Political Quotes · Page 181

Let's face it: The Jewish community is the most active political community in American society.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

If I found in my own ranks that a certain number of guys wanted to cut my throat, I'd make sure that…

— Pierre Trudeau

The traits in career politicians the public detests most are produced when ego triumphs over principle.

— Tom Coburn

Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress

— Wendell Phillips

There are three main controllers of power here in Britain: the political establishment in Westminster, the BBC (MSM), and the Bank Of…

— Max Keiser

I prefer a positive view of freedom, drawing on another tradition of political thinking that goes all the way back to the…

— David Blunkett

Political columnists and sports pundits are rewarded for being overconfident.

— Daniel Kahneman

This sounds ridiculous, but my political inspiration is not Marx or Engels or ­anything like that. It was my mum.

— Emily Thornberry

Feminism has had exactly the same problem that "political correctness" has had: people keep using the phrase without really knowing what it…

— Caitlin Moran

It's very easy, if you come from a place like Pakistan, to imagine that there's a narrative of American aggression towards the…

— Mohsin Hamid

It's not a lack of competence that is preventing the [Barack] Obama administration from stopping these attacks. It is political correctness. We…

— Ted Cruz

I think President Bush is a moron! I think that the only reason he was voted into office is because his family…

— Cristian Machado

The biggest danger for a politician is to shake hands with a man who is physically stronger, has been drinking, and is…

— William Proxmire

Laws and mechanisms originally meant to enforce copyright, protect children and fight online crime are abused to silence or intimidate political critics.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

I do think a lot of brands shy away from politics, and that's a shame. I want BOB to be political, despite…

— Dawn O'Porter

If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat…

— Iris Chang

There's a lot of confusion about the political ideologies of both parties [Democrats and Republicans] have switched 180 degrees in 150 years.…

— Steven Spielberg

First of all, everyone must acknowledge and feel that child slavery still exists in the world, in its ugliest face and form.…

— Kailash Satyarthi

The question is gonna be, what is the pope doing? For whom is the pope doing it, if the pope is doing…

— Rush Limbaugh

Angela Davis's legacy as a freedom fighter made her an enemy of the state under the increasingly neoliberal regimes of Nixon, Reagan…

— Henry Giroux

Terrorists in 6 weeks have been able to command 300 million North Americans to do away with the entirety of their civil…

— Rocco Galati

I'm not in sympathy with Communism except for populations which are in a state of peasantry, actually hungry and starving. The ideal…

— Tennessee Williams

A lot of things that we cannot buy and sell in markets used to be totally legal objects of market exchange -…

— Ha-Joon Chang

The language of these Soviet show trials... could only be understood in the Aesopian imagery of the closed Bolshevik universe of conspiracies…

— Simon Sebag-Montefiore

When men organize themselves into groups, and they make rules based on common or self-interest, it's always tangled and political.

— Andrew Dominik

It is therefore wish'd that all commerce were as free between all the nations of the world as it is between the…

— Benjamin Franklin

Bashar Assad has said many things. We will see in the near term whether he is serious about a political process.

— Adel al-Jubeir

A citizen is a political and moral agent who in fact has a shared sense of hope and responsibility to others and…

— Henry Giroux

Who invented political tolerance? The English invented it, it's something which has taken roots with some difficulty in Scottish politics.

— Neal Ascherson

I don't care what the political establishment says, Republican, Democrat - I'm a problem solver.

— Elizabeth Emken

A political candidacy built around hope and change and compromise would eventually become a presidency of crisis and confrontation.

— Barack Obama

Every American should have above average income, and my Administration is going to see they get it.

— William J. Clinton

The artist can be above political parties, he can belong in a political party, he can act in politics.

— Eugene Ionesco

America's political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies.

— Al Gore

Those who control the wealth of this society have an influence over political life far in excess of their number.

— Michael Pare

Never was my political stance determined by the men I was with. I had my own ideas.

— Gioconda Belli

There are enough fools in Washington to destroy the country without any help from Muslim terrorists.

— Paul Craig Roberts

All of political history history can be summed up as a struggle to throw the bad guys out and put the good…

— John Pugsley

Political pornography is not unlike the sexual kind: difficult to define, but you know it when you see it

— Pat Sajak

The purpose of the Senate is to keep 100 middle aged knuckleheads out of the private sector where they can do real harm.

— P. J. O'Rourke