Political Quotes · Page 82

I almost never listen to radio or watch political talk shows, especially if I happen to be on them.

— Bret Stephens

A political and economic system that only works for a small group at the top is a system that needs to change.

— Gavin Esler

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain't going.

— Abbie Hoffman

If tolerance and kindness and acceptance and love are political, then I guess I am political.

— Karen Fairchild

The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.

— Anonymous

When people access the use of force for the threat of violence they have, by definition, a new political power. An unwanted…

— Cody Wilson

I lived as best I could, and then I died. Be careful where you step: the grave is wide.

— Michael R. Burch

My top priority for 2012 will be to make a renewed push for women's economic empowerment and political participation.

— Michelle Bachelet

Congressional Republicans are dismantling the limited environmental protections initiated by Richard Nixon, who would be something of a dangerous radical in today's…

— Noam Chomsky

When you get to political machines that can control a state, then you're really into organized crime - almost. You're fighting a…

— Frank Capra

Most of what needs to be changed in the euro zone can be done without treaty changes. The demand for treaty change…

— Nick Clegg

I'm very much a believer that it's action that matters much more so than, you know, the flurry of political promises and…

— Christine Lagarde

I was the bohemian in my family, the "this is my favorite shoe and I don't care if it has tape around…

— Erykah Badu

I call the present system 'Post-Constitutional America.' As I sometimes put it, the U.S. Constitution poses no serious threat to our form…

— Joseph Sobran

This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity,…

— Christopher Dawson

I'm not involved in politics, and I've never had any political role. I've never been in office. I've never taken any public…

— Isabel dos Santos

Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political…

— Marquis de Sade

In his address of 19 September 1796, given as he prepared to leave office, President George Washington spoke about the importance of…

— George Washington

The constitutional right of free expression... is designed and intended to remove governmental restraints from the arena of public discussion, putting the…

— John Marshall Harlan II

These little books I write, such as The End of Freedom, about the post-9/11 political climate in the United States, sell in…

— Gore Vidal

The Chinese describe themselves as political refugees. Many base that claim on China's strict population laws, which allow them to have only…

— Ed Koch

Lenelle Moïse's poems render the abstract - policy, disaster, history, diaspora - specific. Her words make the political not just personal, but…

— Erin McKeown

That was a brave and principled thing for Ecuador to do [give me asylum application]. Now we have the U.S. election [campaign],…

— Julian Assange

Naturally, the common people don't want war ... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy,…

— Hermann Goring

What's the meaning of "giornalista professionista"? I have always thought a professional to be a good prostitute!

— William C. Brown

I'm entitled to my political opinions, and I get to vote because I'm an American.

— David Mamet

It would be nice to spend billions on schools and roads, but right now that money is desperately needed for political ads.

— Andy Borowitz

After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.

— George C. Wallace

Men who teach only men are called scholars. Women who teach only women are called political agitators.

— Dale Spender

Political parties usually try to lay low or provide effective responses to the opposite party's convention.

— Mollie Hemingway

Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could.

— Lord Mountbatten

Herein indeed consists the excellence of the English government, that all parts of it form a mutual check upon each other.

— William Blackstone

I am not entering politics to be another Knesset member. If I enter the political arena I want to be prime minister.…

— Ami Ayalon

The Norwegian response to violence is more democracy, more openness and greater political participation,

— Jens Stoltenberg

Faction is to party what the superlative is to the positive. Party is a political evil, and faction is the worst of…

— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

Don't you get the idea I'm one of those goddam radicals. Don't get the idea I'm knocking the American system.

— Al Capone

The judiciary must be strengthened and released from political interference.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Inspiration is an underexamined part of political life and presidential leadership.

— George Packer

I would hope to inspire in my listeners a feeling of freedom - of speech, thought and political activity.

— John Hall

It is clear from Salman Rushdie's writing that politics and literature cannot be separated. Everything is political.

— Amitava Kumar