Political Quotes · Page 87

The current political tension is very serious. We have not yet ruled out a boycott of the election.

— Abhisit Vejjajiva

I understood the importance of doing an Aaron Sorkin film. He's a political filmmaker.

— Jessica Chastain

I've been a political junkie for a long time. I find the way Washington works is just fascinating to me.

— Tony Goldwyn

Political dictatorships take possession not just of money and belongings but of narrative.

— Hisham Matar

When you start attacking cronyism and people's political interests, it gets nasty.

— Charles Koch

Europe has a lot of strength. We need to pool that strength, and I am very much in favour of that -…

— George Papandreou

Only when you don't impose things on it do you get real political theatre.

— John Tiffany

Political power means the capacity to regulate national life through national representatives.

— Mahatma Gandhi

When E.U. governments are able to agree on political and economic policies, they will remain a superpower to influence the Americans, the…

— Kenneth Clarke

Like art, political action gives shape and expression to the things we fear as well as to those we desire. It is…

— Madeleine M. Kunin

The American dream has always depended on the dialogue between the present and the past. In our architecture, as in all our…

— Robert A. M. Stern

People might not protest for overtly political or social causes, but when they can't feed themselves and their family, they will take…

— Marcus Samuelsson

Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities. It calls for taking special care that all…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

If America is to succeed in responding to these 21st Century challenges, our political system cannot continue to bog down in the…

— Chuck Hagel

At the next election he'll offer the British public an alternative that provides weight and substance and seriousness in a political debate…

— Paddy Ashdown

What we heard today was not fiscal leadership from our Commander-in-Chief, what we heard today was a political broadside from our Campaigner-in-Chief.

— Paul Ryan

I believe that the biblical teaching is clear. It always contests political power. It incites to "counterpower," to "positive" criticism, to an…

— Jacques Ellul

The rage for road building is beneficent for America, where vast distance is so main a consideration in our domestic politics andtrade,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There was great political uncertainty in South Asia at the time of the Buddha. The older small tribal societies were cracking up…

— Pankaj Mishra

In a general way, if one cannot attribute to the Jew the whole responsibility of the situation, economic, political, and social, by…

— Chuck Hagel

I'm concerned about the negative aspect of political campaigning in american nation, which is a new phenomenon. When I ran for president…

— Jimmy Carter

The only standard we have for judging all of our social, economic, and political institutions and arrangements as just or unjust, as…

— Mortimer Adler

One of the things that perhaps we can learn through the political process about bringing people together is to remember South Carolina,…

— Tim Scott

In U.S. history, war has served as an important diversionary tactic, causing the people at large to shift their attention away from…

— Robert Higgs

My family helped start [this country], we've been in political life ... since the 1690s, and I have a very possessive sense…

— Gore Vidal

There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think…

— Robert A. Heinlein

I never want to be that guy spouting off my political views. I mean, they're pretty well known, and it certainly comes…

— Patterson Hood

Politics has always been in my music. Anybody who doesn't understand how political "Copperhead Road" is isn't listening very well.

— Steve Earle

Whenever you come across a screw-up this big, you know the government is behind it.

— Ann Coulter

Our public schools are an area where I will be rolling up my sleeves and spending a lot of my time, pushing…

— Michelle Wu

Political correctness is the the inability to state certain truths because they may offend certain people

— Dennis Prager

When you start attacking cronyism and peoples political interests, it gets nasty.

— Charles Koch

The death penalty in the U.S. has become a political tool - and it should never be that.

— Lennie James

I think the political class, just overall, has underestimated the suffering in America.

— Nina Turner

I think it's critical that we return national security issues to the center of the overall political debate in America.

— John Bolton

But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.

— Diane Wakoski

You can stick a fork in Barack Obama. Politically, he's done. The main way we can screw this up is if we…

— Tim Pawlenty

In Texas, we do not hold high expectations for the [governor's] office; it's mostly been occupied by crooks, dorks and the comatose.

— Molly Ivins

I was never informed in advance about the start of the war or about foreign political developments.

— Fritz Sauckel

We've investigated the gun lobby and its political donations and how it spread the Stand Your Ground laws from Florida.

— Clara Jeffery