Political Quotes · Page 88

But I think it's quite clear in my work that my orientation isn't political or doesn't come out of modern politics.

— Jane Campion

That wall, embodied in the First Amendment, is perhaps America's most important contribution to political progress on this planet.

— Lowell P. Weicker, Jr

In the 1820s, westerners and political outsiders worried that rich men in the east had commandeered the government for their own ends.

— Heather Cox Richardson

It's no use trying to talk philosophy to our politicians. And I'm not a moral or political philosopher. I'm not interested in…

— Marjorie Grene

Better to be the architect of something you can endorse than the placard waving protagonist standing in the rain.

— Mr. Wrestling

Americans are being attacked nationwide because of their party affiliation and political ideology.

— Vernon Jones

The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or…

— Thomas Jefferson

Political positions do not belong to the officeholder; they belong to the people that place us in office.

— Aja Brown

I'd like to get back into journalism. I'm hoping someone will offer me a job as a commentator or one of those…

— Jeff Gannon

Without forgiveness, there is no future. Forgiveness is not nebulous, impractical and idealistic. It's thoroughly realistic. It's real political in the long…

— Desmond Tutu

There is a time for everything, also for my time in politics which has been long and eventful. Now I believe it…

— Johanna Siguroardottir

You're falling into the trap of believing everything that's in the political handbook, and at the top of the list it says…

— Rush Limbaugh

Manchester is a city which has witnessed a great many stirring episodes, especially of a political character. Generally speaking, its citizens have…

— Emmeline Pankhurst

Democrats, overpaid celebrities, the mainstream media that are so lazy, they are willing to endanger your lives, gamble with your life to…

— Sean Hannity

It belongs to American liberty to separate entirely the institution which has for its object the support and diffusion of religion from…

— Francis Lieber

It seems foolhardy to assume that the armed state will necessarily be benevolent. The American political tradition is, for good or ill,…

— Sanford Levinson

If the men of the Middle Ages... lived in filth and discomfort, it was not for any lack of ability to change…

— Aldous Huxley

Sometimes during a conversation with a journalist - where you are answering things you never normally talk about, not even with some…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

Only in my case, when my presidency ends, I will go back to my home industrial city town, 800 meters from my…

— Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

What has happened here [aftermath of 9/11] is not war in its traditional sense. This is clearly a crime against humanity. War…

— Benjamin B. Ferencz

Liberalism is that principle of political rights, according to which the public authority, in spite of being all-powerful, limits itself and attempts,…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

So the city became the material expression of a particular loss of innocence – not sexual or political innocence but somehow a…

— Thomas Pynchon

he issue of inequality in this country [USA], and the ways that money has captured our political system, are serious indicators of…

— Cynthia Kauffman

When I look at the Republicans, I am tempted to dismiss them as the Treason Party. Seriously, were a band of traitors…

— Neil Steinberg

Protest is political. It is as political as what our conception of America is.

— DeRay Mckesson

If you look at things historically, Kanye West has really represented the battering ram against political correctness.

— Candace Owens

Government," says Swift, "is a plain thing, and fitted to the capacity of many heads.

— Thomas Paine

Many science people feel groups like WHO are there to do a job and not to be dealt with in a political…

— Gerhard Herzberg

Afghanistan's borders are arbitrary, drawn to meet 19th-century political needs rather than to respect ethnic or religious patterns.

— Stephen Kinzer

We are not here for political reasons, we are here for sport, to fight for positions. That's the good thing about Formula…

— Felipe Massa

I am not one who - who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.

— George H. W. Bush

An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise.

— Kate Smith

We Americans love to cite the 'political spectrum' as the best way to classify ideologies. The metaphor is incorrect: it implies symmetry.

— Rick Perlstein

It is important that South Africans of all political persuasions be represented in Parliament.

— Cyril Ramaphosa

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

— Henry Adams

Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.

— Barbara Mertz

Over the years, the tax code has become a vehicle for political favoritism and social engineering.

— Bill Bradley

That worst evil of long dictatorships: the loss of all political experience.

— James Cameron

There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other…

— Mark Twain