Political Quotes · Page 124

The things that have made America great are being subverted for the things that make Americans rich.

— Louise Erickson

I am convinced that my dark-horse candidacy helped pave the way for women and members of underserved communities to seek political office.

— Deborah K. Ross

I do not respect the Dalai Lama. He's a political power broker. The Dalai Lama is not honorable to me.

— Ashin Wirathu

All my life I've been interested in politics. I went on the miners march when I was six months old. My parents…

— Jess Phillips

The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.

— Lysander Spooner

He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.

— George Bernard Shaw

In a functioning liberal democracy, we cannot normalize political violence.

— Andy Ngo

What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.

— Anonymous

The attempt to divide art and politics is a bourgeois which says good poetry, art, cannot be political, but since everything is…

— Amiri Baraka

In a virtuous government, and more especially in times like these, public offices are what they should be - burdens to those…

— Thomas Jefferson

I don't want to do 20 minutes on Donald Trump. I want to do 10 minutes and move on. I wouldn't even…

— David Cross

We need a more diversified portfolio of change-making tools so that we don't just get so freaked out by whatever's happening in…

— Van Jones

A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake…

— Aristotle

Your political reputation affects how likely allies are to trust you, and what kind of deals they'll offer at the negotiating table.…

— Anonymous

Long Island is shaped the way it is largely because of Robert Moses. Long Island is a perfect example of how political…

— Robert Caro

When a war is waged by two opposing groups of robbers for the sake of deciding who shall have a freer hand…

— Vladimir Lenin

As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends to compensatingly increase and the dictator... will do well to encourage that freedom…

— Julian Huxley

For decades, we have piled deficit upon deficit, mortgaging our future and our children's future for the temporary convenience of the present.…

— Ronald Reagan

Let us then repeat and firmly fix this main point: the evil, the root evil, of that to which the term Capitalism…

— Hilaire Belloc

We are deceiving ourselves if we believe that a literary work written and published in a country where 70 per cent of…

— Zakaria Tamer

Liberalism should be found not striving to spread bureaucracy but striving to set bounds to it. True liberalism seeks all legitimate freedom…

— Herbert Hoover

The power of the silent filibuster to distort Senate politics is now accepted on Capitol Hill and by the press as normal…

— Juan Williams

All political power, all power as such, is stupid. Don't rush after it, don't be ambitious, because all ambition collects dust and…

— Rajneesh

I would not describe myself as a political writer except in the sense that the personal is political, which is something that…

— Neil Gaiman

True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion.

— Henry Cabot Lodge

Economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved.

— Herbert Hoover

I want to make films that are political and social. Films with a message or an idea. Films that dare to ask.

— Juliette Binoche

After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.

— Ann Richards

War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

A public role endures for the literary high-command, as sages and seers, speaking out on social and political issues.

— Tibor Fischer

I have a social philosophy; you have political opinions; he has an ideology.

— Clifford Geertz

Either we figure out how to keep corporate cash out of the political system or we lose the democracy.

— Molly Ivins

There is a clear intent to keep Christian thinking out of the mainstream of the media and the nation's political life.

— Erwin W. Lutzer

Elections are when you have to make a choice. Perfection not often attainable!

— Rupert Murdoch

There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.

— Earle Brown

Governor Cooper should stop playing political games and start serving the people who elected him.

— Mark Robinson

Everyone acknowledges that there is a political part to tenure, but no one likes to admit it.

— Priyamvada Natarajan

The courtroom is a quiet place, Judge Roberts, where you park your political ideology, and you call the balls and you call…

— Lindsey Graham

Noam Chomsky skittles and skithers all over the political landscape to distract the reader’s attention from the plain truth.

— Sidney Hook

“Without critical work, political awareness is likely to remain superficial and rhetorical.”

— Carter Heyward