Political Quotes · Page 84

From a historical viewpoint, religion is just a kind of superstition, and from a political viewpoint it is a tool of social…

— Mario Bunge

The Arab is trying to be pleased with death and murder and mayhem and disease and poverty and political unrest.

— L. Ron Hubbard

A phone tree isn't an ancient form of political organizing, but you have to call every person.

— Howard Rheingold

I don't think it's the court's perceived role to do some explaining of a political nature.

— Sandra Day O'Connor

To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.

— Calvin Coolidge

I think it's impossible for any of us not to find television, and the political process at its best on television, compelling.

— Peter Jennings

You get so tired of political correctness. I'm noted for speaking out all my career.

— Joe Arpaio

Global warming - utterly disinterested in our political paralysis - worsens at a terrifying pace.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

'Excessive regulation in the banking reform bill will destroy a substantial part of our bond-distributing machinery. Can anyone expect that a step…

— Barry Ritholtz

I probably will have to become more political down the road when my playing days are done, because I'm going to have…

— Tiger Woods

I'm not a political person. When I start to get into it, it just upsets me. I feel so powerless when it…

— Channing Tatum

The same political parties which now agitiate the US have existed through all time. And in fact the terms of whig and…

— Thomas Jefferson

Anarchism is surprisingly effective in solving actual problems largely because anarchists have thought a lot about solving actual problems on a micro…

— David Graeber

Historians are apt to judge war ministers less by the victories achieved under their direction than by the political results which flowed…

— Winston Churchill

Ho Chi Minh sought to defeat both adversaries [French and American] primarily by using diplomatic and political means, combined with paramilitary activities.

— William J. Duiker

If you charge off with some political agenda that is not informed by clarity, you are going to end up with business…

— Terence McKenna

Why I talked about political correctness: the colonial is now such a major taboo that any achievement of the colonial period, or…

— Rem Koolhaas

Recently the country has seen too much of our legislators, seeing them as a gaggle of check-kiting, judge-smearing deadbeats who don't pay…

— George Will

I don't care much about the outcome. I'd like for people to feel better and have better lives, but I don't think…

— George Carlin

“So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid…

— Victor Hugo

It is unnatural that a pure stream should flow from a foul fountain its vices are but a continuation of the vices…

— Thomas Paine

It is well known that my husband and Lady Thatcher enjoyed a very special relationship as leaders of their respective countries during…

— Nancy Reagan

I don't think architecture should be considered as an art form in the first instance. Whenever I say that, it makes people…

— James Polshek

Liberty is the very last idea that seems to occur to anybody, in considering any political or social proposal. It is only…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

We are more and more defined not by our friends but our political enemies - collecting them like badges of honor.

— S.E. Cupp

I realised that a television show on political lampoon was one genre that was missing.

— Cyrus Broacha

Here is one of the first rules of politics: it's not enough that I do well; I must also destroy my enemy.

— Bill Press

He'll likely be remembered as a political figure, but I don't recall Andrew Breitbart ever mentioning electoral politics. It bored him.

— Tucker Carlson

I think political correctness really does help us when it serves us but it doesn't help us when it silences us.

— Margaret Cho

How do you know if you don't measure if you have a system that simply suckles kids through?

— George W. Bush

All political debates, from tax policy to abortion, draw on moral arguments that rest on religious premises.

— Michael J. Knowles

What's the use, there never was a woman living who could understand political ideas.

— John Dos Passos

I can see that in certain political situations you have to use force to overthrow police states.

— Pierre Trudeau

If China don't free up the political side, its economic growth will come to an end - while it is still at…

— Milton Friedman

The media do not set their own investigative agendas independently, but operate as part ... of the political establishment.

— Peter Dale Scott

The winner must promote social jusitce, remove corruption and discrmination, and stand against political, cultural and economic plots.

— Ali Khamenei

All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, 'Something's wrong, let's change it for the…

— Sonia Sanchez

Politicians often misuse science for political ends and to pursue their own agenda.

— Leonard Mlodinow

[Al] Franken is left-wing and funny. He's a pretty good political humorist.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Once you've seen certain things, you can't un-see them, and seeing nothing is as political an act as seeing something.

— Arundhati Roy