Political Quotes · Page 131

Being political is an integral part of being Iranian. Our lives are defined by politics.

— Shirin Neshat

The second a political consultant tries to play dirty tricks, it will backfire, and it will hurt that candidate.

— Nikki Haley

You get to know more of the character of a man in a round of golf than in six months of political…

— David Lloyd George

At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of…

— James Monroe

I'm going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you're not going to believe it.

— George H. W. Bush

Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.

— Carl Andre

New!Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.

— Neil Kinnock

In politics, the truth is strictly optional and that also seems to be true in parts of the media.

— Thomas Sowell

Truth is not to be found either in traditional capitalism or in Marxism. Each represents a partial truth. Historically, capitalism failed to…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

It's heartbreaking that so many hundreds of millions of people around the world are desperate for the right to vote, but here…

— Moby

My financial service business is the absolute best thing I have done to empower the poor. I run many charities and fight…

— Russell Simmons

Until politics are a branch of science, we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts…

— John B. S. Haldane

But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the…

— Anonymous

I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political…

— Naguib Mahfouz

Evolution is a large political controversy as to what should be taught in the schools. But there is no scientific controversy that…

— Carl Zimmer

I think I developed a culture of healthy skepticism of claims of certainty on any side of the aisle. A sort of…

— David Plotz

For the first time since 2007 there is political momentum behind fixing the immigration system. President Obama in his State of the…

— Juan Williams

I would like to see more of a democratic opening on the island of Cuba, things like, I don't know, free press,…

— Marco Rubio

A lot of people say, 'Well, I'm just not political.' And I think: Do you have a bank account? You're political. Not…

— Kelly Reichardt

In Jordan, where the prime minister is always a commoner, the king has announced some new reforms that would tend to move…

— Elliott Abrams

America pays its bills. It always has. It always will. The fact that Washington is now debating whether to honor its debts…

— Peter Welch

There are many things which swallow up men's thoughts while they live, which they will think little of when they are dying.…

— J. C. Ryle

The media want to maintain their intimate relation to state power. They want to get leaks, they want to get invited to…

— Noam Chomsky

I do believe that our ability to jam the Trump brand is somewhat limited. I think we can chip away at it,…

— Naomi Klein

I do write songs with a political dimension to them sometimes, but I'm always slightly appalled by it when I do.

— Jarvis Cocker

Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.

— Wendell Phillips

What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain.

— Thomas Friedman

There needs to be debates, like we're going through. There needs to be townhall meetings. There needs to be travel. This is…

— George W. Bush

I am a woman that defends animals, right, left, and in the centre. Animals aren't political.

— Brigitte Bardot

There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and…

— Robert E. Lee

The nation no longer stands for the enlightenment tradition, but rather for military-political hegemony and the total commodification of life.

— Morris Berman

TV and film are always slipping in political messages, not ones designed to bring us together but to divide us.

— Orson Bean

Russia and China deride western democracy and deploy both hard and soft power to promote their alternative models of political development.

— David Lidington

When I die, I don't want my demise to be used as a political rally, and that's what happened yesterday.

— Bill O'Reilly

I believe in a democracy and we live in a democracy. We have a titular head of state as the monarch but…

— Jeremy Corbyn

The definition of terrorism is killing civilians with the intent of changing their political affiliation.

— Caleb Carr

'Hell in a Handbasket' is not dealing with the political nature of the country. It's dealing with the humanity and the compassion…

— Meat Loaf

“The personal is no longer just political, it’s economic through and through.”

— Nina Power

I am for making of terms annual, and for sending an entire new set every year.

— John Adams

Actually, the New Deal's central dedication was to business recovery rather than social reform.

— Michael Parenti