Political Quotes · Page 35

It's much more fun to run a political campaign than it is to be the candidate.

— Hunter S. Thompson

It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.

— Fareed Zakaria

Music can be a distraction and an escape. Sometimes a welcome escape. You need it. But music can also serve a very…

— Howard Zinn

The crucial role communists played in organizing industrial unions in the 1930s and struggling for social reforms, peace, and civil rights strengthened…

— Michael Parenti

I think the federal Liberals' micro-tinkering is not causing any kind of upsurge in public confidence. The challenge for Conservatives is how…

— Preston Manning

Candidates who win while spending less than their opponents still usually have to spend quite a lot. While not a surefire guarantor…

— Michael Parenti

The energy I was sensing in audiences was political energy, as much as anything else.

— Michael Pollan

Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted.

— John Ruskin

You don't have to be a political genius to sniff the smell of blood in the water.

— Rich Galen

When you go to a church and you see the pastor of that church with a philosophy and a program that's designed…

— Malcolm X

All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature…

— Enoch Powell

Governments should encourage and facilitate the teaching of history, but one does not want them to be able to dictate, for political…

— Linda Colley

In Stalin each [Soviet bureaucrat] easily finds himself. But Stalin also finds in each one a small part of his own spirit.…

— Leon Trotsky

President Obama has a good sense not just of the economic requisites for financial crisis firefighting but also how you build political…

— Lael Brainard

My objective is that before the end of the millennium Europe should have a true federation. The Commission should become a political…

— Jacques Delors

Sometimes coincidentally an unintelligent person can accomplish a task but that does not mean that he is a knower of means and…

— Chanakya

In Northern Ireland, people said there would never be a solution. But once people begin to have the political will and force…

— Mairead Corrigan

Government interference with the economic process represents a substitution of political for consumer objectives.

— Sheldon Richman

Presidential primary debates are an important part of our political process. But the media has wrested complete control from the parties and…

— Mark McKinnon

Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain…

— James Madison

When I say 'hip-hop is dead,' basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead.

— Nas

This world is divided roughly into three kinds of nations: those that spend lots of money to keep their weight down; those…

— David Landes

The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the…

— Wendell Berry

To me, economics doesn't need to be political.

— Trish Regan

The backwardness of our religious and social developments is undoubtedly holding back the development of the intellectual and political levels.

— Carroll Quigley