Political Quotes · Page 176

I'm really proud of this Supreme Court and the way they've been dealing with the issue of First Amendment political speech.

— Mitch McConnell

One of the fondest expressions around is that we can't be the world's policeman. But guess who gets called when suddenly someone…

— Colin Powell

It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.

— Carla Bley

If you would know the political and moral condition of a people, ask as to the position of its women.

— Aime Martin

The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose.

— George Orwell

Liberty is a political firewall that limits the damage government can do to the individual.

— James Bovard

Leonid Brezhnev did not understand the enormous political importance of the decision to produce and afterwards deploy the SS-20s.

— Helmut Schmidt

If you mention any ideological thing about shooting 'Last Tango in Paris,' I was thinking I was doing a political film.

— Bernardo Bertolucci

Our politics is very masculine, very aggressive, and it's very polarizing. And the pace of this development has increased in recent years.…

— Elif Safak

I didn't want to do an electro-class album or complex rap album. I wanted to do something that was kind of like…

— Le1f

Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman…

— Roland Joffe

We certainly cannot have any further political connection with the Whigs of the South; they have rendered such connection impossible. An impassable…

— Benjamin F. Wade

The future will belong to the nature-smart-those individuals, families, businesses, and political leaders who develop a deeper understanding of the transformative power…

— Richard Louv

Rajapaksa had said that giving political powers to Tamils is not his priority. He further stated that the majority Sinhalese are against…

— M. K. Stalin

If someone were to say, we should not letting Jews into the country, and people had a reaction against that, would that…

— Chris Hayes

I've been writing a lot about a new form of Russian imperialism. Actually, Russian Orthodox imperialism. It's very little remarked that the…

— Christopher Hitchens

I'm not a politician, She says evenly. If I want to be one, I'll run for office. Susan Sarandon, whom I know…

— Reese Witherspoon

The rise of casino capitalism and the punishing state with their vast apparatuses of real and symbolic violence must be also addressed…

— Henry Giroux

The creation of India and Pakistan were pyrrhic victories for their denizens because the political, socioeconomic, psychological, and culture havoc wreaked by…

— Nyla Ali Khan

So the state founded on natural principles is wise as a whole in virtue of the knowledge inherent in its smallest constituent…

— Plato

When anyone studies a little or pays a little attention to the rules of Islamic government, Islamic politics, Islamic society and Islamic…

— Ruhollah Khomeini

There are questions as to whether it should even exist. Who should corporations be responsive to, the management of a corporation? Theoretically…

— Noam Chomsky

The Greek tragedies and comedies are like a roadmap to all the ways in which trying to live this rich, full life…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

What's different now is that while political leaders used to give talking points to talk radio, now talk-radio hosts are giving talking…

— John Avlon

The left has viewed the coronavirus pandemic as a political 'opportunity' from the start.

— Charlie Kirk

I will not deny that there are men in the district better qualified than I to go to Congress, but gentlemen, these…

— Anonymous

I think about running for office someday and I know I'll always keep my foot in the political door.

— Jessica Tarlov

I have no time for political hacks who say things they don't believe because they get paid to,

— Tucker Carlson

Expectoration: If you go to a political rally, you should EXPECTORATION.

— Nikhil Saluja

The Civic Culture (and The Civic Culture Revisited) remains the best study of comparative political culture in our time.

— Aaron Wildavsky

The place where the system and people's intentions meet is the political arena.

— Peter Garrett

Political Science carries inseparably with it the study of piety, and that he who is not pious cannot be truly wise.

— Giambattista Vico

There's only one kind of tax that would please everybody - one that nobody but the other guy has to pay.

— Earl Wilson

There are two distinct classes of men - those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.

— Thomas Paine

The plain truth is that what holds a free state together is neither general will nor a common interest, but simply politics…

— Bernard Crick

In schoolbooks and in literature we can separate ecclesiastical and political history; in the life of mankind they are intertwined.

— Leopold von Ranke

If you have sense enough to realize why flies gather around a restaurant, you should be able to appreciate why men run…

— E. W. Howe

For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict.

— John le Carre

It seems to me that you would have to write a novel on a very small, intimate scale for it not to…

— Jonathan Coe

The political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes.

— Benazir Bhutto