Political Quotes · Page 187

We are very cautious in judging [Donald Trump], especially as he wasn't in a political position before.

— Bashar al-Assad

Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.

— Tom Lehrer

The energy I was sensing in audiences was political energy, as much as anything else.

— Michael Pollan

Even with the right political climate, would the wrong people refrain from doing the wrong thing?

— William A. Dembski

The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than…

— Will Rogers

It's time for democrats to grow a backbone and stand up for what we believe.

— Deval Patrick

Those who claim absolutism is merely a myth are right that it has been misused simply as a byword for political centralisation.

— Peter Wilson

Careerism in Washington "goes to the heart of what's wrong in America right now."

— Tom Coburn

Some African leaders actually dare to suggest that democracy is a concept alien to traditional African society. This is one of the…

— Wole Soyinka

Hope is different from optimism. Hope is a tough virtue, not a psychological predisposition. Hope insists on taking facts and reason into…

— E. J. Dionne

If I had died it would have been even better for you political bratchnies, would it not, pretending and treacherous droogs as…

— Anthony Burgess

Few, if any, political analysts predicted the Arab Spring. The raw energy of millions of protestors in the streets of Tunis and…

— Munira Mirza

Is political discourse still just shouting opinions about subjective, hot-button issues based on poor understanding and outright ignorance about which agreements can…

— Jeffrey Rowland

The population question is the real riddle of the sphinx, to which no political Oedipus has as yet found the answer. In…

— Thomas Huxley

To me, you have to declare yourself a Chicano in order to be a Chicano. That makes a Chicano a Mexican-American with…

— Cheech Marin

[Rosa Louise] Parks used to say, "Everybody looks at me because I sat down once in Montgomery, but the real hero is…

— Marian Wright Edelman

I think our former first lady said it last month in one of her first speeches since leaving the White House, I…

— Andrew Zimmern

They, the conservatives, are the real outsides, they tell us, gazing with disgust upon the ludicrous manners of the high and mighty.…

— Thomas Frank

That, in part, is why the Constitution's framers gave justices life tenure ? to enable them to rule wherever the law and…

— Gerald R. Ford

There are some monuments where the land is so widespread, they just encompass as much as possible. And the integral part of…

— George W. Bush

Scripture says: "Blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted." I call on every American family and the family of…

— George W. Bush

If libertarianism were easy to explain, and it weren't easy to exaggerate the effects of libertarianism, I think it would have been…

— P. J. O'Rourke

[For men] to feel their souls withering within them, unthanked, to find their whole being sunk into an unrecognized abyss, to be…

— John Ruskin

So, Wesley Clark is running for president. Pretty amazing guy. Four star general, first in his class at West Point, supreme commander…

— Jay Leno

We tell our thoughts, like our children, to put on their hats and coats before they go out.

— Henry Watson Fowler

The Democratic party today is not so much a political party as a milling herd, and the herd is easily stampeded.

— Emmett Tyrrell

The American military will never lose the war in Iraqif lost, it will be lost by a lack of political will.

— Joe Lieberman

I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.

— Naguib Mahfouz

No rising hope on the political scene who offered his services to Labour when I happened to be its leader can be…

— Michael Foot

My dad was a city councilman and a county commissioner, so I grew up involved and engaged in the political process.

— Bill Huizenga

When these political action committees give money, they expect something in return other than good government.

— Bob Dole

I have the happy circumstance of either being accused of political grandstanding on the one hand or cover-ups on the other.

— Ben Chandler

There is so much corruption in India that some filmmakers were using political or administrative sources to get access.

— Vivek Agnihotri

“Think about the precedents you are setting. It's the Left that runs the world on reckless emotionalism. Don't join.”

— Michelle Malkin

I came up in left-wing political writing. My first job out of college was working as Gore Vidal's fact checker.

— Morgan Neville

You have to be a political leader, willing to lose an election if you want to do what's right.

— Scott Pelley

You don't want political acts to become something you just have to do in order to look good.

— MO

Twelve states in the Great Plains have a wind energy potential greater then the electric use of our entire nation.

— Michael Pare

If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.

— Anonymous

So on behalf of a well-oiled unit of people who came together to serve something greater than themselves, congratulations.

— George W. Bush