Political Quotes
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I'm sure I'll be doing something of social or political worth the rest of my life.
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Sometimes you have to shake the tree in order to make things happen. And if that has a political cost, I will take it, as long as it saves lives.
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Obama's extraordinary political skills suggest he is more than capable of rising above any personal historical grudges he may have inherited.
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I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
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Other people can write grown-up, political plays about the troubles in the world. My plays deal with magic and hope.
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Abortion doesn't belong in the political arena. It's a private right, like many other rights concerning the family.
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I am not a political man and I have no political convictions. I am an individual and a believer in liberty. That is all the politics I have. On the other hand I am not a super-patriot. Super-patriotism leads to Hitlerism - and we've had our lesson there. I don't want to create a revolution - I just want to create a few more films.
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I have always had trouble recognizing myself in the features of the intellectual playing his political role according to the screenplay that you are familiar with and whose heritage deserves to be questioned.
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It's not my place to tell you whom to vote for, to take any political stand, to tell you what religion to believe in. I'm an athlete. I can influence certain things, but when I see other athletes and celebrities telling you whom to vote for, I actually get a bit offended.
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I don't know how you define 'neoconservatism,' but I think it's associated with trying to spread open political systems and democracy.
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It's interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant.
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The late Roy Jenkins was both a mentor and a personal friend. He was a man of both phenomenal intellect and political achievement in equal measure.
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I always laugh and say, 'Dudes, if I have to choose, I'm a political person first. I would never do another movie again and be completely happy.' I need to say how I feel.
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I was with - he wasn't the president then, but - Barack Obama, when he was running, in Washington, during Black Congressional Caucus Weekend, and did a panel about global warming with him. It was almost as if I switched careers for a while, and became a political activist.
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I just don't think we think about jurists as rock stars or great thinkers, particularly in the political world.
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The last thing abandoned by a party is its phraseology, because among political parties, as elsewhere, the vulgar make the language, and the vulgar abandon more easily the ideas that have been instilled into it than the words that it has learnt.
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No Republican presidential candidate is a viable option for pro-choice voters of any political philosophy - Democrat, Republican or otherwise.
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I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.
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The Republicans here in Concord and down in Washington D.C. would have us believe that the War on Women is a phony war. Michele Bachmann and Fox News would have us believe that the whole thing is 'political fiction.'
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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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Any contemporary political re-statement of liberal and socialist goals must include as central the idea of a society in which all men would become men of substantive reason, whose independent reasoning would have structural consequences for their societies, its history and thus for their own life fates.
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Be faithful, be vigilant, be untiring in your efforts to break every yoke, and let the oppressed go free. Come what may - cost what it may - inscribe on the banner which you unfurl to the breeze, as your religious and political motto - "NO COMPROMISE WITH SLAVERY! NO UNION WITH SLAVEHOLDERS
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I have no great faith in political arithmetic, and I mean not to warrant the exactness of either of these computations.
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Political Islam is not a homogeneous bloc.
