Top 1200 Best Political Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I've never made a political donation to Hillary Clinton or any other political candidate.

The very best Labor governments in our nation's history distinguished themselves by thinking big and, wherever possible, resisting the temptation to overemphasise short-term political considerations.

Hamas is a political party and political parties don't recognize other countries.

I'm not a political comic at all, so it would be weird if I just turned into a preachy, sort-of political commentator.

Political correctness may make for smooth edges, but it does little for the imagination and nothing for the arts. Writers work best when they are exploring at the outer limits of what is traditional, acceptable, or conventional.

My personal political convictions are rooted in the populist political traditions of western Canada.

Political rivalry is one thing but personal smear campaigns scrape the barrel of political infighting.

A lot of songs we've written have been political, but they're also personally political.

The issue that a political campaign would make a human life into - you know - a political football, is unsettling.

As a writer, I have readers who will have a range of political views. I don't think they look to me for political guidance.

The essential thing is the formation of the political will of the nation: that is the starting point for political action.

Anarchism is a theory of political science and is opposed to government in the political sense.

The Israel stories were really hard for me to write, because I think that my book is very much about politics, but it isn't political. It really was important for me to not have a political agenda at all, because I have a hard time stomaching any political fiction that feels message-y.

Without a unified political climate of opinion, there is little or no political profit in doing the right thing.

I have no political weight, and I haven't earned the right to launch some kind of political programme or stand as a candidate.

The best way to shine a light on all of this 'dark money' flooding into our elections would be for Congress to pass legislation requiring all organizations to disclose their political spending in a timely manner.

Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views.

There can be no political reform and democracy in any Arab country without accepting that political Islam is a part of it.

We need less political correctness and more political courage.

I love being able to be political without any political affiliation.

When we make political films, there are people with political opinions. They try to discredit you and run you down.

The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political

I do not understand those who divide political life from the point of view of political parties.

I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.

The artist can be above political parties, he can belong in a political party, he can act in politics.

Political freedom, as the Western world has known it, is only a political reading of the Bible.

I think my films are always political, even if I don't put explicitly political things in them.

Political philosophy is realistically utopian when it extends what are ordinarily thought to be the limits of practicable political possibility and, in so doing, reconciles us to our political and social condition. Our hope for the future of our society rests on the belief that the social world allows a reasonably just Society of Peoples.

There is a term called political correctness, and I consider it to be a euphemism for political cowardice.

Happens I am very political. I have deep political instincts.

I'd always liked the idea that drama acts at its best as a kind of arena for debate, not just about the thing itself, but also producing aesthetic, stylistic, political and moral discussions.

My record proves that I don't make political or public-service decisions based on what typical folks in Washington do, which is, 'What's going to get me past the next election, or what's best for my career?'

The Democratic Party is now a political mechanism having a genuine political principle: national socialism.

I don't consider myself a political artist, but I am political just by nature of being a woman.

I took a political stance early on, but I don't think my work is overtly political. I respond to events.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.

All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war.

Political success is a good deal pleasanter than political failure, but it too brings its problems.

The very essence of political philosophy is the carving out of an ethical system - strictly, a subset of ethics dealing with political ethics. Ethics is the one rational discipline that demands the establishment of a rational set of value judgments; political ethics is that subset applying to matters of State.

All good art should be political, I think, and inevitably it all becomes political really, in one way or another.

I'm a very political person, and I make political choices in my movies.

The reduction of political discourse to sound bites is one of the worst things that's happened in American political life.

Being gay is not a political accomplishment in itself. It's not enough to constitute a political platform.

If tolerance and kindness and acceptance and love are political, then I guess I am political.

Political novels are full of pitfalls, particularly for a novelist with strong political leanings.

I don't like politics. I am not aligned to any political party. I have friends in all political parties.

For decades, my identity was political, but I've come to understand that there's no political solution when you're dealing with someone else's rules.

Feminism needs a political program because gender inequality has been fostered by political decisions.

I've always been interested in socially political, or overtly political, comedy.

'Essence' is political. I grew up on the magazine, looking at the covers. Seeing ourselves on the cover is political.

In the case of women, it is of the living and unpublished blood that the violent world has professed to be delicate and ashamed. See the curious history of the political rights of woman under the Revolution. On the scaffold she enjoyed an ungrudged share in the fortunes of party. Political life might be denied her, but that seems a trifle when you consider how generously she was permitted political death.

I'm very committed to anti-racism and gender equality - political issues, but not party political.

Donald Trump lives and operates in a political world, but he's not political. This is what people still don't get.

The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.

There is no private domain of a person's life that is not political, and there is no political issue that is not ultimately personal.

I'm not a professional political analyst, so my political analysis is worth about what you pay for it.

Equal rights should not be a partisan political issue - so why are all gay leaders in one political party?

I think we need to price carbon; there's no question about it. The way we do it needs to be based on science and not political debates and attacks, and that's why I'm drawing on experts and best practices from around the world.

The specific political distinction to which political actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy.