Political Quotes

True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion.

Our political machine, composed of thirteen independent sovereignties, have been perpetually operati...

I have not the smarts or patience for political office.

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.

The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and allelse, now concerns itself no mo...

The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.

Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heav...

Power is action the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussi...

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-int...

A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mand...

If our system continues without modification involving environmental and social concern, we will fac...

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as w...

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

The principle that a central bank, charged with controlling inflation, should be independent from th...

I've worked very hard in this book to keep the lines of communication open. I don't want to turn som...

For any ranked society, whether a chiefdom or a state, one thus has to ask, why do the commoners tol...

This communist talk is so confusing

I do think the public want to see politicians acting in a different way. What's brought young people...

We are domesticated animals, revolving in a cage which we have built for ourselves - with its conten...

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our prac...

My mum is bright, ambitious, well read, political and very bolshie: when my dad was conscripted into...

Carol says we speak with one voice. What she doesn't say is that voice belongs to HER. There's only ...

Carol says we speak with one voice. What she doesn't say is that voice belongs to HER. There's only ...

Political courage requires clarity.

Americans deserve an attorney general that will be honest with them, they deserve an attorney genera...

In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable be...

The day that the balance between the two sections of the country - the slaveholding States and the n...

Faith is not a political strategy and should not be a political strategy. If it is being used as a t...

Because I was single, there was a chance I was a homosexual. Because I went to Syracuse, wherever th...

I am worried about our tendency to over invest in things and under invest in people.

The French Revolution will be found to have had great influence on the strength of parties, and on t...

The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness...

It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge.

If the fundamental principles in the Declaration of Independence, as self-evident truths, are real t...

The Declaration of Independence pronounced the irrevocable decree of political separation, between t...

In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function...

It is not good for man to be kept perforce at all times in the presence of his species. A world from...

Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' was the work of a wayward imagination brought to the end of its ...

A man who lives a part, not to others but alone, is exposed to obvious psychological dangers. In its...

I have some bad news. Bjork cannot be here tonight. She was trying on her Oscar dress and Dick Chene...

And this, this, is their genius. Conservatives are not looking to make education more rigorous and i...

If there is ever a fascist takeover in America, it will come not in the form of storm troopers kicki...

Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason.

The more one reads poetry, the less tolerant one becomes of any sort of verbosity, be that in politi...

Without economic development, any potential for political openness and freedom will be questionable.

If the Philippines must remain under the control of Spain, they will necessarily have to be transfor...

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

Poetry can tell us about what's going on in our lives - not only our personal but our social and pol...

I saw that publishing all over the world was deeply constrained by self-censorship, economics and po...

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular new...

That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage ...

The difference between political terror and ordinary crime becomes clear during the change of regime...

Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for th...

If supporters of equality for women want to vote for the best candidate, they must look to a person ...

In my opinion, the battles over birth control and Planned Parenthood are primarily neither political...

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but...

Lesbian humor isn't trying to sell anything, it doesn't have to sell out. Coming out as a lesbian on...

If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowled...

When the Russian delegate this summer indicated the Soviet Union's interest in sending medical equip...

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and the...

Hardcore groups were singing songs about Ronald Reagan. I wasn't interested in this and preferred to...

Pity the nation whose people are sheep,and whose shepherds mislead them.Pity the nation whose leader...

The ultimate test of the value of a political system is whether it helps that society to establish c...

Workers – men and women – of all countries, place yourselves under the banner of the Fourth Internat...

The strangeness of the Barrayaran government system with all its unwritten customs, pressed on Corde...

Lord X was a tyrant, not a revolutionary. He wanted to take over the system, not change it.

Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husban...

My father was a professor of political science and also a young politician fighting for democracy in...

The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their...

And yet we have what purports, or professes, or is claimed, to be a contract—the Constitution—made e...

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, ...

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being he...

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

I miss New York. I like the country and I like the people. However, the U.S. political and legal sys...

There is no distinctly native American criminal class save Congress.

We are faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. Procrastination is still the thief o...

Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask w...

If we ever hope to rid the world of the political AIDS of our time, terrorism, the rule must be clea...

Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyo...

When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignti...

The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, ra...

I say you don't need religion, or political ideology, to understand human nature. Science reveals th...

The problem of Islam as a political force is an essential one for our time and for the years to come...

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no l...

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a...

...because love is continual interrogation. I don't know of a better definition of love.(in that cas...

Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of govern...

Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know ...

To put a trillion dollars in context, if you spend a million dollars every day since Jesus was born,...

I sincerely hope that they (relations between India and Pakistan) will be friendly and cordial. We h...

No settlement with the majority is possible as no Hindu leader speaking with any authority shows any...

You are free; you are free to go to your temples. You are free to go to your mosques or to any other...

Do not forget that the armed forces are the servants of the people. You do not make national policy;...

Inrealized how valuable the art and practice of writing letters are, and how important it is to remi...

In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bu...