Top 1200 Political Issues Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

You look at what animates Democratic voters; you look at what animates Democratic politicians: it's health care. It's increasingly climate. It is wages and economic issues. It's issues around reproductive freedom and criminal justice reform and inequality.

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

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

A Christian philosophy of literature begins with the same agenda of issues that any philosophy of literature addresses. Its distinctive feature is that it relates these issues to the Christian faith.

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

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

We want to do things that are interesting, great storytelling, some of it is gonna be more fun and funny, some of it is more serious and talking about interesting issues that we think are provocative and interesting to us. Kind of on a more political level. But, you know, just things that we find interesting that we think stories that need to be told.

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

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.

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

On big issues like war in Iraq, but in many other issues they simply must be multilateral. There's no other way around. You have the instances like the global warming convention, the Kyoto protocol, when the U.S. went its own way.

Adults have their own issues and their own problems, which are understandable, and some adults are working through their own adolescent issues.-

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

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

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

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

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

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

We need less political correctness and more political courage.

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

The war for our Union, with all the constitutional issues which it settled, and all the military lessons which it gathered in, has throughout its dilatory length but one meaning in the eyes of history. It freed the country from the social plague which until then had made political development impossible in the United States. More and more, as the years pass, does the meaning stand forth as the sole meaning.

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

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.

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

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

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

I believe that in order to tackle the big issues of the world today, like environmental issues, we need everybody's involvement. We need the resources of the corporate world. We need the cooperation of governments. We need the wisdom of indigenous people.

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

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

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

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

Being aware in the moment of right now is just the most important thing. All of our issues come from us not being aware enough or not seeing through our problems to the depths of the issues.

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

It was amazing to see Donald Trump on the night before election, who had been describing Hillary Clinton as crooked and corrupt, in a matter of a moment, was describing her as a fine and dedicated public servant, once he had won the election. So, there was a kind of barbarism all the way around, I think, in this political campaign, in which the issues really were boiled down to very small sound bites.

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 a pastor, I addressed the sorts of issues I see people struggling with most and the issues talked about most directly and most frequently in the New Testament. That leads us to recurring concerns with sexual immorality, relational sins, and vices associated with the breaking of the Ten Commandments.

The Bahamas is a small population. But it plays a lot bigger than the population suggests. You feel close to everything. Everything that happens in the wider world happens here. Like migration issues. Or refugee issues. Or homophobia.

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.

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.

There is no question that Hannity is a conservative. But I can tell you from personal experience after having worked with O'Reilly for years now, you never know where he is going to come out on an issue. He definitely leans right when it comes to certain social, traditional value issues, but he's all over the board on certain other issues.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

For 30 years I have used my platform in provocative ways to encourage a healthy dialogue about important issues, including HIV/AIDS, war, and homelessness. I'm well aware of the risks that come with this approach, and if this encourages further awareness and discussion about critical issues then all-the-better.

I have very mixed feelings about Jesse Jackson. He's very good about labor, and human and civil rights issues, but not so good on cultural issues.

Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself.

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

If Lacan presumes that female homosexuality issues from a disappointed heterosexuality, as observation is said to show, could it not be equally clear to the observer that heterosexuality issues from a disappointed homosexuality?

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

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

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

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