Political Quotes · Page 161

Maintaining silence about a dirty truth is another way of lying, a common practice in high places.

— Michael Parenti

I would love to believe that my political judgment is impeccable, but it's not.

— Leo Varadkar

There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success.

— Lord Acton

If we disagree and I think I'm right, I just go ahead and do what I think is right. And then she…

— William J. Clinton

Political power does not rest with those who cast votes; political power rests with those who count votes.

— Joseph Stalin

A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

— Murray Kempton

The Obama administration has an undeniable pattern of using regulatory overreach and intimidation to further its political aims.

— Ron Johnson

The political system loves the extremes, it doesnt so much show a lot love for the moderates.

— Claire McCaskill

What really alarms me about President Bush's 'War on Terrorism' is the grammar. How do you wage war on an abstract noun?…

— Terry Jones

Politics, as a profession, is not about making the right political decision. It's about making the right decision and then managing the…

— Jason Kander

I had always thought about running for high political office, and I was kind of waiting for the stars to line up.…

— Matt Cartwright

I don't need to have my convictions confirmed by a show of numbers. However, being among people in front of a band…

— Henry Rollins

I have three favorite politicians: Reagan, Truman, and Bobby Kennedy - Bobby for showing remarkable political courage despite being loathed by many…

— Joe Scarborough

I'm the rap version of Dave Chappelle. I'm not sayin' I'm nearly as talented as Chappelle when it comes to political and…

— Kanye West

I still am of the opinion that the establishment types and the left, they still don't know what they're dealing with here.…

— Rush Limbaugh

I am a Yugoslav nationalist, aiming for the unification of all Yugoslavs, and I do not care what form of state, but…

— Gavrilo Princip

This is what oligarchy looks like: Today, the top one-tenth of 1 percent owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90…

— Bernie Sanders

The discovery of electrical waves... has had a profound influence on civilization; it has been instrumental in providing the methods which may…

— Joseph John Thomson

This fear of criticism displayed by the advocates of freedom of criticism cannot be attributed solely to craftiness. No, the majority of…

— Vladimir Lenin

The point of asylum is not to declare to the world what country you think is the pinnacle of civilization. The point…

— Glenn Greenwald

Incrementalism: In the first generation, the goal of the movement was wholesale social and cultural transformation. Small, incremental victories were too little…

— Kenneth D. Wald

Christian love draws no distinction between one enemy and another, except that the more bitter our enemy's hatred, the greater his need…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

On the eve of the election last month my wife Judith and I were driving home late in the afternoon and turned…

— Bill Moyers

There's not a big range in the political poetry of the last year, or not a political range. On the one hand,…

— David Biespiel

I did learn that some of the things that are great for locker rooms are inappropriate for political discourse. That's a wisdom…

— George Allen

I was a political junkie from an early age; I got a front row seat on something I love to do.

— Sarah Huckabee Sanders

We're concerned about AIDS inside our White House - make no mistake about it.

— George W. Bush

“To really change the world, we have to help people change the way they see things.”

— Suzy Kassem

German Marxian's coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.

— Ludwig von Mises

One wonders how far spiritual and political leaders can genuinely lead us without some degree of mystical seeing and action.

— Richard Rohr

There is a century-old saying, "The dollar votes more times than the man."

— Michael Parenti

“The decrease in the number of killings doesn’t make any difference if the society has to sleep with the ghosts of the…

— Nilantha Ilangamuwa

I've never worried about payback. People are hungry for leadership that's not afraid of political consequence.

— Wendy Davis

There is no monopoly on common sense on either side of the political fence.

— Sting

DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment.

— Ambrose Bierce

Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.

— Jane Rule

I know the good from the bad, also the in-between, but I was never political.

— Luise Rainer

I am not a propagandist; my work has often had a political dimension but, hopefully, one that is not didactic and is…

— Cornelia Parker

Mankind will never see an end of trouble until lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power…

— Anonymous

The National Debt is a very Good Thing and it would be dangerous to pay it off for fear of Political Economy.

— W. C. Sellar