Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it. Votes: 4
Mark TwainPolitical correctness is euphemism for "fear to speak truth to authority Votes: 3
Bangambiki HabyarimanaPolitical freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men. Votes: 3
Milton FriedmanI have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally. Votes: 2
Bill MaherIf you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman. Votes: 2
Margaret ThatcherSuppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself. Votes: 2
Mark TwainThe danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern. Votes: 2
Lord ActonMy fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. Votes: 2
John F. KennedyGratitude is not a normal feature of political life. Votes: 0
David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of KilmuirDemocrats are unified under the premise of total political annihilation. Votes: 0
Ruqaiyyah Waris MaqsoodDetroit's political leadership is a parasite that has outgrown its host. Votes: 0
Kevin D. WilliamsonVeep is the best and most realistic political TV show out there. Votes: 0
Christopher Michael CillizzaEvery political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil. Votes: 0
Mary WollstonecraftSocial and political life is a Society for the Diffusion of Mendacity . Votes: 0
Samuel Laman BlanchardA political place with no power, only influence, is not to my taste. Votes: 0
Ellen Swallow RichardsPrivate passions grow tired and wear themselves out; political passions, never.
Alphonse de LamartineIt is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
R. Buckminster FullerA great many political speeches are literary parricides; they kill their fathers.
George D. PrenticeThe use of EU summits to frame political victories or defeats is an annoying habit.
Jean-Claude JunckerPolitical success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.
Laurence J. PeterHonestly, I'm always aware of the political implications of the movies that I make.
Maggie GyllenhaalA political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible
Francis Parker YockeyWhat's the use, there never was a woman living who could understand political ideas.
John Dos PassosAs far as ideology or political beliefs are concerned, countries are very different.
Samuel P. HuntingtonIt's not so much about the cause, it's about feeling superior to political opponents.
Glenn ReynoldsI dont usually make political comments, because I am a businessman, not a politician.
John GokongweiOnly a country that feels invulnerable can afford political turmoil as entertainment.
Lionel ShriverPersistence in a single view has never been regarded as a merit in political leaders.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe energy I was sensing in audiences was political energy, as much as anything else.
Michael PollanPolitical Economy or Economics is a study of mankind in the ordinary business of life.
Alfred MarshallRon Teigen Sr. and Donald Trump Sr. both have matching political qualifications: zero.
Chrissy TeigenNever lose your temper with the Press or the public is a major rule of political life.
Christabel PankhurstThere is an infinity of political errors which, being once adopted, become principles.
Guillaume Thomas Francois RaynalScientific understanding is our joy. Economic and political understanding is our duty.
Henry A. WallaceDon't make a novel to establish a principle of political economy. You will spoil both.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe true destiny of America is religious, not political: it is spiritual, not physical.
Alvin R. DyerIt is impossible, maybe undesirable, to take partisanship out of the political process.
David SouterA political problem thought of in military terms eventually becomes a military problem.
George C. MarshallI feel like my political beliefs are rooted in the conservatism that I was raised with.
Hillary ClintonA feat - of access and of passionate and appropriately unsettling political commentary.
Lisa SchwarzbaumI care not who controls a nation's political affairs, so long as I control her currency
Mayer Amschel RothschildI am not a political figure. The fact is I am a humanitarian figure and always will be.
Princess DianaFor me I made it clear that I wanted to meet with both sides of the political spectrum.
Tariq RamadanWe seem to have trouble with [critical thinking]. And our political system doesn't help.
Barack ObamaPeace depends ultimately not on political arrangements but on the conscience of mankind.
Henry A. KissingerThe market economy as such does not respect political frontiers. Its field is the world.
Ludwig von MisesTo get people emotionally involved in something intellectual and political is important.
Maggie GyllenhaalIf you do not force political freedom, economic freedom will be stymied sooner or later.
Milton FriedmanThere are times when every act, no matter how private and unconscious, becomes political
Renata AdlerI'm interested in telling the character's story, not my beliefs, political or otherwise.
Sarah PaulsonBeing a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
Cornel WestThe young man who joins a political party is a traitor to his generation and to his race.
Corneliu Zelea CodreanuActing alone, minorities can never achieve the majorities necessary for political change.
Hillary ClintonLiberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord ActonNothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
Mark B. CohenMorals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals.
Mark TwainPolitical stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public
Robert HughesThere can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains.
Theodore RooseveltPolitical parties in Italy are so stupid and expensive that they deserve to be abolished.
William C. BrownIt's always interesting to me to tell stories that come from difficult political climates.
Jim SturgessOrganized religion is making Christianity political rather than making politics Christian.
Laurens van der PostMy own feeling is that a corporation has no right to have a political or social influence.
Noam ChomskyThere aren't many political humorists. Dave Barry is excellent, but he doesn't do it much.
