Political Quotes · Page 31

Parliamentarianism means putting political prostitution in barracks.

— Karl Kraus

Public office is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

— Boies Penrose

If you make 10,000 regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

— Winston Churchill

The world wills itself to be deceived, so let it be deceived.

— Petronius

Americans are sick and tired of political gamesmanship.

— Henry Waxman

I don't want to ever be used as a political pawn.

— Trevor Lawrence

You might want to comment on that, Honorable.

— George W. Bush

I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.

— Agnes Repplier

The unimaginable brutality of this latest manifestation of Political Islam in the Arab world is too much to bear for many Muslim…

— Hisham Melhem

There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.

— Warren Buffett

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

— Aldous Huxley

Sufficiently advanced political correctness is indistinguishable from sarcasm.

— Erik Naggum

The Baltic countries are sovereign nations. They have the right to decide which military and political bloc they want to be a…

— Sergei Ivanov

Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time.

— Carly Fiorina

Persistence in a single view has never been regarded as a merit in political leaders.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Eleanor Roosevelt is a political force of enormous ambitions. I believe she is a menace, unscrupulous as to truth, vain and cynical…

— Westbrook Pegler

Unless the peace that follows recognizes that the whole world is one neighborhood and does justice to the whole human race, the…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Everyone matures. When I was Newt's age, I thought I had the right answer to things. The baby-boomers as political leaders are…

— Pete du Pont

In fact it was always the Communist problem which was responsible for the opposition to [Albert] Camus. It was always and overall…

— Catherine Camus

Obama has figured out the best method to prepare the way for his verbal Houdini acts: Use political noise as the tune-up…

— Tina Brown

Every political creation of new money transfers wealth from workers and savers to those who are spending in the market place newly…

— Percy L. Greaves, Jr

The Universal Declaration... as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations...it not only crystallizes the political thought of…

— Dag Hammarskjold

A week after his State of the Union address, political observers are still trying to figure out what President Obama's game is.…

— Jonah Goldberg

I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator…

— J. G. Ballard

Ronald Reagan's legacy is deeply misunderstood because there are political actors in America who, for several reasons, have privately held agendas that…

— Eugene Jarecki

I'm very pleased this military engagement together with a political road map that we developed, we were able to continue. We want…

— Angela Merkel

The need of black conservatives to gain the respect of their white peers deeply shapes certain elements of their conservatism. In this…

— Cornel West

The problem is that white people see racism as conscious hate, when racism is bigger than that. Racism is a complex system…

— Scott Woods

Some conservatives have expressed outrage that the views of professors are at odds with the views of students, as if ideas were…

— Ellen Willis

We need a growing middle class, not one that has been disappearing for 40 years. We need a vibrant one person-one vote…

— Bernie Sanders

If his presidency is to represent the full power of the idea that black Americans are just like everyone else - fully…

— Juan Williams

Political movements always belong to the young.

— Harvey Fierstein

The killer bees have gone, like rats deserting the Titanic.

— Geraldo Rivera

Global stability - economic as well as political - is at risk.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

On 'The Soup,' we were never a political show.

— Joel McHale

I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons.

— Will Rogers

Austerity is, devastatingly, not a party political issue.

— Jack Monroe

He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.

— Aneurin Bevan

The most political thing you can do is be yourself

— Boy George