How much of our literature, our political life, our friendships and love affairs, depend on being able to talk peacefully in a… — John Wain Copy Share Image
I've never allowed my political life, or my life as a basketball player, to define the totality of my humanity or my… — Bill Bradley Copy Share Image
Everything in our political life tends to hide from us that there is anything wiser than our ordinary selves. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The plain truth is that labor is the chief representative force that keeps the real special interests from dominating American political life. — Lane Kirkland Copy Share Image
If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life and history is depressing. — Anselm Kiefer Copy Share Image
Everybody makes personal decisions that are right for them and if you're in political life, you're used to having those analyzed. — Elizabeth Edwards Copy Share Image
My family helped start [this country], we've been in political life ... since the 1690s, and I have a very possessive sense… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“I was myself so smitten in public opinion that it was the almost universal view that my political life was at last… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes… — Reinhold Niebuhr 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
One of the phenomenons of American political life is that it all stops one day. One day, you've got 200 reporters and… — Walter F. Mondale 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
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
It is possible that the distinction between moral relativism and moral absolutism has sometimes been blurred because an excessively consistent practice of… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
The adjective "political" in "political philosophy" designates not so much the subject matter as a manner of treatment; from this point of… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn't seem to… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
“The middle layers of society, where people see each other face to face, offer a middle ground between radical individualism and extreme… — Yuval Levin Copy Share Image
In political life, dissatisfaction is remedied, or at least combated, through action. For as long as you are not totally satisfied, you… — Emmanuel Macron Copy Share Image
“More recently, during a debate in the House of Lords in 1978 one of the members said: "If there is a more… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Discrimination and multiple deprivations of human rights are also frequently part of the problem, sentencing entire populations to poverty... It is surely… — Navi Pillay Copy Share Image
Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Netanyahu and his coalition have no strategy of their own except endless counterinsurgency against the backdrop of a steadily deteriorating diplomatic positionThe… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment, it's exciting to have a real crisis on… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life. — Oscar Wilde 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
I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us. — Anonymous 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
Inspiration is an underexamined part of political life and presidential leadership. — George Packer Copy Share Image
I have had a lot of adversaries in my political life, but no enemies that I can remember. — Gerald R. Ford 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
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
If I were running to be somebody, there are a lot of easier sombodies to be. After all, running against the incumbent… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
I've been there for so many crossroads in American history. My whole political life spans the birth of the environmental movement, the… — Barbara Boxer Copy Share Image
The middle class is collapsing and we are moving toward an oligarchic form of society, where the billionaires will control the economy… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
In former days, when there were Whigs instead of Liberals, it was almost a rule of political life that all leading Whigs… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Before anything else, I'm a Muslim. As a Muslim, I try to comply with the requirements of my religion. I have a… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan Copy Share Image
You have to talk about why things happened the way they did. You can't actually explain my political life except by a… — David Lange Copy Share Image
“No man demands what he desires; each man demands what he fancies he can get. Soon people forget what the man really… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image