P. J. O'RourkeDonald Trump pulled off an amazing political feat. He deserves tremendous credit for that.
Paul RyanThe social revolution is seriously compromised if it comes through a political revolution.
Pierre-Joseph ProudhonIn highly charged political matters, one person's ambiguity may be another person's truth.
Richard MottramI don't think it's the court's perceived role to do some explaining of a political nature.
Sandra Day O'ConnorConservatism as an "ism" is always going to be somewhat in tension with a political party.
William KristolI care nothing for all the political parties in the world except as they stand for justice.
Anna Howard ShawThe problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy.
Bashar al-AssadWe will not allow to become a political issue in this country the question of Asianisation.
Bob HawkeThe American political system is not good at trading sacrifice now to prevent crises later.
Ezra KleinThe political bug first bit me was Malcolm Fraser's resignation from the Gorton Government.
George BrandisIndeed, the creators of the euro envisioned it as an instrument to promote political union.
Gerhard SchroderThe political is replacing the metaphysical as the characteristic mode of grasping reality.
Harvey CoxLiberty is a political firewall that limits the damage government can do to the individual.
James BovardThe union of Church and State is not to make the Church political, but the State religious.
John Scott, 1st Earl of EldonI have made on occasion posters and things like that for political reasons but not my work.
Michelle StuartI also think that [political turmoil] gives artists something, a way of kind of processing.
Morgan ParkerThe question of receiving the immigrant is an ethical issue that becomes a political issue.
Ruben MartinezWhat is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.
Abdul Kalam. . . Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.
AristotleYou're not a human till you're in my phone book. There. My hat is now in the political ring.
Bill HicksI've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.
Bob DylanI am a woman that defends animals, right, left, and in the centre. Animals aren't political.
Brigitte BardotI just didn't understand the American political system, and I felt really stupid about that.
Drew BarrymoreThe opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.
George OrwellI'm very proud that I was a Goldwater Girl. And then my political beliefs changed over time.
Hillary ClintonThere's a lot of political things happening out there that I'd really have to get away from.
Jimi HendrixIf you look at the history of the FBI, it has become effectively America's political police.
Julian AssangeNot only does political coverage often lose the signal"it frequently accentuates the noise.
Nate SilverOne can be inclined to just say, "F this political correctness! I don't have time for that!"
Quentin TarantinoWhat a heap of ash most political careers amount to, when one really stops to consider them!
Robert HarrisThe fact is, most journalists I know are not particularly political. They move around a lot.
Ron SuskindEvery Iranian artist, in one form or another, is political. Politics have defined our lives.
Shirin NeshatPolitical people don't solve stuff - not really. Political people are like guys in pop music.
Bruce SterlingThe political system loves the extremes, it doesnt so much show a lot love for the moderates.
Claire McCaskillOnly in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context.
Isabel AllendeI'm very open about my politics. I don't believe in any political party at all, none of them.
John LydonBuying Gold Is Just Buying A Put Against The Idiocy Of The Political Cycle. It's That Simple!
Kyle BassAmong the most urgent political priorities of our age is the separation of economy and state.
Llewellyn RockwellIt [Socialism] was a kind of political hockey played by big, gaunt, dyspeptic girls in pants.
Mary McCarthyVery early on I was interested in doing political art, but it was not feminist political art.
Michelle StuartDiscipline our youth in early life in sound maxims of moral, political, and religious duties.
Noah WebsterI do believe that America's deepest political sickness is that it is a self-righteous nation.
Norman MailerWhen a political organization loses contact with its origin, it declines and risks implosion.
Roberto EspositoThe greater concerns in China and Taiwan are on the political side, not on the economic side.
William C. KirbyOld men declare war because they have failed to solve complex political and economic problems.
Art HoppeThe test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.
Benjamin DisraeliNATO member states vary dramatically in their capability and in their political steadfastness.
Donald RumsfeldUnemployment is bigger than a political party. It is a national danger and a national scandal.
Ellen WilkinsonA Socialist United States of Europe seems to me the only worth-while political objective today
George OrwellThere is no safe political refuge for those afraid to take responsibility for their own lives.
James BovardPolitical power means the capacity to regulate national life through national representatives.
Mahatma GandhiI would not like to be a political leader in Russia. They never know when they're being taped.
Richard M. NixonYou have to be a political leader, willing to lose an election if you want to do what's right.
Scott PelleyPeople getting their fundamental interests wrong is what American political life is all about.
Thomas FrankPeople are not hungry because we dont produce enough. People are hungry for political reasons.
Tom ColicchioI have no time for political hacks who say things they don't believe because they get paid to,
Tucker CarlsonI dont think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.
Vicky HartzlerPolitical matters are developing so fast that we must not let a single thing slip without use.
Victoria WoodhullPolitical convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress.
Wendell PhillipsI adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.
Oscar WildeI believe that Gandhiâs views were the most enlightened of all the political men of our time.
