Political Quotes · Page 65

He's a politician. That's a notch below child molester.

— Woody Allen

All music has political dimensions because it suggests a way of being.

— Brian Eno

“...if George Washington founded the nation, John Marshall defined it.”

— Jean Edward Smith

I don't have political agendas. I have social agendas.

— will.i.am

The problem with politics isn't the money; it's the power.

— Harry Browne

There's a difference between 'political films' and 'films about Iraq.'

— Rod Lurie

Color is not a human or a personal reality it is a political reality.

— James A. Baldwin

I'm very political. I'm not political in public; I'm political at home.

— Melania Trump

When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty.

— Thomas Jefferson

Isn't it amazing that the Germans call their city halls 'rat houses'? That's what we should call our city halls!

— Drew Carey

I have no issues limiting my ability to write a check whether it's for a charity or a political engagement.

— George Santos

The ordinary affairs of a nation offer little difficulty to a person of any experience.

— Thomas Jefferson

But when it comes to democratic political parties, I prefer that monks and nuns not join them - in order to ensure…

— Dalai Lama

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

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

— Naguib Mahfouz

“Aurelia frowned. "Are you saying that you hang around the women at court to gather intel?" "Oh, Your Grace, you are quick…

— Therisa Peimer

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the…

— John Adams

Although Verwoerd thought Africans were lower than animals, his death did not yield us any pleasure. Political assassination is not something I…

— Nelson Mandela

We could have a political movement going if it had been properly organized but the Monarchy's done itself enormous damage possibly beyond…

— Anthony Holden

Leo Strauss's discoveries in the history of political philosophy had the effect of liberating his students from the yoke of contemporary thought.

— William Kristol

When the goal of political action is no longer the defense of liberty, no word other than demagoguery can describe the despicable…

— Ron Paul

[On her political writings:] It is, I confess, very possible that these my Labours may only be destined to line Trunks, or…

— Mary Wortley Montagu

It is an essential feature of the just state that the wealthy be kept away from political power and that the politically…

— Rebecca Goldstein

In authoritarian societies, control over the production, distribution, and circulation is generally in the hands of the government, or what might be…

— Henry Giroux

The main propoganda trick of supporters of the allegedly "progressive" policy of government control is to blame capitalism for all that is…

— Ludwig von Mises

Groupings of people that get together, think things through, come out to plan and so on, like unions or true political organizations,…

— Noam Chomsky

The recent past is full of diverse examples of writers - Mahfouz in Egypt, Pamuk in Turkey, and more interestingly, Pasternak in…

— Pankaj Mishra

Three Days of the Condor is still an interesting film to watch not because it's political. It happens to be political. But…

— Sydney Pollack

Poetry is basically built out of what I think of as being a fairly political act at its core: "I'm not going…

— Ted Genoways

"Masters of War" [of Bob Dylan] wasn't peacenik, anti-war stuff. With its minor key and uncompromising final lines ("And I hope that…

— Jay Michaelson

Depending upon their version of Eurocentric Racialism, then 9 times out of 10 I feel very comfortable with it. This is how…

— Douglas Pearce

I've been through so many different political races.

— Mary Fallin

Yes, and you should question your government.

— Jessica Lange

Sanctions and boycotts would be tied to serious political dialogue.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Social and political life is a Society for the Diffusion of Mendacity .

— Samuel Laman Blanchard

There's nothing automatic about political change, about liberation.

— Gloria Steinem

You can't keep changing the rules based upon who holds political power.

— Matthew Dowd

Man is naturally a political animal.

— Aristotle

I thought I would go into philosophy and political science.

— Lee Isaac Chung