Political Quotes · Page 121

Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up.

— Hal Sparks

For a very long time, and among a large number of peoples, political power has belonged to the owners of the land.

— Vilfredo Pareto

A lot of people are very political when they are young, and then they outgrow it.

— Andrew Solomon

So I think we're, we're, we're as broad a political party, if not broader than the Democratic Party, just in a different…

— Rudy Giuliani

A psychopath can tell what you're thinking but what they don't do is feel what you feel. These are people without a…

— Robert D. Hare

The morality of a [political] party must grow out of the conscience and the participation of the voters.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Herman Brown was a businessman who wanted value for money spent. His relationships with politicians were measured by that criterion.

— Robert Caro

“Why then should we form our political judgment on the basis of zero investment? We get what we pay for.”

— Timothy Snyder

In The Bob Hope Golf Classic (LWT) the participation of President Gerald Ford was more than enough to remind you that the…

— Clive James

I've never seen a great military, political, or corporate leader who was not a great storyteller. Telling stories is a core competency…

— Bran Ferren

Cubans must prove that they're political refugees. And if they can prove that they're really fleeing persecution, well, they would qualify as…

— Marco Rubio

Nicholas Sarkozy made the point that both America and France have political systems that they want to share with the world. There's…

— Rosecrans Baldwin

The question is: How do we succeed in Iraq? And you don't succeed by leaving before the mission is complete, like some…

— George W. Bush

Governors of both political parties face a stark choice between unpopular tax increases and drastic cuts in Medicaid, education, public safety and…

— Bill Delahunt

If you woke up this morning and you are breathing, and you are Muslim, then you are political. You have no choice…

— Linda Sarsour

Today we say all art is political. But I'd say all art has to do with ethics. Which after all really comes…

— Ingmar Bergman

Freedom, in a political context, means freedom from government coercion. It does not mean freedom from the landlord, from the employer, or…

— Ayn Rand

I am a political human being. I have - that's one of my interests. I studied political science in college. I was…

— Maz Jobrani

A war not only arises, but derives its nature , from the political ideas, the moral sentiments, and the international relations obtaining…

— Ferdinand Foch

To have peace and not war, the drift toward a war economy, as facilitated by the moves and the demands of the…

— C. Wright Mills

Senses of humor define people, as factions, deeper rooted than religious or political opinions. When carrying out everyday tasks, opinions are rather…

— Criss Jami

Perhaps some day men will raise a tablet reading in letters of gold: 'All honor to women, the first disenfranchised class in…

— Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch

In Stage I, divorces were not allowed, so men's [sexual] affairs did not put women's economic security in jeopardy; in Stage II,…

— Warren Farrell

Deregulation is a popular term that's used across the political spectrum. And it's one of these terms like "choice," that corporate interests…

— Robert Waterman McChesney

Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between…

— Walter Lippmann

As has been said, standards are always out of date - that is why we call them standards.

— George Will

Corporate communications will become a high-tech art, just as political communication is for Obama.

— Tina Brown

I try not to name too many labels - not because it's not cool, but because it starts getting political.

— Nelly

My rage and sense of alienation as to how women have been written, have allowed themselves to be written, in so many…

— Kate Zambreno

Even when you just hear the word 'Syria,' it packs a lot of political connotations.

— Sami Zayn

I was political by coming out of the womb. I was gay, and I wanted to play tennis.

— Martina Navratilova

I don't accept the term 'political rapper' because I don't give a damn about either political party. I give a damn about…

— Killer Mike

The FDA calls certain substances "controlled." But there are no "controlled substances," there are only controlled citizens.

— Thomas Szasz

The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.

— Thomas Paine

Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.

— Gao Xingjian

One of the things I find very little of in America - and certainly not on Broadway - are plays with political…

— Michael Lindsay-Hogg

There are a lot of clubs that are like, 'Don't do political jokes because it incites a lot of heckling.'

— Michelle Buteau

I studied political science and international relations, so I never considered myself an artist.

— Philippe Falardeau

All of which raises another question: If Obamacare is so great, why do so many people want to get out from under…

— Michael Barone

1819 was a year of hunger, mass unemployment, political repression and murderous, state-sanctioned violence.

— David Olusoga