Albert EinsteinThe future of any leader or political systems is to be determined by the people of the country.
Ban Ki-moonI don't wear my political feelings on my sleeve. However, if I'm asked, I will answer honestly.
Eartha KittI started my political life in the Resistance. It was there that I had my first responsibility.
Francois MitterrandWhether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit he was a first-rate political economist.
George Bernard ShawPutting Americans at risk for a political reason I think is wrong and I think it's unfortunate.
George PatakiThe security challenge is related to the progress and advance we make in the political process,
Hoshyar ZebariWell, killing me makes no sense because Georgia already has a Western-educated political class.
Mikhail SaakashviliThe combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.
Milton FriedmanI am a great believer in planning- economic, social, political, military, total world planning.
Nelson RockefellerEver since I've had any political awareness, I've felt either alone or part of a tiny minority.
Noam ChomskyWe have to give ourselves a constitution which marks the birth of Europe as a political entity.
Romano ProdiNevertheless, I have no political agenda whatsoever, even though some might think the contrary.
Tariq RamadanThe emotional security and political stability in this country entitle us to be a nuclear power.
Anthony MasonThe shuffle only demonstrated people's fatuous belief in a political cure for a human condition.
Brian AldissI'm just not going to spend a lot of political capital solving some other guy's problem in 2010.
David StockmanIgnorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.
E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of HalifaxIt's this mingling of the economic and political elite which is really destroying our democracy.
Jill SteinThere is nothing so deep and nothing so shallow which political enmity will not turn to account.
John Quincy AdamsThe smartest people in Washington are the political reporters. They write about their inferiors.
Joseph HellerAt a time when political correctness is valued over honesty I would also like to say, 'Right on!
Madonna CicconeI also spend a lot of time on political blogs, and music blogs getting things for my radio show.
Marc EdwardsPolitical leaders need to formulate long-term EU goals that show: Yes, we want to stay together.
Martin SchulzThe soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body
Michel FoucaultI can see that in certain political situations you have to use force to overthrow police states.
Pierre TrudeauEarlier in my political career, I had the opportunity to read the speech, and I almost threw up.
Rick SantorumA party is a political tool. If it's no longer useful, it should be crumpled up and thrown away.
Shintaro IshiharaThe only organized political party with a Christian vision of morality is the Libertarian Party.
Walter E. WilliamsMy political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
Albert EinsteinUndoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events.
Bertrand RussellI've never been a member of a political party, but people will superimpose on you what they want.
Brian LambIt takes money to run political campaigns. This is a cancer growing on the soul of our democracy.
Elizabeth WarrenHezbollah is not a state. They're a, you know, supposed political party that happens to be armed.
George W. BushHas the luxury of not doing the political stuff, which is really where I want to be as a company.
Glenn BeckThe more fear confrontational activism can put into the heart of the political class, the better.
Glenn GreenwaldReligious faith is an important aspect of American culture and a fact of American political life.
John RawlsMass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane.
Mahatma GandhiHaitians weren't screwed-up, but everything political, intellectual, and material around them is.
P. J. O'RourkeI don't subscribe to relativism, whether it's in political philosophy, foreign policy or in life.
Paul RyanSubversive, ethical, ecological, political, humorous ... this is how I see my duty as a designer.
Philippe StarckMy work is drawn to the political but avoids an agenda. There is no inherent critique or support.
Taryn SimonThe political mirage of something for nothing, from leaders who 'care,' has ruined many a nation.
Thomas SowellIn the view of the fact that nature is dying, political developments are of secondary importance.
Wolfgang HildesheimerFrance is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.
Alphonse de LamartineI was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all.
Billy BraggIt may be useful to remember that a peacetime political machine is built essentially on patronage.
David GalulaIn the Trump language, words change their meaning day by day depending on his own political needs.
E. J. DionneWith all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.
Eldridge CleaverI'm not a political person, and their ambitions are not mine. They want power. I don't want power.
Elie WieselGeorge Bush's political, intellectual and other shortcomings cannot be restricted to one sentence.
Emilio BotinPersonal religious convictions have no place in political campaigns or in dictating public policy.
Geraldine FerraroA President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.
Harry S. TrumanIn my case I've never not been political, though religion tended to overshadow it in my acid days.
John LennonThe women's movement is filled with tyrants, just as men's political movements are equally filled.
Norman MailerThe political left has been weak on protecting society from criminals for more than two centuries.
Thomas SowellAs a poet, there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language from corruption.
W. H. AudenAll political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war.
William S. BurroughsThe current political tension is very serious. We have not yet ruled out a boycott of the election.
Abhisit VejjajivaThe [political] left are people with an imagination and the right are those without an imagination.
Amos OzFew things reveal more about political leaders and their systems than the manner of their downfall,
Antony BeevorI think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity
Elfriede JelinekI was never informed in advance about the start of the war or about foreign political developments.
