Political Quotes · Page 115

Just saw a t-shirt at the gym said, body by torture. That's a lot less ironic if you're a political prisoner in…

— Dov Davidoff

The career politicians in Washington had transformed a government "for the people" into a government for themselves and for special interests.

— Tom Coburn

We felt that although they were patchy, there was a tremendous political energy in the Henry plays.

— Edward Hall

Being a son of the pastor, I was never allowed to play Joseph or any of the big parts for political reasons.

— Tom Ellis

The only valid political system is one that can handle an imbecile in power without suffering from it

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The political face of Europe is one that has said very clearly that it wants cooperation and friendship with the United States.

— Condoleezza Rice

What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to seek to justify.

— Henry A. Kissinger

The reason we have a Cuban Adjustment Act is because, at the beginning, they [migrants] were fleeing political persecution.

— Marco Rubio

I'm not a Republican because I grew up rich, but because I didn't want to spend the rest of my life poor,…

— Mike Huckabee

That sort of lack of awareness on the part of an activist about the constraints of our political system and the constraints…

— Barack Obama

There is an obvious connection, on the declining Roman empire's bread and circuses model, between political enthusiasm for public spectacles and the…

— Iain Sinclair

As a writer you know you don't have to deal with a lot of the crap that most people deal with, the…

— Robert Greene

Give the FBI unchecked domestic spying powers and instead of focusing on preventing terrorism, it will revert to doing what it does…

— Wendy Kaminer

You have to realize: OK, I don't know how to solve a political problem, I don't know how to solve the pollution…

— Jewel

I was interested in the ripples of feminism passing through Britain and Ireland in the mid-Seventies - how the reverberations of the…

— Maggie O'Farrell

Bob Dole revealed he is one of the test subjects for Viagra. He said on Larry King, 'I wish I had bought…

— Jay Leno

The most extravagant idea that can be born in the head of a political thinker is to believe that it suffices for…

— Anonymous

We never pray against our government or call down curses on them. Instead, we have learned that God is in control both…

— Brother Yun

Obviously, the 'Glow' show is a real feminist story. I knew it would be about female empowerment, and that was really exciting…

— Alison Brie

…the samurai ethic is a political science of the heart, designed to control such discouragement and fatigue in order to avoid showing…

— Yukio Mishima

“I am a citizen of this country,” I declare, “and Mr. Mayor, tonight I will be a citizen of this city when…

— Jerry Ash

I want it to be said that the Bush administration was a results-oriented administration, because I believe the results of focusing our…

— George W. Bush

I have been told that one of the reasons the astronomers of the world cooperate is the fact that there is no…

— Adlai Stevenson I

My grandfather was a member of Parliament for 40 years. Obviously we're talking here South Africa, a whites only parliament. I grew…

— William Kentridge

I'm a bit of a political geek anyway, so you tend to write how you think the rhythms of an administration will…

— Armando Iannucci

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Jesus is not from Georgia. Jesus does not speak English. And Jesus is not a member of the NRA.

— Robert Wright

In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.

— Edward Abbey

Terrorism cannot be isolated from its political, historical, and even social context.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

The typical socialist... a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaler and often with vegetarian leanings.

— George Orwell

Am I right in saying that the locust of this problem is simply that judges in America are half political animals and…

— Dahlia Lithwick

We often repent of what we have said, but never, never, of that which we have not.

— Thomas Jefferson

So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but…

— Aristotle

I'm never intently political about anything, I just speak my mind from my perspective.

— Rose Matafeo

I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.

— Garry Kasparov

It's hard to change adults, and it's hard to change it from a political position or a perceived political position.

— Michelle Obama

I always try to put a strong political context, as a backdrop, in my films.

— Kabir Khan

Women are foils to men. It is hard for women to take a lead role even in NGOs for political resistance.

— Kim Hyesoon

“It is better to recognise that we are in darkness than to pretend that we can see the light”

— Hedley Bull

I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.

— Andrew Greeley