Political Quotes · Page 180

Let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation.

— Abraham Lincoln

Torture remains unacceptable and unjustified at all times, including during states of emergency, political instability, or even in a war.

— Antonio Guterres

The views I have, the books I write, are read as political, or even as manifestos.

— Olga Tokarczuk

Feminism has led the way in demystifying personal relations, forcefully insisting they are political to the core.

— Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

An opposition that won't oppose paralyses our political and democratic system.

— Gina Miller

My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility.

— Holly Near

If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political.

— Stephen Bayley

Political debate is more interested in manipulating the truth, than finding the truth.

— George Soros

As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for…

— Baron de Montesquieu

When I was younger, I jumped out of a moving car. I would do anything. Now, being a father and knowing the…

— Nick Frost

Both the Obama and Romney campaigns said they pulled all their political ads today in observance of the September 11th anniversary. But…

— Mara Liasson

Redistricting is a deeply political process, with incumbents actively seeking to minimize the risk to themselves (via bipartisan gerrymanders) or to gain…

— Thomas E. Mann

All secret oath-bound political parties are dangerous to any nation, no matter how pure or how patriotic the motives and principles which…

— Ulysses S. Grant

And let me say this as a politician I can promise you this, political leaders will never take risks if the people…

— Barack Obama

Among the droves of men with political ambitions in the United States, I found very few with that virile candor, that manly…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

I mean I grew up in Ireland, so one would have to be consciously blinkered not to have reflected on the issue…

— Neil Jordan

I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have…

— Nelson Mandela

Scientists constantly get clobbered with the idea that we spent 27 billion dollars on the Apollo programs, and are asked "What more…

— Carl Sagan

The usual terminology of political language is stupid. What is 'left' and what is 'right'? Why should Hitler be 'right' and Stalin,…

— Ludwig von Mises

The message I'm trying to send is that technology is political, and that many decisions that look like decisions about technology actually…

— Evgeny Morozov

The Bush Administration, and particularly Bush's chief political strategist and Deputy Chief of Staff, Karl Rove, have been expert in both galvanizing…

— Sidney Blumenthal

Failure is a big part of a free market's success. People fail to live up to their potential, or to carry out…

— Thomas Sowell

Probably the only people left who think that economics deserves a Nobel Prize are economists. It confirms their conceit that they're doing…

— Robert J. Samuelson

I think the place maybe to watch with the greatest worry right at the moment, and to try to help the most,…

— Donald Trump

It is not a sensible or intelligent response for us in Europe to ridicule American arguments and parody their political leadership.

— Tony Blair

My goal is to bring moustaches back, I don't think they are respected enough. In my new film it's political, it's a…

— Brad Pitt

Cannes Film Festival prefers political films. We have to target certain festivals based on our films.

— Vetrimaaran

All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I've gone off the top, into total fantasy.

— Eddie Campbell

There are many young Americans that are very distant from our political process.

— Kurt Angle

You don't make peace with your friends. That's the bottom line. You end conflicts by trying to find some political resolution.

— Hillary Clinton

To the very limited extent that I have a political consciousness, to some extent I'm a lazy, apolitical sort of guy that…

— William Gibson

I cannot suggest political ways out, that is the task of politicians, so it is simply that those who accuse me of…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

There was in Italy a hidden demand for a boring government which would try to tell the truth in non-political jargon.

— Mario Monti

I'm pretty much done with political commentary. I've said everything I could possibly say. I've been a big mouth for long enough.

— David Draiman

Holder's Justice Department is not the shield of justice, it has become the shield for Obama's political transgressions.

— Wayne LaPierre

Institutions are increasingly persuaded that political maneuvering is more important than scientific justification in securing federal funds.

— Mildred Dresselhaus

Health care, it's going to be political. It's going to be, let's say, the confluence of the politics and the messy implementation.

— Mark Shields

100 political parties put together can never defeat the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, come 2015 presidential election.

— Patience Jonathan

Holy scripture does not hold women back. It's the people that decide to interpret it in such a way for their own,…

— Queen Rania of Jordan

A lot has been said about politics; some of it complimentary, but most of it accurate

— Eric Idle