Political Quotes · Page 189

The north-south line of 'the mountains,' meaning the Cascade Range, forty miles east of Seattle, is a rigid political frontier.

— Jonathan Raban

At that time [1954], as a result of political events, I was deeply preoccupied by my relations with the Communist Party.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

While there are many moderate Muslims, Islam's political ideology is radical and has global ambitions.

— Geert Wilders

Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.

— Anonymous

The political form of a society wherein the proletariat is victorious in overthrowing the bourgeoisie will be a democratic republic.

— Vladimir Lenin

I just want to work with legislative council members from across the political spectrum to get things done.

— Carrie Lam

Americans tend not to distinguish between political rhetoric and real intentions, which can lead to great misunderstanding.

— Hooman Majd

Culture and politics were inseparable [in the Sixties], which gave a soundtrack to political awareness and activism.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Now that our troops are mired in a dangerous effort to defeat the insurgency and are also trying to help rebuild the…

— Harry Reid

Counter-knowledge covers the propagation of false legends and conspiracy theories often used for political purposes or fundamentalist religious propaganda.

— Antony Beevor

We need to accept the seemingly obvious fact that a toxic environment can make people sick and that no amount of medical…

— Andrew Weil

It isn't the American white man who is a racist, but it's the American political, economic and social atmosphere that automatically nourishes…

— Malcolm X

I was trained as a political scientist and the profession bores me, to be frank. I am truly bored by mainstream work…

— James C. Scott

Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

If a political opponent has different approaches than mine, that doesn't make them a bad person. It means they have different backgrounds,…

— Dana Perino

There have been two lines of progress in this world-political and religious. In the former the Greeks are everything, the modern political…

— Swami Vivekananda

The state has been living on a revenue which was being produced in the private sphere for private purposes and had to…

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

The billionaires and their super PACs increasingly control the American political process. This is not democracy. This is not what brave Americans…

— Bernie Sanders

If a legislator is safe from competition, or if he represents groups with the same economic and political beliefs, he does not…

— Edward Kennedy

Our conviction that the world is meaningless is due in part to the fact (discussed in a later paragraph) that the philosophy…

— Aldous Huxley

There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away. The British people…

— Winston Churchill

The country's 24 hour political pundit perpetual panic conflictinator did not cause our problems but its existence makes solving them that much…

— Jon Stewart

[N]o clear steps have actually been taken to apprehend and prosecute those known to have been in command of the camp or…

— Ben Cardin

I can't really speak to what it was like to call yourself a feminist in the past on a personal level but…

— Julie Zeilinger

People always ask me 'do you think there should be more bands doing political music?' and I say 'absolutely not.'

— Serj Tankian

We are doing politics differently - smart, populist, political movement.

— Maxime Bernier

Trees are right at the heart of all the necessary debates: ecological, social, economic, political, moral, religious.

— Colin Tudge

Infected by political ideology, if you dare question climate models, your career is done.

— Greg Gutfeld

These days, the House Republicans actually give John Boehner a harder time than they give me. Which means orange really is the…

— Barack Obama

My Worst Political Move of the 2015 Year. John Boehner inviting Benjamin Netanyahu to address the joint session of Congress.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

Our new faith-based laws have removed government as a roadblock to people of faith who hear the call.

— George W. Bush

Flint and its lead contaminated water are now the focus of sustained national attention including political attention.

— Rachel Maddow

The more fear confrontational activism can put into the heart of the political class, the better.

— Glenn Greenwald

I think that we are at a point in our country where we're trying to decide what role should religion play in…

— Nikki Haley

Without patriotic political education, a soldier is only a potential criminal.

— Thomas Sankara

I ask everyone with political responsibility to remember two things: human dignity and the common good.

— Pope Francis

The security challenge is related to the progress and advance we make in the political process,

— Hoshyar Zebari

I think that if I would talk on a political subject, if I talk about it, it would divide the audience on…

— Billy Graham

In the time we made 'To the 5 Boroughs,' there was a political seriousness because of what was happening in the world.

— Mike D

Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.

— Lord Chesterfield