Fritz SauckelI want my pictures to cut through political abstractions... and make a connection on a human level.
James NachtweyAfrican slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing.
Jefferson DavisWhere the states are dead set on suppressing political opposition, it's very hard to overcome that.
Jill SteinPolitical success is a good deal pleasanter than political failure, but it too brings its problems.
Margaret ThatcherPolitical utopias are a form of nostalgia for an imagined past projected onto the future as a wish.
Michael IgnatieffThe political horizon looks dark and lowering; but the people, under Providence, will set all right.
Abraham LincolnWhat a terrible world it would be if we only did films that were poster boards for political causes.
Alex GibneyI know the media likes to personalize political debates, and I know the government will demonize me.
Edward SnowdenAngela Merkel and the CDU are not our political adversaries. The CDU and the CSU are sister parties.
Horst SeehoferI think that if everybody changed and tried to make their music political, it'd be kind of a bummer.
Jack JohnsonAs soon as you bring up money, I notice, conversation gets sociological, then political, then moral.
Jane SmileyIt was all to do with the change of producer as well as political reasons I don't really comprehend.
Louise JamesonWe are talking about Christianizing America. We are talking about the Gospel in a political context.
Paul WeyrichThe worst side of people is political part of the process, the side that can be very mean and nasty.
Rob ZerbanFalse rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction.
Vladimir LeninI came into American politics and into this political system proud of politics and the way we make decisions. Votes: 2 Byron Dorgan
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself. Votes: 4 Mark Twain
I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language. Votes: 4 Taki Theodoracopulos
The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don't ask for their love; only for their fear. Votes: 3 Heinrich Himmler
Political activists of all stripes are usually a wacky bunch, and never more so than in a system like Britain's, where power is effected via the quiescence of the electorate as much as its convictions. Votes: 1 Will Self
This weekend the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC, featured several speakers including Sarah Palin and Phil Robertson from 'Duck Dynasty.' It was a good weekend for conservatives - and a great weekend for wild animals. Votes: 5 Jimmy Fallon
Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views. Votes: 3 Mikhail Khodorkovsky
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser. Votes: 2 Albert Einstein
ALEC is one great organization, I think, for growing future political leaders. Votes: 1 Don Nickles
To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race. Votes: 2 Calvin Coolidge
The economy in Ireland has been rampaging ahead for the last 15 years. Barring an international, political or natural catastrophe, things can only get better for the Irish. Votes: 1 Eddie Murphy
Hatred is not contained in political thinking. Any hatred worked up against the public enemy is non-political, and always shows some weakness in the internal political situation. Votes: 4 Francis Parker Yockey
There was in Italy a hidden demand for a boring government which would try to tell the truth in non-political jargon. Votes: 3 Mario Monti
I want a minister to be in charge of a line department so they have clear political accountability. Votes: 4 Campbell Newman
This weekend the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC, featured several speakers including Sarah Palin and Phil Robertson from 'Duck Dynasty.' It was a good weekend for conservatives - and a great weekend for wild animals. Votes: 3 Jimmy Fallon
Logic, sometimes has very little to do with political action. Votes: 4 Alexander Mackenzie
When these political action committees give money, they expect something in return other than good government. Votes: 3 Bob Dole
Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia. Votes: 2 Paul Wellstone
College campuses were once a hotbed of political activity. Votes: 1 Tom Ford
The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the president, it should be helping us to produce smarter students. Votes: 3 Dick Gephardt
A building that has great environmental responsibility is a political animal in a way because it becomes promotional of a cause. I think that kind of advocacy through architecture is really good. Votes: 2 Antoine Predock
I love being able to be political without any political affiliation. Votes: 4 Lady Gaga
Vietnam was a lie but at least there was a political agenda. It was the domino theory. Iraq is about nothing but George Bush's ego laced with imperialist ambitions. And it was helped by your government. Votes: 1 Donald Sutherland
It's very easy, if you come from a place like Pakistan, to imagine that there's a narrative of American aggression towards the place that you come from. But that, in itself, is just a political view. Votes: 1 Mohsin Hamid
I really don't have tremendous political ambition. I have policy ambition. Votes: 5 Paul Ryan
Whether a woman's running for office or she's supporting her husband who's running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or for the colour of her coat, there's just a lot of history that you bear if you are a woman who puts herself out in the political arena. Votes: 1 Hillary Clinton
Red lines are kind of political arguments that are used to try to put people in a corner. Votes: 6 Leon Panetta
I can't be a spokesman for anything other than my own concerns. I have to be free to wrestle with my own preoccupations, and if I'm bringing any political awareness to that process, that mitigates my freedom. Votes: 5 Ayad Akhtar
I have been studying women's political behavior since the early 1970s and first identified the gender gap in 1980 with the help of legendary pollster Louis Harris. Votes: 4 Eleanor Smeal
Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human. Votes: 3 Clancy Brown
I don't know of anybody's political bias at CBS News. We try very hard to get any opinion that we have out of our stories, and most of our stories are balanced. Votes: 4 Lesley Stahl
Ineos is a friendly organisation. Very few people leave. It's collegiate. There's not much politics, and we like decent people. We don't like arrogance or bullies. Votes: 2 Jim Ratcliffe
I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. Votes: 3 Adlai E. Stevenson
Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting. Votes: 6 Rich Lowry
Women tend to give political candidates only about 10 percent of what males give, and males give women candidates only 10 percent of what they give to males. Votes: 6 Maureen Reagan
Mandates are rarely won on election night. They are earned after Inauguration Day by leaders who spend their political capital wisely, taking advantage of events without overreaching. Votes: 1 Ron Fournier
I have led an unusual life. I have buried a father killed at age 50 and two brothers killed in the prime of their lives. I raised my children as a single mother when my husband was arrested and held for eight years without a conviction - a hostage to my political career. Votes: 1 Benazir Bhutto
Religion and political cartoons, as you may have heard, make a difficult couple, ever since that day of 2005, when a bunch of cartoonists in Denmark drew cartoons that had repercussions all over the world - demonstrations, fatwa, they provoked violence. People died in the violence. Votes: 5 Patrick Chappatte
I will continue to help the political causes I believe in in any way I can. Votes: 3 Alastair Campbell
We may have to have a geo-political regrouping or major geo-political changes. Votes: 6 John Keegan
Believe me, the intellectual revolution is going on, and that has to come first before you see the political changes. That's where I'm very optimistic. Votes: 1 Ron Paul
Well, killing me makes no sense because Georgia already has a Western-educated political class. Votes: 2 Mikheil Saakashvili
There's only one way we're going to change our political climate and ensure we establish some respect in our discourse. And that is to show there is a real price to pay for being a disrespectful partisan idiot. Votes: 1 Mark McKinnon
The moment you have massive social and political commentary trying to explain a phenomenon, then you know we are no longer dealing with a strictly psychiatric question. Votes: 3 Norman Finkelstein
Corporate communications will become a high-tech art, just as political communication is for Obama. Votes: 3 Tina Brown
The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. Votes: 1 Aristotle
Partisan rancour and party politics and ideology have got in the way of compromise - and compromise is the only thing that has ever made politics successful. Votes: 4 Kevin Spacey
In times of political confusion, and under an arbitrary government, many will prefer to keep their capital inactive, concealed, and unproductive, either of profit or gratification, rather than run the risk of its display. This latter evil is never felt under a good government. Votes: 4 Jean-Baptiste Say
It's long past time we started focusing on the solutions that actually keep women healthy, instead of using basic aspects of women's health as a tool of cultural, moral, and political control. Votes: 3 Martha Plimpton
Political Correctness doesn't change us, it shuts us up. Votes: 5 Glenn Beck
It's interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant. Votes: 6 Martin Scorsese
You need the commitment of people that aren't worried about that next election, who are going to do the right thing and worry about the next generation. It's called political courage. And I can tell you, with me, you don't have to ask whether I have political courage. Votes: 5 Jeff Fitzgerald
Politics is in a crisis because it's separated from our deep humanity. Votes: 4 Marianne Williamson
But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating. Votes: 6 Robert McChesney
When you don't have accountability, there's no limit to the things that people will say. One of the restraints on the vitriol and the filth that so often is part of the American political debate is that candidates have to stand by their ads. Votes: 1 Sheldon Whitehouse
Political debate with liberals is basically impossible in America today because liberals are calling names while conservatives are trying to make arguments. Votes: 6 Ann Coulter
But particularly when the media profess to strive toward objectivity, gatekeepers play a crucial role in helping people navigate the news to make educated political decisions. Votes: 1 Eric Alterman
We don't know what may yet happen to us, what military and political defeats we may yet have to face. Votes: 4 Moshe Sharett
We will not agree on every issue. But let us respect those differences and respect one another. Let us recognize that we do not serve an ideology or a political party; we serve the people. Votes: 7 John Lynch
Some soldier will say, 'You know, sir, you and I have some political disagreements, but I'm glad you came all the way out here.' And you know, you say, 'Well, maybe one day you'll see the light but I'm glad to be out here with you.' Votes: 3 Henry Rollins
On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech. Votes: 4 Ed Gillespie
True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion. Votes: 3 Henry Cabot Lodge
We propose in the following Treatise to give an outline of the Science which treats of the Nature, the Production, and the Distribution of Wealth. To that Science we give the name of Political Economy. Votes: 3 Nassau William Senior
Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education. Votes: 6 Henry Adams
South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections. Votes: 6 Catherine Helen Spence
Political elections are not life and death. Votes: 2 Rita Mae Brown
With regards to political enemies Plato had a kill-and-banish principle. ... In interpreting it , modern-day Platonists are clearly disturbed by it, even as they make elaborate attempts to defend Plato. Votes: 4 Karl Popper
