Political Quotes · Page 90

For the average person walking down a dark street late at night, a promise from a politician is worth far less than…

— James Bovard

With political means and always trying to work for political settlements and this is what I'm going to continue to work on…

— Angela Merkel

“Our politicians always show lame excuse to defend their cripple decisions.”

— Munia Khan

Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out; political passions, never.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit he was a first-rate political economist.

— George Bernard Shaw

Politicians are frightened to death of people who actually believe in liberty.

— Neal Boortz

The trouble with radicals is that they only read radical literature, and the trouble with conservatives is that they don't read anything

— Thomas Nixon Carver

Everywhere in the world there are tensions - economic, political, religious. So we need chocolate.

— Alain Ducasse

Let's get with it, guys: You don't need to hear a Ministry song to get political. You should be political on your…

— Al Jourgensen

[The political establishment] financial resources are virtually unlimited, their political resources are unlimited, their media resources are unmatched, and most importantly, the…

— Donald Trump

Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if…

— John F. Kennedy

If we will not endure a king as a political power, we should not endure a king over the production, transportation, and…

— John Sherman

The political status legislation which emerged in Congress in 1990 and 1991 did not receive the support needed for enactment into law…

— Dick Thornburgh

I sought in political reporting what Galsworthy in another context had called "the significant trifle" - the bit of dialogue, the overlooked…

— I. F. Stone

Being rational - along with being clear and honest - are important if we are to create the needed shift in fundamental…

— Robert Jensen

When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody…

— Franklin P. Adams

It used to be that the working class, broadly speaking - Americans who worked with their hands, who worked in factories, who…

— George Packer

The good thing about Egypt is, between the two World Wars, Egypt was - had a liberal society. It has a political…

— Hisham Melhem

My reporting in Africa wouldn't be political per se, but it's certainly the point of my reporting - and of a lot…

— Sebastian Junger

Any outside use of military power would at best furnish a temporary respite from the processes that we see playing out. We…

— Paul R. Pillar

In the United States, Iran is nothing but a whipping-boy. Few Americans have any real use for Iran. Most of us, what…

— Kenneth M. Pollack

No one must ever let power or social, economic, or political interest turn him or her away from other human beings, from…

— Tariq Ramadan

After multiple trips to Paris and being accused of participating in 'heinous' activities in regard to the state, I found my Romanian…

— Dumitru Tepeneag

I can't really speak to what it was like to call yourself a feminist in the past on a personal level but…

— Julie Zeilinger

The political system loves the extremes, it doesn't so much show a lot love for the moderates.

— Claire McCaskill

As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.

— Steven Pinker

If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

I have no political ambitions; never want to be an MP or MLA or a Rajya Sabha member.

— Jeetendra

I think leadership of any kind requires trust and transparency and voters should demand no less from their political leadership in government.

— Carly Fiorina

I may have my personal political thing, but we never wanted it to stain the show.

— Matt Stone

Is Stephen Harper using the imagined fear of widespread security threats to score political points before the next election?

— Elizabeth May

I don't know how you define 'neoconservatism,' but I think it's associated with trying to spread open political systems and democracy.

— George P. Shultz

What I see increasingly is that companies are playing political roles. We should actually have our research and our laws map that.

— Zephyr Teachout

The idea of legally establishing inalienable, inherent and sacred rights of the individual is not of political but religious origin.

— George Jellinek

The fact that Obama is getting criticism from the left and the right might reflect his understanding of the underlying political dynamics.

— Ron Fournier

All kinds of celebrities, political ones as well, are increasingly being targeted. In this country, with all the countless guns.

— Cesar Romero

As always, imagine how great the press corps would be if it devoted 1/1000th the energy to dissecting non-sex political wrongdoing

— Glenn Greenwald

Damn it all you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.

— Aneurin Bevan

Need' now means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means wanting to keep your own. 'Compassion' is when a politician arranges the transfer.

— Joseph Sobran

It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the…

— Vince Flynn