Political Quotes · Page 129

My parents left Libya in 1979, escaping political repression, and settled in Cairo. I was nine.

— Hisham Matar

[Marx's theories] gave me a political and intellectual justification for what I believed in a way that nothing else did.

— Neil Kinnock

The honor of a nation is its life. Deliberately to abandon it is to commit an act of political suicide.

— Alexander Hamilton

I'm pretty opinionated sometimes although my political views change all the time, too. So I'm not very zealous.

— Jay Roach

I have a very balanced posture about the political situation in my country.

— Gabriela Isler

The guys in U2, whom I work with a lot, have a very open political agenda.

— Jonas Akerlund

The well-being of individual persons in any society varies inversely with the money at the disposal of the political class.

— Edmund A. Opitz

Being president of a major public university is the most political nonpolitical office around.

— Gordon Gee

For the last 20 years, political parties have had a one-way relationship with youth - of exploiting them for political gains and…

— Sanjay Gandhi

The way I look at it is, cancer research is absolutely nonpartisan. Cancer is very democratic in the sense that it attacks…

— David H. Koch

Across the country, universities that had abandoned in loco parentis in the 1960s because it was too oppressive and intrusive have replaced…

— Charlie Sykes

I love hard political debate and I love beating somebody on a political point but what I'm more frustrated by is the…

— Johann Lamont

The United States should do whatever it is able to do to assist in the return of normal economic health in the…

— George C. Marshall

The point of a presidential campaign is to put the candidate through the ringer: to force him to get banged up by…

— Monica Crowley

Changing laws and changing the political dialogue, while necessary, is insufficient to ensure that bullying stops; to ensure that every young person…

— Chelsea Clinton

What if Jesus' secret message reveals a secret plan?”. What if he didn't come to start a new religion-but rather came to…

— Brian D. McLaren

I say that the Second Amendment doesn't allow for exceptions - or else it would have read that the right "to keep…

— Harry Browne

Let me just say that to imagine racism does not exist is imagination. And to imagine that it does not create its…

— Phylicia Rashad

I think it's important not to view Martin Luther King Jr. in a narrow political manner. His fundamental commitment is to a…

— Cornel West

All Catholics must make themselves felt as active elements in daily political life in the countries where they live. They must penetrate,…

— Pope Leo XIII

I was one of the actors in 'Braveheart,' and that had a huge impact on the political scene in Scotland. One of…

— James Cosmo

When you are serving volunteer professional military, you take an oath to the Constitution, not to a policy or a president and…

— Nathaniel Fick

Terror, as the demonstration of the will and strength of the working class, is historically justified, precisely because the proletariat was able…

— Leon Trotsky

[This approach] displays the characteristic philosophical lust to vanquish the skeptic by arguing him out of his skepticism, without appeal to moral…

— Dale Jamieson

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

— Barack Obama

It's fun to play a part in the process of helping to inform readers about their political leaders.

— Amy Chozick

If you look at the history of art and fashion, it's always been political. It's always been pushing boundaries.

— Yara Shahidi

I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Our current political system ensures not that the worst will get on top - though they often do - but that the…

— Paul Jacob

You can’t have meaningful political democracy without functioning economic democracy.

— Noam Chomsky

Both political parties have a richly vested interest in corporate corruption.

— Arianna Huffington

A lot of celebrities can raise money for you if you are running for political office.

— Dagen McDowell

Wealth aggregates and becomes political power. Simple as that. ‘Corporation’ is just the most recent name for it.

— Daniel Suarez

I always believe when your political opponents are committing suicide, there's no reason to murder them.

— John Boehner

Anyone dumb enough to get his political information from a comic strip deserves what he gets at the polls.

— Garry Trudeau

The war on privilege will never end. Its next grat campaign will be against the special privileges of the underprivileged.

— H. L. Mencken

Of all states that understands local control of schools, Iowa is such a state.

— George W. Bush

Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.

— Jacques Barzun

Simon Wiesenthal told me that any political party in a democracy that uses the word 'freedom' in its name is either Nazi…

— Simon Wiesenthal

Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?

— Milton Friedman