Political Quotes · Page 111

Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

— Anonymous

African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing.

— Jefferson Davis

You can't change Washington from the inside, you can only change it from the outside.

— Barack Obama

I was raised with the idea that if you're not smart enough to do science you can do politics.

— Michael Crichton

The US and the European Union needs to help in the translation of the demand for democracy into a political will.

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

If you have political reform in the Islamic world, the spiritual reform would follow.

— Imran Khan

Art is inherently political. Even trying to make a film that has nothing to do with politics is, in and of itself,…

— Barry Jenkins

Any type of political ideology is going to have a lot of different variants of it.

— John Mackey

When the American people look at the political process play out, they hear all the spinning and all the doctrinaire language, and…

— David Gregory

At Yale, you can find someone passionate and enthusiastic and involved in just about any issue. For many of us, though, our…

— Jack Schlossberg

To make the world safe for those who own it, politically active elements of the owning class have created a national security…

— Michael Parenti

The government in which I believe is that which is based on mere moral sanction...the real law lives in the kindness of…

— Leo Tolstoy

When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable…

— Michael Ignatieff

A lot of times in the rhetoric, people forget the facts. And the facts are that thousands of small businesses-Hispanically owned or…

— George W. Bush

I think the sense of exclusivity that tended to be associated with religions in past times has now disappeared. At least it…

— Pierre Trudeau

America's political landscape is infested with many zombie ideas - beliefs about policy that have been repeatedly refuted with evidence and analysis…

— Paul Krugman

But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burthens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of…

— Edward Gibbon

The laws ought to be so framed as to secure the safety of every citizen as much as possible. ... Political liberty…

— Catherine the Great

When we say that the Arabs are the aggressors and we defend ourselves — this is only half the truth. As regards…

— David Ben-Gurion

The power of the press in America is a primordial one. It sets the agenda of public discussion; and this sweeping political…

— Theodore White

The alternative which I favor is to renounce all euphemisms and grasp the nettle of the word atheism itself, precisely because it…

— Richard Dawkins

What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he's a painter, or ears if he's…

— Pablo Picasso

Those who have to face persistent political persecution become highly politicized. Our lives take on a rhythm different from those who, on…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

It is also in despair of being able to understand or make any productive contribution to the highly organised chaos of our…

— Alan Watts

I am pro-Israeli, not because of political expediency, but because I believe Israel is the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy.

— Jimmy Carter

There aren't many political humorists. Dave Barry is excellent, but he doesn't do it much.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Certainly, the murder of civilians for political statement did not just begin on September 11, 2001.

— Cliff Stearns

Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law.

— Lamar S. Smith

In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed.

— John Rawls

The SS, as such, behaved no more criminally than any other social groups would behave when taking part in political events.

— Hans Frank

Ottawa - a sub-arctic lumber-village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit.

— Goldwin Smith

If you look at the history of the FBI, it has become effectively America's political police.

— Julian Assange

Let's face it, Obama is not a hugely popular political figure in the state of Texas.

— Wendy Davis

We're not disinterested in politics. It's just that politicians are disinteresting.

— John Lennon

Where two Greeks are gathered together, there will be at least three political parties represented, and possibly more.

— Mary Stewart

It takes money to run political campaigns. This is a cancer growing on the soul of our democracy.

— Elizabeth Warren

I thought I was really a radical, political person, which of course I am not.

— Lena Dunham

A political country is like an American forest; you have only to cut down the old trees, and immediately new trees come…

— Walter Bagehot

President Bush spent the day calling names he couldn't pronounce in countries he never knew existed.

— Jay Leno

The political groups who have taken the responsibility to elect Mr. Macron have been discredited.

— Marine Le Pen