One of the great dangers in political engagement is misplaced hope. Votes: 3 Shane Claiborne
The political environment we create matters because a disturbed person cannot always tell the difference between explosive rhetoric and explosive actions. Votes: 6 Madeleine M. Kunin
As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones. Votes: 4 Steven Pinker
Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique. Votes: 4 James MacGregor Burns
Extremism in defense of liberty is not a vice, but I denounce political extremism, of the left or the right, based on duplicity, falsehood, fear, violence and threats when they endanger liberty. Votes: 3 George W. Romney
Hezbollah and the government are only two of 18 political factions in Lebanon, most of them armed. There are militant Christian groups, Palestinian radicals, al-Qaida, Druze militias and even armed bands of Marxists still operating in Lebanon. Votes: 4 Richard Engel
I think one of the biggest political failures, and the biggest social failures, over the past few years has been the failure of empathy; not being able to look at the other person down the street. Votes: 7 Colum McCann
The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups in Germany. Votes: 4 Otto Schily
Far from trying to rig the system, I have spent decades opposing cronyism and all political favors, including mandates, subsidies and protective tariffs - even when we benefit from them. Votes: 3 Charles Koch
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights. Votes: 5 Herbert Croly
Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying. Votes: 5 Mikhail Bakunin
The political spin in Washington is revolting, just revolting. It's a callous political game. Votes: 4 Rob Bishop
All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake. Votes: 3 Indira Gandhi
Riots born out of political issues aren't the same as those born out of personal greed. Votes: 2 Ross Kemp
These three movements were born spontaneously and independently of the initiative of a few French patriots who had a place in the old political groups and parties. Votes: 6 Jean Moulin
On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech. Votes: 6 Ed Gillespie
Hatred is not contained in political thinking. Any hatred worked up against the public enemy is non-political, and always shows some weakness in the internal political situation. Votes: 3 Francis Parker Yockey
Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. Votes: 1 Dwight D. Eisenhower
It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement. Votes: 5 Anthony Trollope
The comics that are just conversing with you up there and drawing on their own life, yeah, I guess so. I guess some do political humor, some do topical humor, but the ones that I like, the ones that are appealing to me, were guys who were just talking to you about their life. Votes: 3 Ray Romano
Just pick a political story at random and read the comments. There is no logic or reason on either side - only hypocrisy and hate. Votes: 3 Michael Arrington
True equality means holding everyone accountable in the same way, regardless of race, gender, faith, ethnicity - or political ideology. Votes: 3 Monica Crowley
I am greatly misunderstood by politically correct idiots. Votes: 2 Brigitte Bardot
There are many causes why a people politically ignorant cannot be roused to action. Perfect political ignorance must be accompanied by indifference to the general interests of society, and thus one of the most powerful motives which can act on the human mind is totally destroyed. Votes: 4 Benjamin Robbins Curtis
Africans require, want, the franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independence. Votes: 1 Nelson Mandela
In any country, in any city, there will be political influence on what is said, what kind of images are to be projected and, yes, of course artists can be and are influenced by politicians. Votes: 6 Cai Guo-Qiang
It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or political injustice. Votes: 4 Cat Stevens
One of the reasons MSNBC is plummeting is that I, not long ago, refused to play any content from them. I figured, why? I mean, it's genuine depraved partisan politics insanity, genuine extremist radical ignoramuses on that network. Votes: 1 Rush Limbaugh
As foreign minister of Norway, I learnt how natural changes provoked by climate change are creating new sources of political instability. Votes: 5 Jonas Gahr Store
I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I'm telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy! Votes: 1 Dalai Lama
I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right. Votes: 3 Harold Pinter
I have a huge political interest. I just wish I had the courage to come into politics in India. Votes: 4 Shekhar Kapur
If you're gay or religious you're always hearing this word tolerance. It's a pathetic word. It's actually just a politically correct word for the term intolerance. Votes: 2 Rupert Everett
I've personally backed off from direct political involvement. Votes: 6 Pat Robertson
You have not fully expressed your power as a voter until you have scientific literacy in topics that matter for future political issues. Votes: 1 Neil deGrasse Tyson
I always feel that most political jokes, if you're going to do them, you have to do them within the next five minutes, or else they're outdated. By the time you've got it to the point that it's strong, it would be 12 years old. Votes: 4 Gilbert Gottfried
I don't believe in gutter politics. I don't believe in gutter journalism. Votes: 4 Maria Shriver
Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills? Votes: 5 Khalil Gibran
Committed partisans are generally the most knowledgeable voters, independents the least. And the more political knowledge people have, the more apt they are to discuss politics with people who agree with, and reinforce, them. Votes: 6 George Will
I'm a Hollywood pinhead; I don't know about political labels. Votes: 4 Rob Lowe
