Political Quotes · Page 134

My son is not a tactic to be used in political arenas for relevancy and points.

— Lucy McBath

A genuinely political society, in which discussion and debate are an essential technique, is a society full of risks.

— Moses Finley

It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.

— Harry S Truman

He collected audiences around him, and flourished and exhibited and harangued.

— Aesop

I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.

— Ronald Reagan

I don’t hold with equality in all things only with equality before the law and nothing more.

— Thaddeus Stevens

Writers are given one great story to tell their story. I’m telling my story as a political document.

— Larry Kramer

Any party interested in development of country can come with us, as we never believed in political untouchability.

— Amit Shah

New ties between Russia and Japan would mark not only a breakthrough in their relations but also a significant shift in Northeast…

— Fiona Hill

I have invested the best part of my adult political life in helping to try to build up this movement and I…

— Nigel Farage

It is difficult to attack me directly on religion because I never speak of it. Formally I am a strict observer of…

— Etienne Francois, duc de Choiseul

My strength never came from political echelons, it came from the family. And from the fields and the lands and the flowers…

— Ariel Sharon

The future rests in the religious, political, economic and cultural capacity of humans to establish this larger context in which the particular…

— Thomas Berry

If people of one''s own side have good conduct, it adds power to oneself. The misconduct on the contrary render one powerless.…

— Chanakya

Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now…

— Paul Farmer

Dodd continued to hope that the murders would so outrage the German public that the regime would fall, but as the days…

— Erik Larson

When you go to a church and you see the pastor of that church with a philosophy and a program that's designed…

— Malcolm X

Any single man must judge for himself whether circumstances warrant obedience or resistance to the commands of the civil magistrate; we are…

— John Locke

I phoned the KKK Grand Wizard David Duke in Louisiana and asked why my membership was being delayed. He said my application…

— Ron Stallworth

I never imagined when I wrote my first book on Strauss that the unscrupulous elite that he elevates would ever come so…

— Shadia Drury

What is the use of freedom of the press if the government is in possession of all the printing presses, what does…

— Eugen Richter

Newsweek recently asked American women which women they admire the most, and the answer varied, actually, depending on which political party you…

— Michel Martin

We have evidence all around us in our daily analytic practice and in contemporary world history that this earth-shaking archetypal event is…

— Edward F Edinger

However, it was the great 18th century social philosophers John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau who brought the concept of a…

— Simon Mainwaring

Too many Americans have lost faith in our political system and our economy.

— Ben Ray Lujan

They may be just as intelligent as you say. But I'd feel a helluva lot better if just one of them had…

— Sam Rayburn

I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs.

— Nancy Reagan

It's much more fun to run a political campaign than it is to be the candidate.

— Hunter S. Thompson

Specialization makes the welfare of the society vulnerable to the market and to political forces beyond national control.

— Robert Gilpin

I've always found that avoiding insanity is useful in life - which in American politics sometimes puts one in the minority.

— Tony Blankley

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

— George Bernard Shaw

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except…

— Ulysses S. Grant

Let the massacres remind us to turn down our political volume and venom.

— Phillip Adams

The greatest level of hostility and venom, really, is between parties closest to each other on the political spectrum.

— Elizabeth May

My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

We are in the midst of a violent backlash againist feminism that uses images of female beauty as political weapons against women's…

— Naomi Wolf

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy.

— Ralph Ellison

In political life, it is extremely difficult to remain loyal to a friendship when constellations of power or interests are in the…

— Martin Schulz

Secrecy is the linchpin of abuse of power, . . . its enabling force. Transparency is the only real antidote.

— Glenn Greenwald

The work gets more political as I become older and more aware, I guess, of power and justice issues.

— Francesca Da Rimini