Political Quotes · Page 154

Experience shows that when political governance and economic management diverge, overall development becomes unsustainable.

— Mo Ibrahim

Too often our Washington reflex is to discover a problem and then throw money at it, hoping it will somehow go away.

— Kenneth Keating

I grew up in a very political household. My mum used to shout at the television. At Mrs. Thatcher.

— Cherie Lunghi

Discipline our youth in early life in sound maxims of moral, political, and religious duties.

— Noah Webster

All great political families have myths: stories they tell themselves about how history happened.

— Peggy Noonan

Too often, Indian tribes are at the mercy of the shifting political winds of State government.

— Jim Costa

Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?

— Patrick Stewart

'Farscape' is a fabulous vehicle for looking at ethical, moral, political, and social issues.

— Bonnie Hammer

The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether…

— James Madison

Filmmaking became a possible way for me to combine my interest in photography and in gathering stories, as well as my interest…

— Joshua Marston

Stabilizing economies and reducing political and civil strife are means to development and, as such, are part of the approach for promoting…

— Tedros Adhanom

No political movement can avoid the reality of desire in its midst. Every office building is full of the illicit affairs, the…

— Amber Hollibaugh

A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay…

— Will Durant

I've been a politician and so I'm sometimes cynical about what politicians won't do. When I hear a politician say something that…

— Allan Boesak

I never desire to know anything of the detail of political measures, lest even those which I think best should lose anything…

— Fanny Kemble

What I've found in being around political people is they're willing to negotiate their ideology somewhere around 5 percent. They believe that's…

— Stephen A. Schwarzman

Our yearning for democracy is accompanied by a no less profound yearning for peace. And the media also faced the task of…

— Noam Chomsky

In the end I created a career of my own, concentrating on my writing and lecturing, reaching larger audiences than I would…

— Michael Parenti

When caring for your neighbor becomes a compulsory obligation imposed by government instead of voluntary, charity turns to confiscation and freedom to…

— Star Parker

Empathy is like a universal solvent. Any problem immersed in empathy becomes soluble. It is effective as a way of anticipating and…

— Simon Baron-Cohen

The Baltic republics have invented something totally new. Do you know what? They use the word 'non-citizens' for people who have been…

— Vladimir Putin

The [Burmese] government appears to be more interested in stamping out political activity than drug addiction. Very few university students on the…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

I think the idea that the hedge fund manager gets lower taxes than the taxi driver or the physics professor is insane.…

— Charlie Munger

I think what we're hopeful is through this Syrian process, working with coalition members, working with the U.N., and in particular working…

— Rex W. Tillerson

Anything having to do with what is happening inside people has political significance to me. That is why I like the term…

— Marianne Williamson

My job as Labour Home Secretary is to ensure people are prepared to listen to us when we take on our opponents…

— David Blunkett

If greater openness is a key to economic success, I believe there is increasingly a need for openness in the political sphere…

— Paul Wolfowitz

You have to spend your political capital on great causes for your country.

— Brian Mulroney

Yes, for my undergrad I majored in Criminal Justice and minored in Political Science and English.

— Matthew McGrory

From the U.S., we need strong political support for the Ukrainian peace plan - the Minsk agreement.

— Petro Poroshenko

I don't view myself as a political leftie. I view myself as a storyteller who is fair to both sides.

— Tim Robbins

We're fighting people that hates our values, they can't stand what America stands for.

— George W. Bush

I hope that just what I sing about and how I relate to my audience is as much of a political statement…

— Dave Matthews

We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built.

— Larry Niven

I'm a bit too old for anarchy. If I was younger I might be more political but I'm married with kids and…

— Ben Eine

The one thing government has which we (you or I or any corporation) DON'T have, is the ability to use deadly force…

— Neal Boortz

As much as some people like to put down 'political correctness,' if it wasn't for political correctness, I wouldn't be free right…

— W. Kamau Bell

In spite of the anticapitalistic policies of all governments and of almost all political parties, the capitalist mode of production

— Ludwig von Mises

“Having two non-functional parties is not a democracy, it's a losing coin flip.”

— Russ Lippitt

In my case I've never not been political, though religion tended to overshadow it in my acid days.

— John Lennon