Top 1200 Political Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Every country has its political face and political traditions.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I'm very concerned with what's going on the news, but I would not call myself a political animal, per se. I pay more attention during election years, or if I see some topic or issue that I care about. But I would never call myself a political animal or political junkie.

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.

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

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?

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.

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.

My work isn't overtly political, although it is sometimes painted in places where I don't have permission to paint, so that could be construed as a political statement.

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

Political correctness is neither political nor is it correct. It amounts to social censorship, and the sooner we spit it out, the better.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

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.

Writing about relationships is political. The personal is political.

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

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

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.

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.

We need less political correctness and more political courage.

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

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

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.