Political Quotes · Page 29

“power the mojave desert with miles & miles of solar panels!”

— Joy Leftow

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.

— William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.

— Henry David Thoreau

No group of people who share a political identity march in lockstep.

— Torrey Peters

“Freedom... Freedom does not exist with personal responsibility!”

— Joseph P. Sekula

Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is no perfecter endowment in man than political virtue.

— Plutarch

The great problem with government is that it never goes bankrupt.

— Jerry Brown

What the world, social and political, concrete and mental, really needs is not new things, but the old things made new.

— Ethel M. Dell

I don't wear my political feelings on my sleeve. However, if I'm asked, I will answer honestly.

— Eartha Kitt

High finance trembles in its boots whenever there is some political complication.

— Vanna Bonta

Obama has not accomplished a key mission: sell his own successes and keep his own (political) troops fired up and ready to…

— David Corn

Governors playing political games does not augur well for the democratic and federal nature of the Union. This must be corrected.

— M. K. Stalin

I'm not a really super-political type of person, and that might change as I get older.

— Tash Sultana

As a matter of fact, I didn't make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years.

— Joe Biden

If Ambassador Grenell is unwilling to refrain from political statements, he should be recalled immediately.

— Jeanne Shaheen

Only a cheap politician, greedy for political gain, would try to single out one individual for blame. The fault lies not with…

— Pat Paulsen

Inspiring scenes of people taking the future of their countries into their own hands will ignite greater demands for good governance and…

— William Hague

We would continue our commitments, president and cabinet, to the manner of negotiations as a strategic and political reality, through which we…

— Mahmoud Abbas

The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it…

— Christopher Dawson

...I am opposed to all attempts to license or restrict the arming of individuals... I consider such laws a violation of civil…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Venezuelans have a deep democratic conviction. If the government hotheads ventured out to stir violence they would encounter the armed forces. I…

— Henrique Capriles Radonski

First I laughed my way through Elinor Lipman's book of political tweets. Then I put my ear to the ground and listened…

— Wally Lamb

My point of view on most issues, my point of view on political issues, doesn't check all the boxes for any movement…

— Will Cain

The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them…

— Aldous Huxley

I disagree with the analysis that you've put about what happened in relation to the student demonstrations and protests and the incident…

— Theresa May

What makes globalization even possible in the first place? One answer would be that it requires the regularization of some kind of…

— McKenzie Wark

Unless you are political or intellectual, events like the Depression are seen as personal events. We thought of the Depression as something…

— Florynce Kennedy

I would have to say that in this sort of feminized atmosphere in which we exist today, guys who are masculine and…

— Brit Hume

I have no regrets - in fact, I am pleased to have expelled the US ambassador, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and…

— Evo Morales

Our modern world, though infinitely more complex than that of ancient Greece, is also far more superficial. Where the Greeks offered simple…

— David Gemmell

Too rich to be relevant to the world's poor, [Europe] attracts immigration but cannot encourage imitation. Too passive regarding international security. Too…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

“The dictatorship is like an aria that never becomes an opera.”

— Emilia Pardo Bazán

The American political system is a giant bureaucracy.

— Rush Limbaugh

“It's all rather political, mourning is.”

— Melina Marchetta

I think there is some methodology in my travels.

— George W. Bush

I and you and everyone else has to be a political activist.

— Michael Moore

Canadians don't have a very big political lever, we're nice guys.

— Paul Henderson

[In politics] no good deed goes unpunished

— Clare Boothe Luce

College campuses were once a hotbed of political activity.

— Tom Ford