I must say acting was good training for the political life which lay ahead for us. — Nancy Reagan Copy Share Image
In political life, it is extremely difficult to remain loyal to a friendship when constellations of power or interests are in the… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
Oh how I wish he (Franklin Pierce) was out of political life! How much better it would be for him on every… — Jane Pierce Copy Share Image
Trump is a man who, for better or worse, stands in opposition to the institutions that dominate American political life. — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
No man is fit to be a Senator...unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle. — Henry F. Ashurst Copy Share Image
People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The reduction of political discourse to sound bites is one of the worst things that's happened in American political life. — John Silber Copy Share Image
I think in political life you can only know your position and stay in place, even though people always try to push… — Ksenia Sobchak Copy Share Image
We shouldn't waste any more time in making sure that democracy is properly rooted in our political life and the supremacy of… — Ahmet Necdet Sezner Copy Share Image
If in a democratic country nothing can be permanently achieved save through the masses of the people, it will be impossible to… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
“And if I am further pressed to declare straightforwardly whether I mean to disparage these authorities [who criticize Ibsen], I reply, pointedly,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
For someone like me who, as a kid, walked to school muttering little political speeches to myself, it was irresistible to finally… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
The time is fast coming when politicians will cease to fear the religion of humanity and humanitarians will find entrance into political… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I met with an Automaidan activist who was part of a self-appointed group drafting a lustration law for parliament, which would exclude… — Keith Gessen Copy Share Image
Of all my false identities, the strategies in my campaign to be accepted, being a sworn Republican is the hardest to explain.… — James McGreevey Copy Share Image
High-level political wives are by no means new. In the 18th and 19th centuries, when patricians dominated British political life, it was… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
“Abraham Lincoln struck off the chains of black Americans, but it was Lyndon Johnson who led them into voting booths, closed democracy’s… — Robert A. Caro Copy Share Image
That's why people are standing up again to fight the Keystone pipeline in Nebraska and South Dakota and Montana. Everyone is well… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
We take it for granted that Jesus was not interested in political life: his mission was purely religious. Indeed we have witnessed… — Gustavo Gutiérrez Copy Share Image
I confess to feeling continued ambivalence about political life, aware of its shortcomings and disappointments, but drawn back to it again and… — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
Political life is like this - elections go back and forth. Representative democracy can only be successful if one sits down and… — Helmut Kohl Copy Share Image
I guess I am nostalgic for a time - the nineteenth century and early twentieth - when writers were, to use Stefan… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
The most obvious ones inspiring me are probably women in political life. There are also many women in artistic endeavors, but if… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Were "A Clockwork Orange" or "Blue Velvet" released today, would they have the same power to shock that they had when they… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
“All ancient philosophers, poets, and moralists agree that love is a striving, an aspiration of the “lower” toward the “higher,” the “unformed”… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
“With the term vita activa, I propose to designate three fundamental human activities: labor, work, and action. They are fundamental because each… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“The fourth and final dimension of religious freedom in full is the right—both individually and as part of a larger religious community—to… — Timothy Shah Copy Share Image
“The most significant fact of political life, which almost no news organization will dare to acknowledge – because it would at a… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“We are afraid of what we will do to others, afraid of the rage that lies in wait somewhere deep in our… — Joshua Loth Liebman Copy Share Image
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Those who control the wealth of this society have an influence over political life far in excess of their number. — Michael Pare Copy Share Image
Religious faith is an important aspect of American culture and a fact of American political life. — John Rawls Copy Share Image
We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life. — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life. — John Howard Copy Share Image
I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe that I'm entitled to regard my pre-political life as off-limits in terms of what can be looked at and judged. — George Osborne Copy Share Image
The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
As a woman, I don't trust Boris Johnson with my rights and that's largely because of the things that he has said… — Jess Phillips Copy Share Image
I think those who have followed my political life would have known that I don't believe in just blind loyalty. — Tan Cheng Bock Copy Share Image