coincidentally an unintelligent person can accomplish a task but that does not mean that he is a knower of means and…

— Chanakya

The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

[A] family with two kids that earns the minimum wage still lives below the poverty line. That's wrong. That's why, since the…

— Barack Obama

When I hear myself speak French, I look at myself differently. Certain aspects will feel closer to the way I feel or…

— Francois Arnaud

Some folks ask me what the transition was like from NASCAR reporter to political reporter. It's easy. In one, you try to…

— Mary Katharine Ham

Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it. Thus if, for any reason whatsoever, moral…

— Margaret Halsey

What happened on "As Cool As I Am" was, you know how in the '90s, "the personal is political, the political is…

— Dar Williams

The American Fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact… They cultivate hate and distrust of both…

— Henry A. Wallace

Trump's not showing up and trying to politely insert himself in political system and the way politicians do things. He's not trying…

— Rush Limbaugh

I stand for all people even if it causes me political heartburn - and I'm going to do that no matter what…

— Nina Turner

What is frustrating people, me included, is that democratic action affects elections but what we get then from political leaders is greenwash.

— James Hansen

Another plague upon the land, as devastating as the locusts God loosed on the Egyptians, is 'Political Correctness.'

— Charlton Heston

Our flag is not just one of many political points of view. Rather, the flag is a symbol of our national unity.

— Adrian Cronauer

The best thing about this group of candidates is that only one of them can win.

— Will Rogers

Anytime you want to get into religious or political views, that can instantly polarize people.

— Harrison Barnes

They worry one another like mastiffs, scrambling for rank and pay like apes for nuts.

— John Adams

One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.

— Anonymous

On health care, virtually every political error that could be made was made.

— Sidney Blumenthal

We will allow private and religious groups to compete to provide services in every federal, state and local social program.

— George W. Bush

Sanity is not statistical - Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad.

— Winston Smith

He was one of the few political leaders I have ever met whose public speeches revealed more than his private conversations. [On…

— Gerald R. Ford

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

— Brooks Atkinson

What can I do to help? I am asking my senator to support political action to end hunger in the greatest country…

— Martin Landau

Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.

— Aminatta Forna

There's no such thing as legacies. At least, there is a legacy, but I'll never see it.

— George W. Bush