Political Quotes · Page 155

It's important that people understand who I am and where I come from and not just have it shaped by purely political…

— Justin Trudeau

In this era of political correctness, some people seem unaware that being squeamish about words can mean being blind to realities.

— Thomas Sowell

Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.

— Barbara Mikulski

We must not waste life in devising means. It is better to plan less and do more.

— William Ellery Channing

He that shall peruse the political pamphlets of any past reign will wonder why they were so eagerly read, or so loudly…

— Samuel Johnson

The republican model described in the Hebrew Scriptures reassured pious Americans that republicanism was a political system favored by God.

— Daniel L Dreisbach

The challenge in working in politics, particularly if you're working for a political party, is that everyone's a messenger.

— Frank Luntz

I don't like things I work on to have political didacticism - there are questions, but not messages.

— Jonathan Nolan

We all either work for rich people or we sell stuff to rich people. So just punishing rich people is as bad…

— Rand Paul

If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Political events are part of everyday life [in Colombia], so art and politics came to me as a natural thing, something that…

— Doris Salcedo

But when you look at the rubbish who are getting these awards and the absolute non-service they have given to the nation…

— Michael Winner

The newspapers of the twenty-first century will give a mere 'stick' in the back pages to accounts of crime or political controversies,…

— Nikola Tesla

Are your kids learning the right lessons about 9/11? Ten years after Osama bin Laden's henchmen murdered thousands of innocents on American…

— Michelle Malkin

In our sensible zeal to keep religion from dominating our politics, we have created a political and legal culture that presses the…

— Stephen L. Carter

You can have a broad popular democracy movement and have it end being taken over by the most vicious people and the…

— Donald Rumsfeld

[John] Adams identified himself with the political theories of [James] Harrington, [John] Locke, and [Charles-Louis] Montesquieu, whose ideas of constitutionalism, he believed,…

— Gordon S. Wood

[American] conformism might approximate collectivism, not so much in economic respects, and not too much in political respects, but very much in…

— Paul Tillich

For decades, since the mid-twentieth century, the nationalist movement, and Fatah in particular, has dominated the political scene. Palestinian politics were primarily…

— Hanan Ashrawi

It's not the possibility of Stalinism in the U.S. that's worrying me, it's the fact that the Stalinist C.P. seems doomed to…

— John Dos Passos

The autobiographer looks at life through the lens of his or her own life and really uses herself or himself as the…

— Maya Angelou

Think of lab rats racing through a maze, when you watch the sub-intelligent, dual-panel 'dialogue' conducted on the teli. Each rat runs…

— Ilana Mercer

On the one hand, the Republicans are telling industrial workers that the high cost of food in the cities is due to…

— Harry S. Truman

We ain't gonna fight no reactionary pigs who run up and down the street being reactionary; we're gonna organize and dedicate ourselves…

— Fred Hampton

Political books are so often written from the perspective of the politicians, not from the point of view of the people.

— Jess Phillips

It is the Press which has corrupted our political morals - and it is to the Press we must look for the…

— Alexander Hamilton

The aggressive, energised, political, or even politicised, culturally aware music hasn't really existed [recently].

— Moby

No partisan political activity transpired in my office during the recount period.

— Katherine Harris

The political spin in Washington is revolting, just revolting. It's a callous political game.

— Rob Bishop

My sister is not interested in any political positions; not in Rajya Sabha or anything else.

— Naveen Patnaik

Sisters, brothers and the whities, Blacks and the crackers, Police and their backers, They're all political actors

— Curtis Mayfield

This is a free country, and nobody should be criticized for their political beliefs. We're all allowed to have our opinions.

— Shannen Doherty

If you do not force political freedom, economic freedom will be stymied sooner or later.

— Milton Friedman

Our party's agenda is not only to form a government, but also to facilitate a political process.

— Mehbooba Mufti

I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.

— Howard Nemerov

We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life.

— Max Lerner

Expressing political opinion can be a powerful way to establish a character's voice when writing fiction.

— Jen Lancaster

A lot of the political change that could happen is going to be super boring.

— Melissa Gira Grant

The political spin in Washington is revolting, just revolting. Its a callous political game.

— Rob Bishop

Whatever your personal political feelings are, if you become involved in them publicly you're bound to come out the loser.

— Dusty Springfield