Top 1200 Political Participation Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

The Union was destroyed against the will of the people, and it was done deliberately - with the participation of the Russian leadership, on the one hand, and that of the putschists, on the other.

I don't see how anybody cannot be political in this day and age. There's so much going on and you have to be aware and you have to vote. Our lives are political.

We've got communism. We have Bushism. We have Clintonism. But there isn't a Trumpism. Bullet-point for me what the Trump political philosophy is and you can't do it, because he's not a political guy.

Big-government economics breeds crony capitalism. It's corrupt, anything but neutral, and a barrier to broad participation in prosperity.

While I respect my cousin Annette Sykes' commitment in engaging in the political process, I do not endorse or support any political party.

The merely political aspect of the land is never very cheering; men are degraded when considered as the members of a political organization.

You know that we are against major foreign equity participation in the field of culture and information. This is not only our view in the BJP.

The public discourse on global warming has little in common with the standards of scientific discourse. Rather, it is part of political discourse where comments are made to secure the political base and frighten the opposition rather than to illuminate issues. In political discourse, information is to be 'spun' to reinforce pre-existing beliefs, and to discourage opposition.

The President appoints the U.S. Attorneys. They're political in a certain respect. But the Department of Justice - the power that they hold is so great, it's life and limb, you know - put you in jail, make you run up hundreds of thousands of dollars of legal costs. Even though we understand that political appointees take these jobs. We don't assume that the party in power is going to use that kind of power to advance its political interests.

I don't know if I even consider myself a very political person. I have always had strong beliefs on important social issues. Politics have politicized social issues, but I don't know if social issues are in fact political. If anything, they are more human issues than they are political issues.

If women are the key to Africa's future - and I believe they are - we must figure out how to take away the barriers to their participation.

There are several dozen political prisoners in Russia. When I cite that number people are often very surprised. They often think there are more. Well - there are hundreds of thousands of people who haven't had a fair trial, who are victims of the political system. But in the Amnesty International sense of the word, most of them are not political prisoners because they are not going to prison for protesting.

If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few; by resignation, none.

Let's face it: Many on the political right believe this president ought not to be there - they oppose him not for his polices and political view but for who he is, an African American!

Often dismissed or underestimated by political opponents, President Reagan had the most valuable weapon in the political arsenal: a bond with the people.

Political reporters and political professionals rushed to judgment against Romney because we crave clear, unambiguous story lines.

The trial organized with U.N. participation of some kind will be for crimes committed by Khmer Rouge leaders from 1975 to 1979. That's it.

To consciously evolve, we require clear vision of a compassionate future that draws out our enthusiastic participation in life.

Mere praise of peace is easy and ineffective. What is needed is acitve participation in the fight against war and everything which leads to it.

I follow politics avidly. I like sensible people of all political persuasions. My ideal political party would be a pick and mix.

'Shooting Star' started out as the arrangement on the record, and it's developed into a real audience-participation song, just from playing it.

With everybody being remote and everyone just getting one square, we have contributions and participation on a much more even playing field.

Political democracy cannot flourish under all economic conditions. Democracy requires an economic system which supports the political ideals of liberty and equality for all. Men cannot exercise freedom in the political sphere when they are deprived of it in the economic sphere.

Fashion is totally political, the icon of a political system.

A political man is disgusting, but a political wife, horrible.

When you get to political machines that can control a state, then you're really into organized crime - almost. You're fighting a political mafia.

What we need in Africa is balanced development. Economic success cannot be a replacement for human rights or participation or democracy... it doesn't work.

While I respect my cousin Annette Sykes commitment in engaging in the political process, I do not endorse or support any political party.

Even political insiders recognize that years of political effort on behalf of Evangelical Christians have generated little cultural gain.

Participation in the economy through stock ownership is a pretty important way of keeping the divide between the haves and have-nots from growing.

Obviously when it comes to the question of telling stories about other people's lives in a situation as political as South Africa, you get to be political.

To think about love and passion and political correctness all together, it doesn't work. Art has to go way past the political to be effective.

Subjects have no greater liberty in a popular than in a monarchial state. That which deceives them is the equal participation of command.

The power of Political Correctness is demonstrated by the entire political establishment coming to the defense of open immigration from Muslim-majority nations.

The nation which reposes on the pillow of political confidence, will sooner or later end its political existence in a deadly lethargy.

In a government institution, there is only one area in which problems are taken seriously, and that is the political. Many of the strange things done in American educationism suddenly become perfectly understandable when we see them not as educational methods but as political maneuvers. We must understand illiteracy, therefore, the root of ignorance and thoughtlessness, as not some inadvertent failure to accomplish what was intended but simply a political arrangement of great value to somebody.

Harnessing new communications technology offers one promising way to make public participation easier and more effective.

We want to govern with our indigenous ancestors' models: That means a different concept of participation, community work and honesty.

Very unusual in an insurgency to have absolutely no political agenda other than to return to power. Most insurgents have a political side to them.

Hundreds of social networks and websites such as Facebook and Twitter are trying to weaken people's morale and decrease their participation in the elections.

Whatever the eventual judgment, the political implications of Hutton are already clear. A devastating indictment of Labour in power - and of our political system itself.

They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and fruits of society as every other individual.

If you're dealing with a powerful leader, you're inevitably going to have a dialogue with her political past. It was always my intention to interrogate Thatcher's political life.

Writing about relationships is political. The personal is political.

Protest is political. It is as political as what our conception of America is.

Every country has its political face and political traditions.

There's no doubt about it that my participation in sports allowed me to compete in the business world in a very gender-neutral way.

The ACA's reliance on mandatory participation in exchanges as the only way to obtain a health insurance subsidy is fundamentally flawed.

On the international political landscape, there is better understanding of Pakistan's political economic and strategic issues. We aspire to promote peace and harmony with the region.

There isn't much political coloration in my economic writing; it's not surprising that few people know my political views. They really aren't very important.

As President Obama is inaugurated for a second time, the biggest political surprise is that gun control is now key to his political legacy.

With participation in politics so low at the moment I think Christians should ensure their views are represented at all levels and not leave it to others.

As Americans, preserving the best of our traditions, we have the right- nay the duty-to fight for participation in the forward march of humanity

The school is a political prize of the highest importance. It cannot be deprived of its political character as long as it remains a public and compulsory institution.

With it adult political audiences abandoned cinemas. In their place appeared a void. That previous political audience migrated to the seats in front of their TV.

He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.

When you have a political environment that is being so heavily influenced by the Tea Party that calls for shrinking the size of government, you can't ignore it. There are political realities.

Although everything has a political connotation today, 'Mulk' is a social film, to be honest. It is not about any political leader, party or ideology.

It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied.

I do not have any political commitments anymore. I'm politically a total agnostic; I'm one of the few writers in Italy who refuses to be identified with a specific political party.