Political life Quotes

“Political life must be taken as you find it.”

— Disraeli

Why, of course, the people don't want war.

— Hermann Goring

Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.

— Charles Dickens

Political life loves some volatility.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.

— Oscar Wilde

“Political life is best treated with antibiotics.”

— Colin Tegerdine

Throughout my political life, I've not been a stranger to controversy.

— David Blunkett

It takes heart to be in political life.

— Pat Nixon

Religious faith is an important aspect of American culture and a fact of American political life.

— John Rawls

Charlie Crist has gone through his entire political life with one stump speech - his grandfather polishing shoes.

— Ana Navarro

That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.

— Beatrice Webb

We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life.

— Max Lerner

Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.

— John Howard

No man is fit to be a Senator...unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle.

— Henry F. Ashurst

People getting their fundamental interests wrong is what American political life is all about.

— Thomas Frank

Trump is a man who, for better or worse, stands in opposition to the institutions that dominate American political life.

— Michael Wolff

I am a strong believer that modern political life must rediscover a sense for symbolism. We need to develop a kind of…

— Emmanuel Macron

“The presence of the other, which can be very threatening, becomes, in play, a delightful source of curiosity, and this curiosity contributes…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

A mentor long departed told me that the greatest gift in political life, in any life, is to view yourself objectively, at…

— Hugh Carey

Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis…

— V. S. Naipaul

I understand the harsh feelings and sentiments from my opponents and their supporters because I myself have been defeated twice in my…

— Chen Shui-bian

For long, history was mainly political history, and historical narrative was confined to an account of the most important crises in political…

— Michael Rostovtzeff

If Greece had gone through a very normal political life, I may have not been in politics. But just the fact that…

— George Papandreou

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

— Enoch Powell

You cannot live a political life, you cannot live a moral life if you're not willing to open your eyes and see…

— Bill Ayers

Now the good of political life is a great political good. It is not a secular good specified by a comprehensive doctrine…

— John Rawls

Netanyahu and his coalition have no strategy of their own except endless counterinsurgency against the backdrop of a steadily deteriorating diplomatic position…

— Jonathan Chait

I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw…

— Ronald Reagan

Political life is like this - elections go back and forth. Representative democracy can only be successful if one sits down and…

— Helmut Kohl

We take it for granted that Jesus was not interested in political life: his mission was purely religious. Indeed we have witnessed…

— Gustavo Gutiérrez

“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

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

“It was Ephialtes, in fact, who initiated democratic reforms that involved paying citizens for jury service. Shortly afterwards, he was assassinated (allegedly…

— Guy Standing

“The wealth of data to be found in social and political life. The belief that people do not want to make sacrifices…

— Erich Fromm

“The focus on one sector of Trump voters—the white working class—is puzzling, given the breadth of his white coalition. Indeed, there is…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Looking back to [Christendom's] youth, we recall the emotional stirrings, the deep sense of Christian purpose, when a temple, say, challenged the…

— Harry Blamires

“If one looks at modern society, it is obvious that in order to live, the great majority of people are forced to…

— Gilles Dauvé

“It was not "ironic" that the most liberal country in western Europe should be so eager to descend into a revoltingly illiberal…

— Mark Steyn

“Then there are spurious intellectual discussions about ‘voter apathy’ and so on, as if such factors could possibly explain and somehow justify…

— Paul McLaughlin

“The most significant fact of political life, which almost no news organization will dare to acknowledge – because it would at a…

— Alain de Botton