I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language. Votes: 4 Taki Theodoracopulos
I think leadership is knowing what you want to achieve and then purposefully and sensibly taking steps to achieve it, remembering always that you have got to bring people with you if you are seeking to be a successful political leader. Votes: 1 Tony Abbott
There is no more effective way to radicalize American Muslim youth than for political leaders to make public displays of prejudice against all Muslims. Suspicion will undermine their sense of identification with America and alienate some from both the culture and from politics. Votes: 1 Miroslav Volf
Despite the increasingly presidential style of political leadership in our country, teamwork is essential. Votes: 6 Bob Ainsworth
As long as the big banks are allowed to remain big, their political leverage over Washington will remain big. And as long as their political leverage remains big, the taxpayer and economic tab for the next mess they create will be big. Votes: 3 Robert Reich
Enlist the interests of stern Morality and religious Enthusiasm in the cause of Political Liberty, as in the time of the old Puritans, and it will be irresistible. Votes: 3 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's. Votes: 5 Jean Rostand
Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life. Votes: 1 John Howard
The American creationist movement has entirely bypassed the scientific forum and has concentrated instead on political lobbying and on taking its case to a fair-minded electorate... The reason for this strategy is overwhelmingly apparent: no scientific case can be made for the theories they advance. Votes: 3 Kenneth R. Miller
This aesthetic quality, then, is what politics is all about. It's authenticity that separates winners from losers, good politics from bad, and he-man leader-types from consultant-directed puppet-boys. Votes: 3 Thomas Frank
A life in politics is for people who know themselves and know where their own line is between loyalty and honesty. Votes: 6 Nicolle Wallace
The Democratic Party is made up of trial lawyers, labor unions, government employees, big city political machines, the coercive utopians, the radical environmentalists, feminists, and others who want to restructure society with tax dollars and government fiat. Votes: 4 Grover Norquist
They must move from a psychological state of victimization to a psychological state of accepting responsibility. The Palestinians must leave behind their revolutionary adolescence and demonstrate that they have reached political maturity. Votes: 3 Ari Shavit
Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes. Votes: 6 George Bernard Shaw
Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood. Votes: 3 Jonathan Haidt
Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians. Votes: 1 Pat Robertson
Certainly, the murder of civilians for political statement did not just begin on September 11, 2001. Votes: 2 Cliff Stearns
For me, to find a place that doesn't have an organized tour going to it is becoming more and more difficult. A lot of times it involves danger of a political nature - places where the adventure-travel trips can't go because they can't get any liability insurance. Votes: 1 Tim Cahill
I was considering running for political office. Votes: 3 Michael Newdow
I'm an easy target because of my political opinions. Votes: 4 Sean Connery
I'm an easy target because of my political opinions. Votes: 6 Sean Connery
Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself. Votes: 1 Herbert Hoover
Where the states are dead set on suppressing political opposition, it's very hard to overcome that. Votes: 5 Jill Stein
Ours is an age in which thousands are driven daily from their homelands by the unforgiving brutalities of war, terrorism, political oppression, starvation, disease, economic piracy, and the relentless suffocation of that singular breath which makes human beings individuals. Votes: 3 Aberjhani
A phone tree isn't an ancient form of political organizing, but you have to call every person. Votes: 4 Howard Rheingold
The Crown Prince has said he needs to broaden political participation in the governing of Saudi Arabia. Votes: 5 Frank Carlucci
All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies. Votes: 3 John Arbuthnot
If you belonged to a political party or a social club that was tied to as much bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, violence, and sheer ignorance as religion is, you'd resign in protest. Votes: 1 Bill Maher
There is no political will for peace in the Israeli government. They're not serious about political peace because they're still building settlements and demolishing Palestinian homes. That is a great tragedy. Votes: 3 Mairead Corrigan
My favourite author is Leon Trotsky - the political philosophy and the way he writes is beautiful, and really relevant, too. Votes: 6 Andrej Pejic
The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets. Votes: 1 Lysander Spooner
Squabbling in public will eventually ruin football; there's no doubt it's hurting us already. Polls taken by Louis Harris - polls as valid as any political polls - indicate that very clearly. Votes: 4 Pete Rozelle
As soon as I got out of jail, as soon as my trial was over, first of all, during the time I was in jail, there was an organization called the National United Committee to Free Angela Davis, and I insisted that it be called National United Committee to Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners. Votes: 3 Angela Davis
The political process does not end on Election Day. Young people need to stay involved in the process by continuing to pay attention to the conversation and holding their leaders accountable for the decisions they make. Votes: 1 Patrick Murphy
Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market. Votes: 6 Barbara Mikulski
I don't think it's the job of theatre at the moment to provide political propaganda; that would be simplistic. We have to explore our situation further before we will understand it. Votes: 4 Edward Bond
