Political Quotes · Page 151

I always try to put a strong political context, as a backdrop, in my films.

— Kabir Khan

I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.

— Andrew Greeley

“It is better to recognise that we are in darkness than to pretend that we can see the light”

— Hedley Bull

I stated at Justice [John] Roberts' hearing, the court's injected itself into many of the political debates of our day.

— Sam Brownback

I think a lot of bad things have happened in the name of the church and in the name of Christ. Therefore…

— John Lennon

The Left/Right scale is a misleading way of comparing political systems. It doesn't measure anything.

— Marshall Fritz

If somebody did a new show that, within a family, had conflicting political views, that would be great.

— Justine Bateman

I think (the internet) is contributing to Chinese political engagement..access to the outside world is preventing more censorship.

— Bill Gates

'Posh' is not really political. I didn't want to aim a brickbat at the system. Or to bash Old Etonians. It was…

— Laura Wade

That tertiary education is under a sustained assault by a political and - it often seems - social consensus that equates all…

— Will Self

The executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them, to the end that it may be a…

— John Adams

...History shows that ... (people) can be deflected from their natural tendencies by artful propaganda, bogus crises, or other political trickery.

— Robert Higgs

It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial…

— Gerrit Smith

I've learned to have absolutely no regrets about any jokes I've ever done You can tune me out, you can click me…

— Joan Rivers

Taxation is not a method by which the community corporately provides itself with essential services, but a fund to be divided between…

— Neville Chamberlain

One of the things I miss most about the U.K. is political TV, and I have one of those little gadgets, which…

— Raza Jaffrey

That was a brave and principled thing for Ecuador to do [give me asylum application]. Now we have the U.S. election [campaign],…

— Julian Assange

In college, in the early 1950s, I began to learn a little about how science works, the secrets of its great success,…

— Carl Sagan

Naturally, the common people don't want war ... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy,…

— Hermann Goring

I don't necessarily believe there's a message in the fact that I'm an African-American Republican. I think there is a message that…

— Tim Scott

Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men's protection and the base of a moral existence.…

— Ayn Rand

Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard…

— Albert Camus

During the '80s, those you would call the young philosophers of France, such as Bernard-Henri Lévy and [André ] Gluxman, pointed out…

— Catherine Camus

The constitutional right of free expression... is designed and intended to remove governmental restraints from the arena of public discussion, putting the…

— John Marshall Harlan II

What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to seek to justify.

— Henry A. Kissinger

I'm a bit of a political geek anyway, so you tend to write how you think the rhythms of an administration will…

— Armando Iannucci

The reason we have a Cuban Adjustment Act is because, at the beginning, they [migrants] were fleeing political persecution.

— Marco Rubio

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Jesus is not from Georgia. Jesus does not speak English. And Jesus is not a member of the NRA.

— Robert Wright

Terrorism cannot be isolated from its political, historical, and even social context.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.

— Edward Abbey

Am I right in saying that the locust of this problem is simply that judges in America are half political animals and…

— Dahlia Lithwick

The typical socialist... a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaler and often with vegetarian leanings.

— George Orwell

Just saw a t-shirt at the gym said, body by torture. That's a lot less ironic if you're a political prisoner in…

— Dov Davidoff

We felt that although they were patchy, there was a tremendous political energy in the Henry plays.

— Edward Hall

The career politicians in Washington had transformed a government "for the people" into a government for themselves and for special interests.

— Tom Coburn

Being a son of the pastor, I was never allowed to play Joseph or any of the big parts for political reasons.

— Tom Ellis

The only valid political system is one that can handle an imbecile in power without suffering from it

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The political face of Europe is one that has said very clearly that it wants cooperation and friendship with the United States.

— Condoleezza Rice

As a political spouse, I've found that my stoicism often serves me well.

— Jill Biden