Political Quotes · Page 108

For me, it all comes down to one issue: if we can get money out of political systems, the whole world will…

— Steven Van Zandt

All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.

— Indira Gandhi

I'm a politician, and as a politician I have the prerogative to lie whenever I want.

— Charlie Peacock

American nation was not founded on political principles. This nation was founded on spiritual principles.

— Marco Rubio

We became the first political movement in Italy, and the media didn't even realize it.

— Beppe Grillo

The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it's hardly a traditional political party anymore.

— Noam Chomsky

Deficit, deficit, deficit. The political and media elites are obsessed with the D-word.

— Mehdi Hasan

It's never easy dealing with terrorists, but it must be done through a mixture of political, economic and administrative means.

— Benazir Bhutto

I'm not new to the political process; I was making a contribution as the speaker of the third largest and most diverse…

— Marco Rubio

Though written constitutions may be violated in moments of passion or delusion, yet they furnish a text to which those who are…

— Thomas Jefferson

Union busting has become a major industry with more than a thousand consulting firms teaching companies how to prevent workers from organizing…

— Michael Parenti

At the end of the day, we have obviously our own political realities that will not allow us to approve something that…

— Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal

American cities are kind of difficult contexts to work in. They are politically complex. There are a lot of different interest groups.…

— William J. Mitchell

If women decide that their mission, their political career, balances out what they have to give up, they can be and are…

— Dalia Grybauskaite

The political technology of the Industrial age is no longer appropriate technology for the new civilization taking form around us. Our politics…

— Alvin Toffler

If he's - the inference is that somehow he thinks slavery is a - is a noble institution I would - I…

— George W. Bush

Even tax breaks that are supposed to help the middle class too often skew toward the wealthy. Consider the mortgage interest deduction.…

— Dee Dee Myers

All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war. "There's no place for impractical dreamers…

— William S. Burroughs

If the essence of cynicism consists in preferring nature to art, virtue to beauty and science; in not bothering about the letter…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I look upon parliamentary government as the noblest government in the world, and certainly one most suited to England. But without the…

— Benjamin Disraeli

The best way to deal with AIDS is through education. So we need a really widespread AIDS education program. In fact, what…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

I would hazard the statement that in the broad sense [Ho Chi Minh's] ideas had triumphed, since the communist victory in Vietnam…

— William J. Duiker

Since the presidency of Ronald Reagan, conservatives have succeeded by adhering to a platform that rests firmly on three legs: smaller government,…

— Frank Gaffney

There is an alternative to terror. It is called, in the political order, democracy. In the economic order, it is called the…

— Michael Novak

All political organizations tend to function like a machine, to eliminate the unpredictable factor of affect - emotion.

— William S. Burroughs

But of course in my world nothing is political. And everything's about policy and governance. And maybe a bit of politics.

— Naheed Nenshi

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.

— Gertrude Stein

Any country that has sexual censorship will eventually have political censorship.

— Kenneth Tynan

Politics is - once in a while - a forum for serious debate about political philosophy.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I think it's important to realize that I was actually black before the election.

— Barack Obama

After each perceived security crisis ended, the United States has remorsefully realized that the abrogation of civil liberties was unnecessary.

— William J. Brennan

The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.

— Ronald Reagan

The nature of our two main political parties has changed in the United States.

— Roger Mahony

Too often, real policy improvements get drowned out by political talking points.

— Matt Rosendale

I don't think of myself in a political way, though I am definitely a feminist.

— Nicole Holofcener

Gun violence has cost us too many political leaders, and hardly ever the worst ones.

— P. J. O'Rourke

We will use political power as a tool to improve the lives of the people.

— Mayawati

The people believed that while the courts would be independent, they would defer to the political branches on policy issues.

— Sam Brownback

We seem to have trouble with [critical thinking]. And our political system doesn't help.

— Barack Obama

“There has never been a more important time to vote for the Green Party!”

— Steven Magee