Political Quotes · Page 135

I regret that a private comment I made to the vice presidential candidate made it through the public airways.

— George W. Bush

My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort…

— Eliza Dushku

American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.

— Richard Dawkins

Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.

— Oscar Wilde

Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a…

— Ron Paul

Many poets in Iran have learned to speak almost a secret language, where political issues are talked about in allegorical ways.

— Reza Aslan

Political vitriol is a familiar enough characteristic of American history.

— Robert Dallek

Art has political consequences, which is to say, it reorganizes society and creates constituencies of people around it.

— Dave Hickey

To break the power of the big corporations, we would propose that the biggest 500 corporations that dominate the rigged economy and…

— Kshama Sawant

Where annual elections end, there slavery begins ... Humility, patience, and moderation, without which every man in power becomes a ravenous beast…

— John Adams

And though the philosopher may live remote from business, the genius of philosophy, if carefully cultivated by several, must gradually diffuse itself…

— David Hume

Paris was incredible. Everything about it for me, from spending hours eating, drinking and talking to walking through the streets...at that time…

— Kate Hudson

It is an axiom in my mind that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves,…

— Thomas Jefferson

I do not agree with this notion that somehow if I go to try to attract votes and to lead people toward…

— George W. Bush

Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire…

— Seamus Heaney

Fascism is a system of political authority and social order intended to reinforce the unity, energy, and purity of communities in which…

— Robert O. Paxton

Citizens as conceived by governments are persons who admire the status quo and are prepared to exert themselves for its preservation. Oddly…

— Bertrand Russell

All people here have political rights, social rights, rights to employment, and no one should face discrimination, but our strategic choice is…

— Vladimir Putin

To say "I accept" in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs,…

— George Orwell

Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are, in principle, under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation or an…

— Noam Chomsky

This is a world that is much more uncertain than the past. In the past we were certain, we were certain it…

— George W. Bush

I have spent seven of the 12 years I have been married a victim of political persecution. I must be the first…

— Asif Ali Zardari

I think that all of the cyber attacks that are taking place, but particularly this - the Russian one, had a profound…

— John F. Kerry

If we look at the last decades, we see that the US rightist-fundamentalist alliance demonized partnership-oriented families and painted women's rights as…

— Riane Eisler

At least there's a political input, but when you put on the robe, at that point the politics is over.

— Stephen Breyer

I do not want to see the Republican party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny-fear, ignorance, bigotry and…

— Margaret Chase Smith

We will not put our sons in prison for political membership or resisting occupation, because occupation is the reason for the problem.

— Said Seyam

To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as…

— Aldous Huxley

I've got genuine political reasons for not voting for David Cameron. He's got a tiny little mouth.

— Sean Lock

The future of any leader or political systems is to be determined by the people of the country.

— Ban Ki-moon

The state itself becomes more and more identified with the interests of those who run things than with the interests of the…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

I fight, and have fought, for political freedom, for justice and for fairness and freedom of speech.

— Teresa Heinz

Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.

— Agnes Repplier

Will Rogers once said it is not the original investment in a Congressman that counts; it is the upkeep.

— John F. Kennedy

The objective of a terrorist is to create political change in the society he targets.

— Tom Clancy

I am a strong believer in the intertwined nature of the personal and the political; I think they move together.

— Mohsin Hamid

Of all political sacred-cows, education is the most sacred and the most cow-like.

— Enoch Powell

'Political Animals' was before its time: a little darker, a little edgier. The audience wasn't ready for it.

— Bonnie Hammer

If you read angry political blogs, substitute Obama with my daddy and you'll usually learn a lot about the author.

— Dana Gould

I find the remark, "Tis distance lends enchantment to the view" is no less true of the political than of the natural…

— Franklin Pierce