My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not. — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
I love the best of all the traditions. My discipline is the take-no-prisoners language of good poetry, but a language that actually… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
I believe that political power exercises itself through the mediation of a certain number of institutions which look as if they have… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Confronted with economic problems, politicians always blame the private sector first ... [even] blaming the problem on the solution. — Richard L. Gordon Copy Share Image
You can't get votes that way. So [the Republicans] have been compelled to mobilize a base of voters and gone to elements… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Religion in America . . . Must be regarded as the foremost of the political institutions for that country; for if it… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
People ask me: "Do I consider myself to be a Latino writer?" "What does it mean to be Latino?" Those are very… — Quiara Alegria Hudes Copy Share Image
My family wasn't particularly political. Mom and Dad voted, but that was the extent of their involvement. In fact, I ended up… — Jackie Speier Copy Share Image
I think I was a militant smoker, and I felt hemmed in by a wall of political correctness and I think I… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
I also think that [political turmoil] gives artists something, a way of kind of processing. — Morgan Parker Copy Share Image
Many Jews are not Zionists and many non-Jews are. Zionism is a political movement, not a race. To say Zionism is the… — David Icke Copy Share Image
Joe Klein is the flower of American political journalism, a sharp raconteur who shows traces of the gonzo style that was in… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
“The Democratic Party would like to be re-elected so that they can continue to uphold almost no Occupational Safety & Health Administration… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
... no human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information. It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
When facing the public, politicians constantly filter their ideas through a political sieve. 'How will this affect the environmentalists, labor, management?' Sometimes… — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
A fanatic, either, religious or political, is the subject of strong delusions. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The president doesn't order the military to seize political opponents. He doesn't order his intelligence community to lie about national security for… — Kathleen Troia McFarland Copy Share Image
“What a country of lazy shits, with fucking hypocritical politicians claiming that people actually wanted to work if they could. Norwegians voted… — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
I'm a far cry from politically correct, because I don't really care what the political views are. I don't care what the… — Ice T Copy Share Image
During the '80s, those you would call the young philosophers of France, such as Bernard-Henri Lévy and [André ] Gluxman, pointed out… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
What really alarms me about President Bush's 'War on Terrorism' is the grammar. How do you wage war on an abstract noun?… — Terry Jones Copy Share Image