Political Quotes · Page 137

Minorities have never been given their rights. They have always had to wage a political and legal battle to win them.

— Gloria Allred

The average person that works every day for a living gets kind of tired of the political system. Nothing seems to change…

— Bob Backlund

Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness…

— Bernard Levin

So are we still trying to end racial politics or are there just too many advantages to some political parties for that?

— Frank J. Fleming

The rich have grown richer, but their tax rate has declined. The poor have grown poorer, but their taxes have increased.

— Michael Parenti

When the private sector fails, the solution is more government. When the government fails, the solution is more government.

— Glenn Reynolds

In the political world, the only position I have is voter. I'm not a spokesman for anything.

— Tommy Lee Jones

The nice thing about political pundits is that, when they answer a question, one no longer understands what they were asked.

— Indro Montanelli

There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by the laws, or in which political institutions…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

I think Def Jam happened to be one of the labels that really didn't have a good grip on things that were…

— Joe Budden

I felt I had an opportunity to follow in the footsteps of great soul musicians of the past, who made a lot…

— Aloe Blacc

I say us - obviously I don't vote as I believe democracy is a pointless spectacle where we choose between two indistinguishable…

— Russell Brand

I'm a sort of political person, and I feel that there's a kind of ineradicably political dimension to theater, to all theater,…

— Tony Kushner

This administration is doing everything we can to end the stalemate in an efficient way. We're making the right decisions to bring…

— George W. Bush

If we fulfill our responsibility to the Constitution, the Supreme Court will be filled with superior legal minds who will pursue the…

— Chuck Grassley

I don't think Republicans will be fooled into taking this necessary spending and using it to oppose pro-growth tax cuts, using this…

— Grover Norquist

People who think of themselves as tough-minded and realistic, among them influential political leaders and businessmen as well as go-getters and hustlers…

— S. I. Hayakawa

It is true that I am not one of those who laugh at utopias. The utopia of today can become the reality…

— Charles Albert Gobat

There were many generations of Latino people coming to this country, coming from difficult political or social situations in their own countries,…

— Antonio Banderas

To speak plainly and truthfully about the state of our world - to say, for instance, that the Bible and the Koran…

— Sam Harris

Chevy Chase had been a bad boy with a drug problem, and had never really realized his potential. Fletch was the first…

— Tim Matheson

I see the liberty of the individual not only as a great moral good in itself (or, with Lord Acton, as the…

— Murray Rothbard

A good many of my poems over the years have alluded to or taken on the political. Stevens has a line in…

— Stephen Dunn

Sense About Science is much more than an innocent fact-checking service. It is a spin-off of a bizarre political network that began…

— Zac Goldsmith

We must all hear the universal call to like your neighbor just like you like to be liked yourself.

— George W. Bush

Austerity hasn't just decimated our public services. It has corroded the political imagination.

— Ash Sarkar

Americans hate traffic jams and also dislike power-hungry political figures.

— Mercedes Schlapp

The Bible is the only force known to history that has freed enitre nations from corruption while simultaneously giving them political freedom.

— Vishal Mangalwadi

We will keep a commitment to pluralism and not discriminate for or against Methodist or Mormons or Muslims or good people with…

— George W. Bush

Nobody gets to threaten the full faith and credit of the United States just to extract political concessions.

— Barack Obama

The first right an immigrant is stripped of is the right to be political.

— Tania Bruguera

America's founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more - and nothing less.

— Ayn Rand

By the way, I am the least political member of my family - I have no future in politics.

— Neil Bush

“Gustav's art isn't political," I said. "You of all people should know that." "All art is political. You of all people should…

— Elizabeth Hickey

My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.

— Indira Gandhi

It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.

— Barbara Kingsolver

I reject the notion that Boston is a city hopelessly divided by neighborhood, income level or political outlook.

— Michelle Wu

Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.

— Walter Lippmann

Across the continent, political divisions are deepening. For all of these reasons, the specter of a euro zone collapse has not been…

— Barry Eichengreen

Deliberation is not a particular type of speech, but a political act of collective decision-making in consideration of consequences.

— F. David Mathews