Political Quotes · Page 188

Hollywood has always been political. They consider it their right and duty to tell us what is politically good and right.

— Mike Royko

Politics, as any observer of the modern world knows, is the enemy of economics, everywhere and always.

— John Derbyshire

Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?

— Abbie Hoffman

Even today with the public's growing interest in food and diet issues, politicians rarely include food as part of their political platforms.

— Anonymous

Every child is so helpless - just to survive he has to be political, he has to accept whatsoever the parents are…

— Rajneesh

We all know that in war the political and military factors have to complement each other.

— Nguyen Cao Ky

Folk music had long been political but [Bob] Dylan's poetry took it to a new level.

— Jay Michaelson

Data allow your political judgments to be based on fact, to the extent that numbers describe realities.

— Hans Rosling

Politicians learned hundreds of years ago that people who had little material wealth were incredibly jealous of those who had more than…

— Neal Boortz

For political and bureaucratic reasons, governments at all levels are telling far less to the public than to insiders about how to…

— Barton Gellman

“Nothing is sweeter and addictive than power, the unlucky soul this demon possesses, if he is not sacrificed on its altar will…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign. Inept political…

— Theodore C. Sorensen

While legislation obviously is political, we now have allowed regulation to become politicized, which we believe will likely lead to some bad…

— Jamie Dimon

Politics is still crucially important. Our choices are vital, and we've got to make them and not just say, 'Oh they're all…

— Dennis Potter

...move from emphasis on personal lifestyle issues toward creating political paradigms and radical models of social change that emphasize collective as well…

— Bell Hooks

For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point -…

— Omar Bongo

The fundamental religious objection to the theory of evolution is not scientific but moral. [Fundamentalists believe that] evolutionary theory must be opposed…

— Elizabeth S. Anderson

Duality is the real root of our suffering and of all our conflicts. All our concepts and beliefs, no matter how profound…

— Namkhai Norbu

I felt when I was elected that the most important task on this island [Ireland] was to extend the hand of friendship…

— Mary Robinson

I always loved horror as a kid. On the one hand, I really love monsters, because in a way I feel like…

— Larry Fessenden

Ten years ago I said, you know, my goal is to be able to get food on the table. What I'm trying…

— Anonymous

In the political jargon of those days, the word "intellectual" was an insult. It indicated someone who did not understand life and…

— Milan Kundera

The most wounding insult to an educated Russian was to be called nekulturny-uncultured-yet the same men who sat in the gilt boxes…

— Tom Clancy

With regard to the idea of whether you have a right to health care, you have to realize what that implies. It’s…

— Rand Paul

Being born, especially being born a person of color, is a political act in itself.

— Andres Serrano

What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If voters care about parking lots, then talk about…

— Newt Gingrich

People and organizations should not be silenced because of their political beliefs, especially by a government agency.

— Ronny Jackson

It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.

— Oscar Niemeyer

The fact that Hitler was a political genius unmasks the nature of politics in general as no other fact can.

— Wilhelm Reich

I keep wondering if everybody on the political left had someone who they were separated at birth from.

— Abigail Disney

What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.

— Mark Twain

My associates and I always allied with Netanyahu in complicated political maneuvers.

— Ayelet Shaked

I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.

— Clement Attlee

Freedom of speech...Freedom of worship...Freedom from want...Freedom from fear.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

America's political system used to be about the pursuit of happiness. Now More and more of us want to stop chasing it…

— Jonah Goldberg

Our opinions agree as to the evil, moral, political, and economical, of slavery.

— James Madison

The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that.

— Richelle Mead

I don't ever recall having a political argument with Bob Grant. I've known him a long time. I've always liked him.

— Mario Cuomo

Liberation tolerates no limits, be they political, cultural, religious, or even natural.

— Michael J. Knowles

It's a law of our natures, especially when the political fit is on us, to applaud where we already approve, and deride…

— Howard Jacobson