Political Quotes · Page 91

The lead singer of Creed says he won’t endorse President Obama. Well that settles it -- Obama will not win the 1998…

— Stephen Colbert

Our political problem now is, "Can we as a nation continue together permanently - forever - half slave and half free?"

— Abraham Lincoln

God has no role to play in politics except to make sure politicians go where they belong. To hell.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I don't believe you should interfere with any classic for reasons of religious or political correctness.

— Terry Hands

I think that the memory of Armenia's genocide opened my eyes at an early age to the existence of political cynicism.

— Serj Tankian

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Slate is not a political magazine but a lot of what it does is politics.

— David Plotz

Leaders of organisations, political parties and large businesses frequently fail to talk in a straight and entirely truthful fashion.

— Gavin Esler

But if the 1 percent and the 0.1 percent are respected and allowed to risk their wealth - and new rebels are…

— George Gilder

With virtually no knowledge of or interest in history, the masses simply take their unprecedented high living standards under capitalism for granted.

— Ralph Raico

It has sustained me in moments of success and in moments of disappointment. Without it, I'd be a different person. And without…

— George W. Bush

The insane have achieved political respectability while the sane act too good for it all. The irrational celebrate while the rational act…

— Maureen Dowd

The Russian leaders are keen judges of human psychology, and as such they are highly conscious that loss of temper and of…

— George F. Kennan

Obviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond - had to try to make sense of was what…

— Paul Muldoon

In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I would describe myself as outspoken. Not political. Outspoken about what I want to say. There are things that need to be…

— Benjamin Clementine

Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all…

— John Stuart Mill

There are two kinds of comprehensive doctrines, religious and secular. Those of religious faith will say I give a veiled argument for…

— John Rawls

The Republicans have picked that as the one thing that they want to hang on to to try to gain some political…

— Noam Chomsky

Kalecki thus precisely predicted the economic and political U-turn that occurred with the advent of neoliberalism. Kalecki also argued that fundamental institutional…

— Jim Stanford

After political crusades for 'affordable housing' ended up ruining the housing market and much of the economy with it, many of the…

— Thomas Sowell

There isn't a specific Trump philosophy. That's why you're never gonna be able to pin Trump down on. He doesn't have a…

— Rush Limbaugh

The U.S. directed the war against South Vietnam. There was a political settlement in 1954. But in the late '50's the United…

— Noam Chomsky

If the dominant political expression that we're seeing right now is of nostalgia and we know that nostalgia won't really work out,…

— Mohsin Hamid

The President's political travel is going to get blamed (and probably rightly) for a share of this downturn.

— Robert Teeter

Political assumptions can remain constant for long periods and then change very quickly.

— Jacob Weisberg

Smith and Carlos aside, I object to using the Olympic awards stand to make a political statement.

— Brent Musburger

I do remain confident in Linda. She'll make a fine labor secretary. From what I've read in the press accounts, she's perfectly…

— George W. Bush

Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.

— T. S. Eliot

Like any extraordinary power, surveillance provides temptations for abuse, such as tracking political opponents and journalists.

— Ari Melber

Political gerrymandering makes the incentive for most members of Congress to play to the extremes of their base rather than to the…

— Barack Obama

True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just…

— Rachel Maddow

For some reason I get advertised when I travel as a political comedian, which I'm not. Sometimes I talk about it and…

— Janeane Garofalo

I appeal to the Youth and those on the ground: start talking to each other across divisions of race and political organizations.

— Nelson Mandela

'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.'

— Benjamin Disraeli

Why does the U.S. care which flag will be hoisted on a small piece of land thousands of miles away?

— Ron Paul

Whoever doesn't want to hear our voice needs to see a political otolaryngologist.

— Carles Puigdemont

Critics have a responsibility to put things in a cultural and sociological or political context. That is important.

— Annette Bening

You can’t solve a spiritual problem with a military or political solution.

— Jonathan Cahn