I've been through so many different political races. Votes: 4 Mary Fallin
Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism. Votes: 4 Claude McKay
One thing I have frankly decided is that when it comes to political reform we have two conservative parties in British politics. Both the Labour and Conservative parties have constantly and repeatedly failed to honour promises they have made about reforming, cleaning, modernising our clapped-out system. Votes: 6 Nick Clegg
More than half of America's rural counties are losing population and with it, political representation. Votes: 4 Tom Vilsack
For those of us who can't be active on the front lines - and this will be most of us - our job is to create a culture that will encourage and promote political resistance. The main tasks will be loyalty and material support. Votes: 3 Lierre Keith
We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people. Votes: 7 Helmut Kohl
I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason - to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement. Votes: 4 Dalai Lama
All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions. Votes: 4 John Stuart Mill
Unquestionably, American political rhetoric can be repugnant, and the Right can certainly be as guilty as the Left. Votes: 4 John Podhoretz
While the Right of Suffrage is conceded to thousands notoriously ignorant, vicious, and drunken, ... a Constitutional denial to Black men, as such, of Political Rights freely secured to White men, is monstrously unjust and irrational. Votes: 3 Horace Greeley
It's a rarity when someone takes a political risk in Washington today in the public interest. Votes: 4 Arlen Specter
I never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me. Votes: 2 Tracey Ullman
I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites. Votes: 1 Nelson Mandela
Significant steps have been taken since 9-11 to protect out country here at home, but much remains to be done, Americans from across the political spectrum must come together to develop the next phase of our efforts to counter global terror. Votes: 2 Warren Rudman
You can't trust politicians. It doesn't matter who makes a political speech. It's all lies - and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well. Votes: 1 Bob Geldof
Hollywood is right. A good and strong movie can have a more powerful social impact than any and all political speeches or newspaper editorials and columns. Votes: 6 Mike Royko
The need for peace in Northern Ireland goes well beyond political stability. It now speaks to regional Europe and even global stability. Votes: 5 Hillary Clinton
I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am not a banker or an accountant. I feel that there is a time when a political statement needs to be made and I make it. Votes: 1 Arundhati Roy
In historical and constitutional terms, the recent political status vote in Puerto Rico was a necessary but obviously not decisive step on the road of self-determination leading to full self-government. Votes: 1 Dick Thornburgh
In short, killing the goose that lays the golden egg is a viable political strategy, so long as the goose does not die before the next election and no one traces the politicians' fingerprints on the murder weapon. Votes: 4 Thomas Sowell
For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom. Votes: 7 Octavio Paz
No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa. Votes: 1 Eugene Ionesco
November is Hip-Hop History Month, where we give celebration to what hip hop has done to bring together people of the world, people of all nationalities, young people, all the political systems and politicians on the planet. Votes: 1 Afrika Bambaataa
My mom always talks about how hard it was to grow up in a political family. It's always split up, and just - I want to have fun in life. No, politics isn't on the list. Votes: 1 Patrick Schwarzenegger
The first rule of good theatre is 'Show, don't tell.' It applies to good political action as well. Votes: 4 Carne Ross
A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible. Votes: 4 Francis Parker Yockey
I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking. Votes: 1 Franklin D. Roosevelt
Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred. Votes: 4 Jacques Barzun
What makes me worry today is the alarming decline in the trust in democratic institutions - political parties, Parliaments, political leaders. Less and less people are going to the polls in most advanced democracies. Votes: 6 Ivan Krastev
Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about. Votes: 5 Johann Lamont
Only a country that feels invulnerable can afford political turmoil as entertainment. Votes: 4 Lionel Shriver
There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing. Votes: 2 Laura Ingraham
The prophecy of a world moving toward political unity is the light which guides all that is best, most vigorous, most truly alive in the work of our time. Votes: 3 Walter Lippmann
Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe. Votes: 2 Elie Wiesel
Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe. Votes: 1 Elie Wiesel
I've always been very interested in political violence. When I finished high school, I did a small dissertation about political violence and fascism in Italy. Votes: 6 Loretta Napoleoni
In the lexicon of the political class, the word 'sacrifice' means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it. Votes: 4 George Will
It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly. Votes: 3 John George Nicolay
Political work is the life-blood of all economic work. Votes: 1 Mao Zedong
What do you call a co-worker these days? Neither teammate nor confederate will do, and partner is too legalistic. The answer brought from academia to the political world by Henry Kissinger and now bandied in the boardroom is colleague. It has a nice upper-egalitarian feel, related to the good fellowship of collegial. Votes: 1 William Safire
Any suggestion that I'm writing about political operatives because I'm interested in political operatives misses the entire point. Votes: 4 Bob Woodward