Political Quotes · Page 160

Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct.

— Adam Smith

When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance.

— Oscar Niemeyer

I do feel more myself in America. I can regress there, and they have roller-coaster parks.

— Alan Rickman

I mean, I'm a political figure in Russia for more than 10 years... This is how people in Russia know me.

— Ksenia Sobchak

Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.

— Alfred de Vigny

Neoliberalism isn't an economic program - it's a political program designed to produce hopelessness and kill any future alternatives.

— David Graeber

Although I come from a political family, I consider myself a slightly atypical politician.

— Kyriakos Mitsotakis

The arts can bring the heart to the aid of the head, the personal to the political.

— Scilla Elworthy

If a source gives us material that is of political, diplomatic, ethical or historical significance that has not been published before and…

— Julian Assange

Unfortunately, the media, which are not at all reluctant to act in their own self-interest, have succeeded in equating reform in the…

— James L. Buckley

Hollywood is right. A good and strong movie can have a more powerful social impact than any and all political speeches or…

— Mike Royko

The state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a…

— Aristotle

For a few political turncoats there is real excuse. One can hardly blame those whom one ministry have seen fit to throw…

— Dorothy Nevill

Our country, if you read the 'Federalist Papers,' is about disagreement. It's about pitting faction against faction, divided government, checks and balances.…

— Jonah Goldberg

It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom. It is the accumulated indignation against organized wrong, organized…

— Emma Goldman

Lincoln's address at Gettysburg - 272 words dedicating a cemetery at the site of one of the Civil War's bloodiest battles -…

— Mike Quigley

“The regime had understood that one person leaving her house while asking herself: Are my trousers long enough? Is my veil in…

— Marjane Satrapi

I still think that the point of reference for every Indian when he is in doubt on any political or social issue…

— Khushwant Singh

The very function of creativity, of the elaboration of the human condition only enlarges the human spirit and, I mean, as a…

— Wole Soyinka

There must appear a spiritual and moral leadership rising above economic and political situations. Governments in both their domestic and foreign policies…

— John Haynes Holmes

Demand that your government pays more attention. It's immoral that people in Africa die like flies of diseases that no one dies…

— William J. Clinton

“The view of Central America as a region to be kept "safe" for American corporations was naturally not shared by all the…

— Stephen Schlesinger

So far in facing this huge [peak oil] challenge, our political/economic system seems unable to cope with reality. We are forced to…

— Madeleine Bunting

From the fact of general well-being came the new position of the poor. They were now in most communities a minority. The…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Poor, successful, fallible Republican party! If it could only have kept the purity of the patriot impulse of which it was born!

— Candace Wheeler

The taxing power of the Federal Government, my dear; the taxing power is sufficient for everything you want and need.

— Harlan F. Stone

I don't see people voting for me for coming from a political family. I see people voting for me despite me coming…

— Kyriakos Mitsotakis

We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas.

— Mac Thornberry

You don't need to spend tens of millions of dollars on political consultants to tell you what you think when you already…

— John Bolton

“Any political philosophy is perfect in a given moment...but moments are fleeting.”

— Michele Poague

Australia will always be closer to the U.S. than she is to China because our values and political traditions are much closer.

— John Howard

If you disagree with your government, that's political. If you disagree with your government that is approaching theocracy, then you're evil.

— Margaret Atwood

The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.

— Bill Vaughan

Theresa May is not given to grand declarations about her political philosophy.

— Nick Boles

I'm a big believer that as much as possible, and there's obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing.

— Bill Gates

I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in…

— Robert Hass

But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think,…

— Chris Patten

A successful current affairs television show seems to be more and more a cross between a music hall turn and a scene…

— Harold MacMillan

“[T]he choice of human groupings for cultural comparisons is not a natural or scientific choice, but a political one.”

— Pascal Boyer

The Federalists also used bribes, intimidation, and fraud against opponents of the Constitution.

— Michael Parenti