Top 1200 Political Election Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

On the other hand, I think that Governor Romney has to worry that his turnout is going to be low, that he is not going to bring out the evangelicals, that he is not going to bring out the Tea Party stalwarts. If he does not, then it's pretty clear that he will lose the election. So I think turnout in key groups is going to be really, really key on Election Day.

From 1962 to 1965 the US was dedicated to try to prevent the independence of South Vietnam, the reason was of course that Kennedy and Johnson knew that if any political solution was permitted in the south, the National Liberation Front would effectively come to power, so strong was its political support in comparison with the political support of the so-called South Vietnamese government.

All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations.

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

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

The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.

Are we prepared to take on the enormous political power of the billionaire class or do we continue to slide into economic and political oligarchy?

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

Nobody wants a political prisoner, but a political emigrant is no problem.

I believe that any intelligent person who reads the evidence will come to the same conclusion about 2004 election results . But one will never be able to prove it to an absolute certainty because the votes were never counted in Ohio as the result of an illegal effort by public officials to derail the recount. Even if you do not believe that the election was stolen, there is no dispute that the Republicans made a deliberate, concerted effort to tilt the results in their favor.

The Russians succeeded, I believe, beyond their wildest expectations. Their first objective in the election was to sow discontent, discord, and disruption in our political life, and they have succeeded to a fare-thee-well. They have accelerated, amplified the polarization and the divisiveness in this country and they've undermined our democratic system. They wanted to create doubt in the minds of the public about our government and about our system; and they succeeded to a fare-thee-well. They've been emboldened and they will continue to do this.

In my view, it is not a question of Trump having won the election, it's a question of Democrats having lost the election. Democrats need a strong progressive agenda which says to the working class of this country, we are going the stand and fight for you, we're going to raise the minimum wage, pay equity for women, we're going to rebuild the infrastructure, and we're going to guarantee health care to all people as a right. We're going to make public colleges and universities tuition-free.

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.

With an abusive political relationship, with a political party that's throwing you under the bus, sister, I'm sorry to say but you don't have a future in this political party. You know, what they did to Bernie Sanders is what they have done to every progressive candidate and every real progressive movement within the party. They allow it to show its face and then they use the kill switch.

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

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

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

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

I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.

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 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.

Democracy, taken in its narrower, purely political, sense, suffers from the fact that those in economic and political power possess the means for molding public opinion to serve their own class interests. The democratic form of government in itself does not automatically solve problems; it offers, however, a useful framework for their solution. Everything depends ultimately on the political and moral qualities of the citizenry.

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

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

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

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

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

October is the cruelest month of any election year, but by then, the pain is so great that even the strong are like jelly and time has lost all meaning for anybody still involved in a political campaign. By that time, even candidates running unopposed have abandoned all hope of victory and live only for the day when they will finally be free to seek vengeance on all those treacherous bastards who once passed themselves off as loyal friends and allies and swore they were only in it because they all shared the same hopes and dreams.

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

We need less political correctness and more political courage.

As a political independent, I would gladly vote for any political party dedicated to limited government and entrepreneurship.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

Certain people in politics and the press felt there was a political spin to 'Cardiac Arrest,' but there was no political agenda to what I was doing.

The Democrats are still not being honest with themselves about what happened to them. You know, a lot of people voted for Donald Trump knowing full well what the baggage was. They didn't care. The Trump election was, in fact, about issues. It was dead-set on issues, and this is what the media refuses to understand. They know it; they just don't want to believe it, and they don't want to acknowledge it. They think that it was an election about Hillary Clinton being a rotten candidate.

Elections in India are not contests between personalities. They are ultimately battles involving political parties; promises and pledges that political parties make; the vision and programmes that political parties bring to the table. So although, Modi's style is 'I, me, myself,' I don't think 2014 elections as a Modi versus Rahul contest.

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

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

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

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

The American founders, when framing their governments, looked to the Bible for insights into human nature, civic virtue, social order, political authority and other concepts essential to the establishment of a political society. They saw in Scripture political and legal models - such as republicanism, separation of powers, and due process of law - that they believed enjoyed divine favor and were worthy of emulation in their polities.

Art is inherently political. Even trying to make a film that has nothing to do with politics is, in and of itself, a political act.

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.

There's a difference, though, between being a political appointee and putting a political operative in charge of a U.S. attorney's office.

My love is political. My body is political. I talk even when I don't speak.

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

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

It [the Euro] is a decisive step towards ever closer political and institutional union in Europe. Above all, it is political.

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

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.

As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.

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

An extraordinarily precocious mind, a political free thinker, who towered above his political contemporaries in Germany.