Political Quotes · Page 100

American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.

— Richard Dawkins

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

— Oscar Wilde

I've always found that avoiding insanity is useful in life - which in American politics sometimes puts one in the minority.

— Tony Blankley

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

— George Bernard Shaw

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except…

— Ulysses S. Grant

Let the massacres remind us to turn down our political volume and venom.

— Phillip Adams

The greatest level of hostility and venom, really, is between parties closest to each other on the political spectrum.

— Elizabeth May

Sustainability is a political choice, not a technical one. It's not a question of whether we can be sustainable, but whether we…

— Anonymous

Professional politicians like to talk about the value of experience in government. Nuts! The only experience you gain in politics is how…

— Ronald Reagan

It's clear to me now that we've got to reach out to the Arab Sunni community in particular in an effort to…

— John Abizaid

America is fed up with political correctness, and it is fed up with government that doesn't work. It's fed up with weakness…

— Newt Gingrich

While mainstream media is led by profit, ratings and popularist culture and filtered by the current political climate, Alternative Media is lead…

— Ben Edwards

The political ramifications of our festering financial and economic crisis have reached the sidewalks of New York, as well as other large…

— Jerry A. Webman

Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it…

— Allan Bloom

I've thought hard about my psychological connections and I think I've managed to separate out the psychological from the legal, moral, and…

— Alan Dershowitz

Modern historians are all would-be philosophers; who, instead of relating facts as they occurred, give us their version, or rather perversions of…

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

While big business gain subsidies and political access, small businesses drown in red tape, and individuals now risk being classified as terrorists…

— Zac Goldsmith

Famines are easy to prevent if there is a serious effort to do so, and a democratic government, facing elections and criticisms…

— Amartya Sen

I am sorry to be so blunt, but I do not see much ambiguity here. [Barack] Obama was late to affirm the…

— Judith Butler

Not only our political system is broken, but how we do business and have public discourse with one another. The system in…

— Isaiah Washington

The profound political changes we need in order to heal our planet will not come about through fragmented problem solving or intellectual…

— Petra Kelly

Predatory capitalism created a complex industrial system and an advanced technology; it permitted a considerable extension of democratic practice and fostered certain…

— Noam Chomsky

Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint - Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The…

— John F. Kennedy

No principle, that is possible to be named, can be more self-evidently false than this; or more self-evidently fatal to all political…

— Lysander Spooner

The alliance in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the most important developments on the contemporary political scene.

— Narendra Modi

We want to assert the very principle that truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.

— John Howard

I know that sometimes politics creates situations in which people want to say particular things for political reasons.

— Reuven Rivlin

My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art.

— Thom Yorke

I spend all day figuring out how to beat the machine and knock the crap out of the political power structure.

— Bella Abzug

The great twin political problems of the age are the brutality of the right, and the dishonesty of the left.

— Geoffrey Wheatcroft

We need laws that protect everyone - men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion...ah, persuasion.

— Bella Abzug

Chechens need to be able to develop their own viable political society and regional economy whether they remain part of Russia or…

— Fiona Hill

Non-co-operation in the political field is an extension of the doctrine as it is practised in the domestic field.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Psychological mapping for political ends is now going to be part of every campaign.

— Gina Miller

In a land of freedom we are held hostage by the tyranny of political correctness.

— Robert Griffin III

Any nation that can survive what we have lately in the way of government, is on the high road to permanent glory.

— Molly Ivins

One colossal advantage of being in extra innings is that you can tell it like it is, say what you think, and…

— Bob Lutz

Our economy, our safety, our jobs all take a back seat to the left's political desire to hurt Trump.

— Trish Regan

Religious conservatives still lack a theology of direct political action.

— Ralph E. Reed, Jr

I have a very successful father-in-law and family with very different political views.

— Gavin Newsom