Political Quotes · Page 43

The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.…

— James F. Cooper

The one thing government has which we (you or I or any corporation) DON'T have, is the ability to use deadly force…

— Neal Boortz

Mr. Ware has no right to discharge any of his laborers on account of their political opinion.

— Charles E. Merrill

Islam has some of the best defenses against other god viruses and has the potential to be more parasitically aggressive when consolidating…

— Darrel Ray

I cannot stand forward, and give praise or blame to any thing which relates to human actions, and human concerns, on a…

— Edmund Burke

The first black president will be a politician who is black.

— Douglas Wilder

If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its…

— Leon Trotsky

Conservatism is the policy of make no change and consult your grandmother when in doubt.

— Woodrow Wilson

A cult is a religion with no political power.

— Tom Wolfe

Religion is a set of social and political institutions and spirituality is a private pursuit which may or may not take place…

— D. Patrick Miller

Unless you're willing to fight and refight the same battles until you go blue in the face, drive the people you work…

— Bill Moyers

Our [Russia]documents have gone on to be used in quite a number of court cases: refugee cases of people fleeing some kind…

— Julian Assange

I think our former first lady said it last month in one of her first speeches since leaving the White House, I…

— Andrew Zimmern

I have been attacked in Turkey more for my interviews than for my books. Political polemicists and columnists do not read novels…

— Orhan Pamuk

The Chinese government since 1979 has been very successful in economic development, and successful enough, simply by surviving, in the realm of…

— Anonymous

[In politics] no good deed goes unpunished

— Clare Boothe Luce

The parties of Whig and Tory are those of nature. They exist in all countries, whether called by these names or by…

— Thomas Jefferson

Ambition, and Covetousnesse are Passions that are perpetually incumbent, and pressing.

— Thomas Hobbes

I propose in the following discussion to call one's own labor, and the equivalent exchange of one's own labor for the labor…

— Franz Oppenheimer

Music is one of those things that brings great joy to people, singing is a sort of unifier of people, no matter…

— Brian Viglione

I don't see myself as a political figure.

— Conchita Wurst

“I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute; where no Catholic prelate would tell the President…

— John F. Kennedy

Basically [United States and France] said "We will use nuclear weapons whenever it suits our purposes to do so." So this expansion…

— John Burroughs

What we face is a comprehensive contraction of our activities, due to declining fossil fuel resources and other growing scarcities. Our failure…

— James Howard Kunstler

I stand for all people even if it causes me political heartburn - and I'm going to do that no matter what…

— Nina Turner