Political Quotes · Page 116

I think a lot of bad things have happened in the name of the church and in the name of Christ. Therefore…

— John Lennon

I stated at Justice [John] Roberts' hearing, the court's injected itself into many of the political debates of our day.

— Sam Brownback

The Left/Right scale is a misleading way of comparing political systems. It doesn't measure anything.

— Marshall Fritz

I think (the internet) is contributing to Chinese political engagement..access to the outside world is preventing more censorship.

— Bill Gates

If somebody did a new show that, within a family, had conflicting political views, that would be great.

— Justine Bateman

“The universe runs on the principle that one who can exert the most evil on other creatures runs the show.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

One of the most important skills for political success is the ability to make confident assertions of absurdities or lies.

— Thomas Sowell

Of the influence of Mr. Mill's personal character on those who were his political associates, it is difficult to speak too warmly.

— Millicent Fawcett

When I am writing political op-eds, I do think carefully about the impact of my words. When I am writing fiction, it's…

— Elif Safak

When you look at 'Grapes of Wrath,' the weakest moments are those in which Steinbeck is spouting a political idea directly at…

— Philipp Meyer

It's important that the drivers stay together, because in difficult moments we have each other. If we are not together the financial…

— Ayrton Senna

Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a…

— Hannah Arendt

In my opinion nothing has contributed more to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is…

— George Orwell

Approaching any movie with a three in the title you know you are not going to get a political polemic. You are…

— J. J. Abrams

Global political conditions make a direct American intervention difficult, but President Reagan's messianic and visceral attitude toward the Nicaraguan revolution could mean…

— Tomas Borge

Once a bureau is created, its staff becomes a tenacious political interest group, well placed to defend its budget and to make…

— Robert Higgs

Unless you're willing to fight and refight the same battles until you go blue in the face, drive the people you work…

— Bill Moyers

Social media, it's a minefield! Technology is moving so fast right now. Everyone is scrambling around trying to understand what it means…

— Emma Watson

Nature knows no political boundaries. She puts living creatures on this globe and watches the free play of forces. She then confers…

— Adolf Hitler

Financial capacity and political perspicacity are inversely correlated. Long-run salvation by men of business has never been highly regarded if it means…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Beginning, perhaps, from the reasonable perspective that absolute objectivity is unattainable, Fox News and MSNBC no longer even attempt it. They show…

— Ted Koppel

What is called 'capitalism'is basically a system of corporate mercantilism, with huge and largely unaccountable private tyrannies exercising vast control over the…

— Noam Chomsky

Republicans don't have to accept evolution, economics, climatology, or human sexuality, but I just watched a week of their national convention, and…

— Bill Maher

In the political environment that exists today, the opposition research of the Obama campaign is looking for anything they can use to…

— Mitt Romney

The problem is, Hamas is using force to try to extort progress on its political objectives.

— Susan Rice

I am an optimist. If I ever quit being an optimist, I guess I'll become a Republican.

— Ray Farabee

I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo.

— Shirley Chisholm

I now find my political philosophy more in line with Democrats than Republicans,

— Arlen Specter

Both CNN and NPR prohibit political activity by all journalists, no matter their assignment.

— Bill Dedman

The danger of loss of faith in God is not that one will believe in nothing, but rather that one will believe…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.

— Lord Acton

It's not that Michelle Obama is trying to conceal her true feelings, it's that she does not want to be a political…

— Jodi Kantor

Never, never, you must never either of you remind a man at work on a political job that he may be President.

— Theodore Roosevelt

When religion controls government, political liberty dies; and when government controls religion, religious liberty perishes.

— Sam Ervin

The days of discriminating against religious institutions simply because they are religious must come to an end.

— George W. Bush

I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.

— Bob Dylan

We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.

— Hans Kung

I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity

— Elfriede Jelinek

My passion strengthens daily to quit political turmoil, and retire into the bosom of my family, the only scene of sincere and…

— Thomas Jefferson

I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's…

— Edith Wharton