Political Quotes · Page 178

If they did not want President Obama in office, why are they prepping another black man for office?

— Steve Polydor

If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.

— Tony Benn

The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.

— James Tobin

I'm not a professional political analyst, so my political analysis is worth about what you pay for it.

— Sharyl Attkisson

Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other…

— Hans Rosling

Political division, based on color, is entirely artificial; and when it disappears, so will the domination of one color group by another.

— Nelson Mandela

Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.

— Kapil Dev

The political bug first bit me was Malcolm Fraser's resignation from the Gorton Government.

— George Brandis

While the Christian faith clearly teaches that believers are to be involved as good citizens in the state, nevertheless, it is obvious…

— J.P. Moreland

I went to work at political consulting firms, graphic design and communications firms and ultimately, magazines. Today, my career is in the…

— Lewis Schiff

I have never had, nor will I ever have, any [political] ambitions. The only thing on which I have always set my…

— Fethullah Gulen

Our plan will not favor religious institutions over nonreligious institutions. As president, I'm interested in what is constitutional and I'm interested in…

— George W. Bush

Politics colours everything, and anyone who wants change is necessarily political. As an environmental campaigner more or less since I left school…

— Zac Goldsmith

The problem is this. The spread of markets outpaces the ability of societies and their political systems to adjust to them, let…

— Kofi Annan

Syriza is what it is: a radical, left-wing party that feels the pulse of the times, knows what's at stake, and is…

— Alexis Tsipras

It's always more interesting to make a movie about what is relevant in your society. What's the political global backdrop? What are…

— Gerard Butler

The right tends to posit that the market fuels social good. The left tends to posit that the government fuels social good.…

— Marianne Williamson

But the problems of perpetuating a hierarchical society go deeper than this. There are only four ways in which a ruling group…

— George Orwell

When we hear about rent control or gun control, we may think about rent or guns but the word that really matters…

— Thomas Sowell

I think at every moment in the last probably 100 years, when the institutional church had the opportunity to do the right…

— Anna Quindlen

The way in which a certain kind of political idealism has been discredited and scorned makes the danger not that intellectuals keep…

— Susan Sontag

I fear that, as conditions worsen, many will react to the failures of too much government by calling for even more government.…

— Neal A. Maxwell

It's a historical phenomenon that in 250 years, a nation could move from a colony into the most prosperous nation of the…

— Vladimir Putin

I have a perhaps naive point of view informed by my own kind of snowflake-in-the-unique-sense rather than the political sense, personal story.…

— Lydia Polgreen

At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political.

— Douglas Sirk

Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom realty.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

No one should be written off because of their background. This is a moral proposition but it is also an important political…

— Damian Green

Independence is never given to a people, it has to be earned; and, once earned, must be defended.

— Chaim Weizmann

As far as reading is concerned, I like historical and political books and works of art.

— Naveen Patnaik

Festering political problems do not go away simply because they are kept in a dark corner.

— Geert Wilders

Palin may be a polarizing figure, but she's more than just a 'political personality.'

— Dana Loesch

Short term political calculations of the past must give way to long-term investments for the future.

— Chris Sununu

The shortcomings of America's political leaders do not stop at our borders.

— Ralph Nader

Well, Bill, I don't think you're going to find many shy people that are in the political business.

— Scott McCallum

The Endangered Species Act was designed to preserve biodiversity, not enrich trial lawyers and political activists.

— George P. Bush

Life's saving graces are love, pleasure, laughter ... wisdom, it seems, is for the Hereafter.

— Michael R. Burch

Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.

— Ambrose Bierce

If I'm the president, I will call in all the different political opinions to come together and to make one front to…

— Enrique Pena Nieto

Every collectivist assumes a different source for the collective will, according to his own political, religious and national convictions.

— Ludwig von Mises

In more stable political times, a low turnout in the E.U. elections was a luxury we could afford.

— Gina Miller