If leadership is about listening, the great political speeches would have been a little different. — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
The great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions. — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The prime minister of Israel is welcome to speak in the United States, obviously. But we don't want to see this turned… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
The great political tragedy of our time is that conservative leaders in America have chosen to use their superior messaging and political… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
I continue to believe when I said in Hanover, that the E.U. remains one of the world's great political and economic achievements,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Every great political campaign rewrites the rules; devising a new way to win is what gives campaigns a comparative advantage against their… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Ideologies - isms which to the satisfaction of their adherents can explain everything and every occurence by deducing it from a single… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
I would say that my great political awakening was really born on Okinawa, reading Albert Camus: the "Neither Victims nor Executioners" essay… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable on and championing the… — Barbara Olson Copy Share Image
The two great political parties of the nation have existed for the purpose, each in accordance with its own principles, of undertaking… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
History shows us that the people who end up changing the world - the great political, social, scientific, technological, artistic, even sports… — John Eliot Copy Share Image
The 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance. The growth of democracy; the growth of corporate power;… — Alex Carey Copy Share Image
I can remember certain Manchester United defeats the way most people remember family bereavements or great political events. The four-nil drubbing by… — Tom Dunne Copy Share Image
With a novelist's sense of drama and a historian's understanding of the social forces that shape our lives, Tom Gjelten has captured… — Ronald Steel Copy Share Image
If I wrote at all, I must throw myself headlong into the great political maelstrom, and would of course be swallowed up… — Jane Swisshelm Copy Share Image
Elections, especially of representatives and counselors, should be annual, there not being in the whole circle of the sciences a maxim more… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I have one great political idea. . . . That idea is an old one. It is widely and generally assented to;… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I mean, in the campaign of '24 and in '28 and '32, you know, Eleanor Roosevelt insists that women have equal floor… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
"War," says Machiavelli, "ought to be the only study of a prince;" and by a prince he means every sort of state,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Upon my arrival in the United States the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention; and… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Now the good of political life is a great political good. It is not a secular good specified by a comprehensive doctrine… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
That great political idea, sanctifying freedom and consecrating it to God, teaching men to treasure the liberties of others as their own… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
If you keep on excusing, you eventually give your blessing to the slave camp, to cowardly force, to organized executioners, to the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Because there is no opportunity to act. It is always wise to talk a great deal, discussing what has been done and… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
What conservatives and Republicans must recognize is that the White House has broken with them. What President Bush is doing, and has… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
There was great political uncertainty in South Asia at the time of the Buddha. The older small tribal societies were cracking up… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The leading student of business propaganda, Australian social scientist Alex Carey, argues persuasively that “the 20th century has been characterized by three… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Of the two great political parties which have divided the opinions and feelings of our country, the candid and the just will… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine. — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
Great political leaders risk unpopularity, patiently explain their case and confront prejudice, bigotry and vested interests. — Ann Widdecombe Copy Share Image
English experience indicates that when the two great political parties agree about something it is generally wrong. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I guess I just don't have the killer instinct that I think makes a great political cartoonist. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
It is the intense spirituality of India, and not any great political structure or social organisation that it has developed, that has… — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Copy Share Image
The human being is an unequal creature. That is a fact. And we start off with the proposition. All the great religions,… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
