Political Quotes · Page 78

The category of sex is the political category that founds society as heterosexual.

— Monique Wittig

Those who elected Hamas in Palestine did so on the basis of its political platform.

— Hassan Nasrallah

Corporations are poisoning our air and water while at the same time lining the pockets of elected officials with political contributions.

— Gloria Reuben

A statesman is any politician it's considered safe to name a school after.

— Bill Vaughan

One of the most overused phrases in political commentary is that someone is running a 'negative' campaign filled with 'attack' ads.

— Mercedes Schlapp

You have to be able to solve problems issue by issue. And you can't let political dogma get in the way.

— Kevin Faulconer

Catch and release fishing may be cruelty masquerading as political correctness

— John McPhee

It would be unthinkable in Canadian public life today for the public inauguration of our supreme political figures to be accompanied by…

— Stockwell Day

We now live in a country with a thousand political prisoners, a country where each week there are new trials, where people…

— Alexei Navalny

A large-scale wind, water and solar energy system can reliably supply the world’s needs, significantly benefiting climate, air quality, water quality, ecology…

— Mark Z. Jacobson

Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our…

— Hank Johnson

Political change and academic change and intellectual change are obviously crucial, but they don't necessarily change society. They can change a particular…

— Eve Ensler

When you look at the consequences of climate change, at rainforest deforestation, at antibiotic resistance, these are not necessarily political issues, but…

— Moby

The Soviet assumption that all other political life-forms and beliefs were inherently and immutably hostile was the simple and central cause of…

— Robert Conquest

If you say to people that they, as a matter of fact, can't protect their conversations, in particular their political conversations, I…

— Whitfield Diffie

As I have been arguing for a long time now, there is a real need not simply for a political economy of…

— Paul Virilio

Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Even the sanction of political…

— Carl Menger

I don't feel like I have a lot to offer in terms of an authoritative voice on a lot of political issue.…

— Max Lucado

What do you call a co-worker these days? Neither teammate nor confederate will do, and partner is too legalistic. The answer brought…

— William Safire

I'm worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel - let…

— Howard Zinn

As the head of the government, it is my responsibility to make the overriding political goals and relationships more clear. Part of…

— Angela Merkel

Let us hopethat by the best cultivation of the physical world, beneath and around us; and the intellectual and moral world within…

— Abraham Lincoln

For me, it is clear that we are currently in a period of structural crisis of capitalism going back to the 1970s,…

— John Bellamy Foster

Equality does not mean that all plants must grow to the same height - a society of tall grass and dwarf trees,…

— Victor Hugo

There were no political ideas. It was an apolitical time. It was the '50s and in the privilege of the suburbs.

— Bill Ayers

George Bush's political, intellectual and other shortcomings cannot be restricted to one sentence.

— Emilio Botin

Capitalism and political systems - like companies - must constantly evolve to stay vital.

— Thomas Friedman

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.

— Jose Saramago

The reality is that when three or four networks are at the table with three or four political parties, someone is going…

— Rick Mercer

The world's problem is not too many people, but lack of political and economic freedom.

— Anonymous

As far as making people feel less depressed, that, in and of itself, is a political act.

— Brett Gelman

Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

I work on a political subject quite often, and the paintings, for me, are not finished until they're printed.

— Erro

The crisis you have to worry about most is the one you don't see coming.

— Mike Mansfield

The true destiny of America is religious, not political: it is spiritual, not physical.

— Alvin R. Dyer

Every time I fill a vacant office, I make ten malcontents and one ingrate.

— Louis XIV

The American political system is so porous, it's so open, it's so frustrating for those who are trying to make policy.

— Michael Mandelbaum

Nevertheless, I have no political agenda whatsoever, even though some might think the contrary.

— Tariq Ramadan

The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same…

— Toni Morrison

Supporting a murderous political agenda with such an argument is tragic!

— Joseph Bayly