Political Quotes · Page 71

In the modern world, we Americans are the old inhabitants. We first had political freedom, high industrial production, an economy of abundance.

— Paul Goodman

The difference between them and us is that we want to check government spending and they want to spend government checks.

— Ronald Reagan

The two great cultural and political currents of Italy have always only been concerned with the masses.

— Emma Bonino

The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.

— Mark Twain

Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?

— Steven Pinker

If I was a political mercenary, I would be using my talents in another line of work.

— David Brock

In Europe public men do resign. But here it's a lost art. You have to impeach 'em.

— Will Rogers

One of the things that I've been doing over the past few years is reevaluating my own powers of political analysis.

— Tony Blair

And let me say this as a politician I can promise you this, political leaders will never take risks if the people…

— Barack Obama

We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the violence we experience…

— Patricia Ireland

Keeping our children safe is not only an area where both political parties can find common ground, but as lawmakers, it is…

— Mark Meadows

What is it we are hating? It goes beyond politics. I suppose that my fascination with [Margaret Thatcher] is not just with…

— Hilary Mantel

A State divided into a small number of rich and a large number of poor will always develop a government manipulated by…

— Harold Laski

Well, if you can't then write in the press or put on television the importance of parents changing what they're doing, then…

— Jerome Kagan

So, in some ways, the political songs tend to be a bit more like reportage, whereas the love songs tend to be…

— Billy Bragg

A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they…

— Bernard Baruch

While political and cultural factors are important as explanations for differences in national technology policy and industrial practices, emergent trends in science,…

— Lewis M. Branscomb

Not long ago, if you wanted to seize political power in a country you had merely to control the army and the…

— Umberto Eco

“Political organizations are formed to keep the powerful in power. Their first rule is “don’t rock the boat.” If someone makes trouble…

— Shirley Chisholm

It is often lamented by the churchmen that Washington and Lincoln possessed little religion except that found in the word 'God.' All…

— David Swing

With calm, knowledgeable precision, Daniel Ziblatt wades into the adjacent swamps of federalism and nineteenth-century European history, emerging with hands full of…

— Charles Tilly

We are so considerate of the minute constitutional rights and even of the political feelings and influence of people whom we have…

— Westbrook Pegler

Organizational Development: The New Christian Right of the 1980s was dominated by paper organizations that were essentially the mailing lists of a…

— Kenneth D. Wald

Their constant yelping about a free press means, with a few honorable exceptions, freedom to peddle scandal, crime, sex, sensationalism, hate, innuendo…

— Raymond Chandler

Mexican leadership has been doing serious damage to the United States by out-negotiating our representatives and political leaders.

— Donald Trump

“Individuals watching Yiannopoulos on YouTube do not have the same political potential as when they are physically grouped.”

— Mark Bray

“... while madness in individuals is relatively rare, it is virtually a prerequisite for a certain sort of political leader.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

I resent the idea that Israel is part of the political agenda in United States' campaigns, really.

— Tzipi Livni

I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.

— Aneurin Bevan

The National Debt is a very Good Thing and it would be dangerous to pay it off for fear of Political Economy.

— W. C. Sellar

No amount of advice change his attitude. He does not listed to good advice. Rather he gets angry.

— Chanakya

Whenever "A" attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon "B," "A" is most likely a scoundrel.

— H. L. Mencken

I think we need someone in a responsible political position to have the courage to say, 'Let's terminate human spaceflight.'

— James Van Allen

I've written quite a variety of songs, everything from kids songs to political satire, and my dad covered a fairly large range,…

— Arlo Guthrie

Both the Left and the Right need to connect as people rather than as political entities.

— Charlie Sykes

Crime and the effect on the community, and the need for law enforcement - those are not abstract concepts or political slogans…

— Ketanji Brown Jackson

The masculine in each of us struggles for greater freedom and tries to achieve it through financial, creative, or political challenges.

— David Deida

Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to…

— Jack London

Certainly there are various trans-Islamic political movements, which try to appeal to Muslims in all societies.

— Samuel P. Huntington

Maybe I'll create a guidebook for future political spouses: the dos and don'ts in D.C.

— Louise Linton