Political Quotes · Page 145

There's not going to be enough people in the system to take advantage of people like me.

— George W. Bush

It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt

— Thomas Paine

A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence.

— Arthur Miller

I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong

— Alfred Russel Wallace

As an ideology - and certainly as a political identity - conservatism is less popular than the very principles and values it…

— Shelby Steele

We now know that a neo-conservative is an arsonist who sets the house on fire and six years later boasts that no…

— Bill Moyers

Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it is awfully hard to get it back in.

— H. R. Haldeman

I don't see myself as a political artist, but certain issues mean a lot to me.

— Kano

The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it…

— Christopher Dawson

We would continue our commitments, president and cabinet, to the manner of negotiations as a strategic and political reality, through which we…

— Mahmoud Abbas

Human Rights Watch wants Rwandans to be able to speak freely about their ethnic hatreds, and to allow political parties connected with…

— Stephen Kinzer

Some of Donald Trump's gifts that obviously allowed him to execute one of the biggest political upsets in history, those are ones…

— Barack Obama

At 19, I basically held the position that if you were intellectually honest and really wanted to get in touch with political…

— Thomas Metzinger

I'm not really a political animal but I am rather fascinated by the meltdown of England and America. In the end, it…

— Rupert Everett

Many of you have asked why it's taken me so long to select a running mate. I have no intention of reaching…

— Pat Paulsen

From the political angle, I'm trying to be apolitical if you will. I mean people say, 'Are you a red state or…

— Brad Thor

Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit. A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Art movements are always linked to some kind of turmoil. We can look at history and see that [political turmoil is] fertile…

— Morgan Parker

The stupidity of the average man will permit the oligarch, whether economic or political, to hide his real purposes from the scrutiny…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Communism is not a political party nor a political plan under the Constitution; it is a system of government that is the…

— David O. McKay

His Majesty's Government views with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their…

— Arthur Balfour

We often imagine that the court serves as a sort of neutral umpire controlling the warring political branches. But this is mostly…

— Noah Feldman

Part of what you need to understand is that we're forced to look back. You had the importation of third world or…

— Van Jones

The personal qualities necessary for attaining office are practically the opposite of those demanded by the office itself. The trouble with the…

— James P. Hogan

The nature of our two main political parties has changed in the United States.

— Roger Mahony

The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.

— Ronald Reagan

Too often, real policy improvements get drowned out by political talking points.

— Matt Rosendale

We will use political power as a tool to improve the lives of the people.

— Mayawati

Gun violence has cost us too many political leaders, and hardly ever the worst ones.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I don't think of myself in a political way, though I am definitely a feminist.

— Nicole Holofcener

We seem to have trouble with [critical thinking]. And our political system doesn't help.

— Barack Obama

The people believed that while the courts would be independent, they would defer to the political branches on policy issues.

— Sam Brownback

“There has never been a more important time to vote for the Green Party!”

— Steven Magee

Only a country that feels invulnerable can afford political turmoil as entertainment.

— Lionel Shriver

My view on Islam is that it is not so much a religion as a totalitarian political ideology with religious elements.

— Geert Wilders

Let's face it. Leftism is the political form of evil. And the left largely controls the modern West. Where, then, does that…

— Lawrence Auster

African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing.

— Jefferson Davis

You can't change Washington from the inside, you can only change it from the outside.

— Barack Obama

Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

— Anonymous

I was raised with the idea that if you're not smart enough to do science you can do politics.

— Michael Crichton