Political Quotes · Page 179

Political perspective and the Cannes festival are linked almost as inextricably as fast-food consumption and detrimental effects on health.

— Elvis Mitchell

When modern political Zionism emerged around the turn of the twentieth century, most Orthodox Jews opposed it.

— David Novak

Paying more heed to the lessons of the past might teach us to be a little more cautious about some of the…

— Michael Morpurgo

China has no income tax, no unemployment and not a single soldier outside its borders.

— Zhou Enlai

The big umbrella issue is, do I make a bigger difference on the outside of political process or on the inside?

— Dan Bongino

The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political…

— Christopher Lasch

George Bush says, 'Gore's book needs a lot of explaining.' Of course, Bush says that about every book.

— Bill Maher

As I mentioned we have arrested or detained over 1,000 people here in America to determine to find out what they know.

— George W. Bush

Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying you have a political…

— Jose Saramago

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations…

— Mark Twain

There are few colonial nations anymore. Instead, we are colonized by financial institutions beyond our political control. We are colonized with pens…

— Charlie Pierce

Education, work, and access to health care for all are key elements for development and the just distribution of goods, for the…

— Pope Francis

The question about who God is is a very public question. We don't have the tools in this kind of political atmosphere…

— Francis George

For Russia, there is not and there may not be another political option but democracy. However, Russian democracy is... not at all…

— Vladimir Putin

The demerits of our own people bringh infamiy. Their disgrace is our own disgrace. That is why infamy os such people relly…

— Chanakya

I've been doing the 'Sherman's Lagoon' strip for about 18 years, and I was a political cartoonist before that for my hometown…

— Jim Toomey

...They are wise to the ways of Wall Street - and...getting their fair share of the loot.(:)...from who will be the head…

— Edgar Berman

The Trilateralist Commission is international...(and)...is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control…

— Barry Goldwater

The political awakening that is happening worldwide is a major challenge for America, because it means that the world is much more…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a…

— James Madison

So much of the United State's political relationship with Israel is based on culture. Israel is the only Westernized culture in the…

— Jill Soloway

This is me putting it simply; the politicians are one demographic and they see that Arizona is changing. I feel like the…

— Matt de la Pena

The more I think of a people calmly developing, in regions excluded from our sight and deemed uninhabitable by our sages, powers…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The progressive agenda is actually legitimated by the incomprehension and anger it elicits: If the people do not resent and resist what…

— George Will

Nobody should listen to me for political advice or on who to vote for. My job is not to convince people.

— Nate Bargatze

Medicare in particular will run out of money, and we will not be able to sustain that program no matter how much…

— Barack Obama

Although the connections are not always obvious, personal change is inseparable from social and political change.

— Harriet Lerner

Prison guard unions have become the powerful political forces in some states, particularly California.

— Michelle Alexander

“If you do not want to be lied to, then you need to stop following politics.”

— Steven Magee

Unemployment is bigger than a political party. It is a national danger and a national scandal.

— Ellen Wilkinson

You can't say 'I don't do politics,' because silence is a political statement.

— Tariq Ramadan

The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.

— Plato

I do think we need for a troop to be able to house his family. That's an important part of building morale…

— George W. Bush

I also think that [political turmoil] gives artists something, a way of kind of processing.

— Morgan Parker

Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.

— Edmund White

I don't think I'm a political songwriter as much as I am just a political person. I think it's in my fabric.

— Steve Earle

What drives 90 percent of stuff is not the small tactical decisions or the personal relationships but the big, macro political incentives.

— Daniel Pfeiffer

Corporations are may lesser commonwealths in the bowels of a greater, like worms in the entrails of a natural man.

— Thomas Hobbes

I believe that there are certain things that could be taken care of that you don't need a strong political background in.

— George Lopez

If somebody's dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they're going to have to take…

— Clint Eastwood