Political Quotes · Page 86

“Cancer and lightning go where they want. So does political corruption.”

— James Lee Burke

Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions.

— Tom G. Palmer

I'm not going to become an MP and I'm not going to be London Mayor. I have no political ambitions.

— Karren Brady

Time Rolls On' is my most political piece so far. It's not on my album because people didn't support it.

— Sean Paul

The great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.

— William Jennings Bryan

The Hippocratic Oath says do no harm. It's the Hypocritical Oath that says do no harm to one's political future.

— Mark McKinnon

Sadly the job security of lawyers has been ruined, so they are less willing to defend political defendants.

— Shirin Ebadi

We need to change the power structure in America, we need to end the political oligarchy.

— Bernie Sanders

I do not agree with this notion that somehow if I go to try to attract votes and to lead people toward…

— George W. Bush

The business of a Political Economist is neither to recommend nor to dissuade, but to state general principles, which it is fatal…

— Nassau William Senior

[American] liberalism today sees no realm of human life that is beyond political significance, from what you eat to what you smoke…

— Jonah Goldberg

I am once more seated under my own vine and fig tree ... and hope to spend the remainder of my days…

— George Washington

We have something happening that actually makes the Republican Party probably the biggest political story anywhere in the world. Everybody's writing about…

— Donald Trump

By the very nature of government schooling, the matter of what goes into school textbooks must necessarily be a political matter, to…

— Jacob G. Hornberger

New ties between Russia and Japan would mark not only a breakthrough in their relations but also a significant shift in Northeast…

— Fiona Hill

I have invested the best part of my adult political life in helping to try to build up this movement and I…

— Nigel Farage

The truth, I am convinced, is that there is no longer a poetical audience among the higher class of minds, that moral,…

— Thomas Love Peacock

If by a "Liberal," they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone…

— John F. Kennedy

[Ben Carson] critics say that your inexperience shows. You've suggested that the Baltic States are not a part of NATO, you were…

— Megyn Kelly

The party of Lincoln and Liberty was transmogrified into the party of hairy-backed swamp developers and corporate shills, faith-based economists, fundamentalist bullies…

— Garrison Keillor

Change of ministers amounts to nothing. One goes out, another comes in, and still the same measures, vices, and extravagances are pursued.…

— Thomas Paine

In Washington, as we learned from the White House transcripts, a president may speak of kicking butts, call a problem a can…

— Edwin Newman

The habit of a midwinter festivity had come by the dawn of history (and probably very long before) to seem a natural…

— Ronald Hutton

I don't think that that's a desirable option for us. Besides, it wouldn't work, because there are too many other countries that…

— Henry A. Kissinger

I was raised to be a very strong and independent woman without anybody ever saying the word feminist or having any political…

— Kellyanne Conway

Politics are not unlike war. Sometimes it is necessary to shoot from the hip.

— Jesse H. Jones

There is nothing that politicians like better than handing out benefits to be paid for by someone else.

— Thomas Sowell

Margaret Thatcher was the first political leader in any major country to warn of the dangers of climate change

— Ed Miliband

The most depressing thing is the political slogan: there is no alternative. But there is.

— Ken Loach

My political sentiments inclined toward the left and emphasized the socialist aspects every bit as much as nationalist ones.

— Adolf Eichmann

The press is dishonest, but the political press is especially dishonest.

— Donald Trump

The only thing I know about Slovakia is what I learned first-hand from your foreign minister, who came to Texas.

— George W. Bush

I think that one of the questions that I asked of myself in later years was to this point of the political…

— Kehinde Wiley

We cannot be divided either by the languages we speak, by the faiths we profess or by the political views we choose.

— Viktor Yushchenko

If the present tries to sit in judgment of the past, it will lose the future.

— Winston Churchill

Rosie Perez is the coolest. She's kind of everything you want her to be. She's involved in so many cool things, political…

— Alia Shawkat

Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.

— Garet Garrett

[Tyler Perry] has the luxury of not doing the political stuff, which is really where I want to be as a company.

— Glenn Beck

It's not so much about the cause, it's about feeling superior to political opponents.

— Glenn Reynolds

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

— Mark Twain