Political Quotes · Page 127

In politics, as in fishing, you don't have to be a genius. You just have to be smarter than the fish.

— Ze'ev Chafets

I have my own political views and ideologies, but will not enter politics for sure.

— Sreenivasan

Political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries.

— Ayn Rand

The question of receiving the immigrant is an ethical issue that becomes a political issue.

— Ruben Martinez

Democracy is the only game in town. The problem is [when] people start to believe that it is not a game worth…

— Ivan Krastev

Crime has no party affiliation, yet Republicans have spent generations exploiting it and the fear of it for political gain.

— Jonathan Capehart

I knew most of my radio listeners were lefty political people, and I decided definitively not to be that guy - not…

— Marc Maron

The information of the people at large can alone make them the safe as they are the sole depositary of our political…

— Thomas Jefferson

The interest of the people lies in being able to join organizations, advocate causes, and make political "mistakes" without being subjected to…

— Hugo Black

I'm passionate about politics, but when it comes to political parties, I'm despondent. I'm disappointed at the absence of a sense of…

— F. Murray Abraham

I worshipped guys like Bill Maher, Jay Leno, and Jerry Seinfeld, and was doing my variation of that. But as a young…

— Judd Apatow

Do not use thought to ground a political practice in Truth; nor political action to discredit, as mere speculation, a line of…

— Michel Foucault

The politician who steals is worse than a thief. He is a fool. With all the grand opportunities around for the man…

— George W. Plunkitt

We need political leadership that will move the world away from war into solving its problems through dialogue and negotiation, to build…

— Mairead Corrigan

Political talk on TV has degenerated so much. You can say something complex on 'The West Wing' and you will not suffer…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I'm telling people this, I myself continue…

— Dalai Lama

The Republican nominee-to-be, of course, is also a young man. But his approach is as old as McKinley. His party is the…

— John F. Kennedy

Unfortunately, we live at a moment in which ignorance appears to be one of the defining features of American political and cultural…

— Henry Giroux

I may not be a trained actor, but I've paid my dues. And I mean that literally. I am a fully dues-paid…

— Donna Brazile

Capitalist exploitation and cartels and monopolies are the enemies of underdeveloped countries. On the other hand a regime which is completely oriented…

— Frantz Fanon

The ways sexuality plays out in political economies is central. And Cambodia's political economy is organized around this notion of family. So…

— Anne Elizabeth Moore

“Both political parties have moved to the right during the neoliberal period. Today’s New Democrats are pretty much what used to be…

— Noam Chomsky

Kissinger's major, and most lucrative role, has come as head of Kissinger Associates in New York City, founded on a loan obtained…

— Murray Rothbard

I do think that religion has turned a lot of people off. Part of it is because it was all about the…

— Joel Osteen

If you begin by saying, 'Thou shalt not lie,' there is no longer any possibility of political action.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

My father, the political dissident Jaballa Matar, disappeared from his home in Cairo in March 1990.

— Hisham Matar

As a historian, he felt it his duty to respect everything that had ever been respected, except for the occasional statesman.

— Henry Adams

Other people can write grown-up, political plays about the troubles in the world. My plays deal with magic and hope.

— Colman Domingo

Unfortunately, most of Congress has little to offer except making noise and knowing how to move up the bloated political chain.

— Robert Blaha

At a time when political correctness is valued over honesty I would also like to say, 'Right on!

— Madonna Ciccone

I am not a political figure, nor do I want to be one; but I come with my heart.

— Princess Diana

Every provisional political set-up following a revolution requires a dictatorship, and an energetic dictatorship at that.

— Karl Marx

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

— George Orwell

Often times, political games prevent senators from even beginning to debate some of the most important issues.

— Michael Bennet

It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.

— Fareed Zakaria

I apprehend... that the total abandonment of the principle of rotation in the offices of President and Senator will end in abuse.

— Thomas Jefferson

“The political spectrum is not a straight, bi-polar line. It's a circle.”

— T. Rafael Cimino

An excessive amount of my time is taken with political involvement. It's unavoidable; that's my temperament.

— Wole Soyinka

Office tends to confer a dreadful plausibility on even the most negligible of those who hold it.

— Mark Lawson

Stability and a prosperous life cannot be set off against a set of political rights and freedoms.

— Dmitry Medvedev