Political Quotes · Page 162

“... while madness in individuals is relatively rare, it is virtually a prerequisite for a certain sort of political leader.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

I resent the idea that Israel is part of the political agenda in United States' campaigns, really.

— Tzipi Livni

I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.

— Aneurin Bevan

Mexican leadership has been doing serious damage to the United States by out-negotiating our representatives and political leaders.

— Donald Trump

“Individuals watching Yiannopoulos on YouTube do not have the same political potential as when they are physically grouped.”

— Mark Bray

One of the things that I've been doing over the past few years is reevaluating my own powers of political analysis.

— Tony Blair

In Europe public men do resign. But here it's a lost art. You have to impeach 'em.

— Will Rogers

If I was a political mercenary, I would be using my talents in another line of work.

— David Brock

To get your name well enough known that you can run for a public office, some people do it by being great…

— John Glenn

Relationship films are political. If a woman is sitting in a waiting room in an office and a man walks in and…

— Sydney Pollack

In historical and constitutional terms, the recent political status vote in Puerto Rico was a necessary but obviously not decisive step on…

— Dick Thornburgh

It is not what your supporters, friends or your political adversaries call you that matters. What is important is what you think…

— Vladimir Putin

Every film has a political side. It's something that you cannot ignore. Politics is a part of everything, it's how we speak,…

— Tamer El Said

I'm not - I'm not a person looking for money. I have no political ambitions whatsoever. I don't seek power. I don't…

— Carl Paladino

Politics and self-interest have been so uniformly connected, that the world, from being so often deceived, has a right to be suspicious…

— Thomas Paine

Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color.…

— Wislawa Szymborska

We have power... Our power isn’t in a political system, or a religious system, or in an economic system, or in a…

— John Trudell

Here's a president who gets 47 or 48 percent of the vote and takes 100 percent of the power, as if he…

— Howard Zinn

A lot of people who voted for Barack Obama expected and were led to expect something new in politics: a new tone…

— Bernard Goldberg

If I have learned one thing from life, it is that race is the engine that drives the political Left. When all…

— Ward Connerly

Political philosophy is realistically utopian when it extends what are ordinarily thought to be the limits of practicable political possibility and, in…

— John Rawls

Basically [United States and France] said "We will use nuclear weapons whenever it suits our purposes to do so." So this expansion…

— John Burroughs

In restating this basic Christian doctrine, Benedict argues that it is not only for Christians alone. Others may not share the Christian…

— Raymond J. de Souza

This nation is on a course where if we don't do something about it, get federal situation, the fiscal policy [under control],…

— Judd Gregg

The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.

— Mark Twain

Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?

— Steven Pinker

The two great cultural and political currents of Italy have always only been concerned with the masses.

— Emma Bonino

In the modern world, we Americans are the old inhabitants. We first had political freedom, high industrial production, an economy of abundance.

— Paul Goodman

The difference between them and us is that we want to check government spending and they want to spend government checks.

— Ronald Reagan

It's a rarity when someone takes a political risk in Washington today in the public interest.

— Arlen Specter

With that radio I was always swimming with the current political streams in the West. I was never stranded.

— Lennart Meri

Political parties are complicated coalitions and aren't excessively theoretical.

— William Kristol

I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally.

— Bill Maher

There is no question that Taiwan is a state in any political science definition of a state.

— Anonymous

People are sick of the false choice between the established political parties who take voters for granted.

— Luciana Berger

That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.

— Beatrice Webb

If I had to choose one which best characterized the condition of being a political leader in Athens, the word would be…

— Moses Finley

Maybe I'll create a guidebook for future political spouses: the dos and don'ts in D.C.

— Louise Linton

Certainly there are various trans-Islamic political movements, which try to appeal to Muslims in all societies.

— Samuel P. Huntington

Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to…

— Jack London