Political Quotes

• I wouldn't know the political solution to ending the conflict in those countries that refugees escape from. The only thing I know for sure, however, is that we need to help these people.

  

  Bianca Balti
  • People
  • Help
  • Political

• The blind spot for the in the Southern Progressive Movement - as for that matter in the national [progressive] movement - was the Negro, for the whole movement in the South coincided paradoxically with the crest of the wave of racism. Still more important to the association of the two movements was the fact that their leaders were often identical. In fact, the typical Progressive reformer rode to power in the South on a disenfranchising or white-supremacy movement.

  

  C. Vann Woodward
  • Philosophy
  • Leader
  • Racism

• My personal political convictions are rooted in the populist political traditions of western Canada.

  

  Preston Manning
  • Political

• Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.

  

  Charles Krauthammer
  • Country
  • Character
  • American

• I believe there should be political consequences for politicians who commit voter suppression.

  

  Jason Kander
  • Believe
  • Political

• The absence of political personalities in the government will help rather than hinder a solid base of support for the government in parliament and in the political parties because it will remove one ground for disagreement.

  

  Mario Monti
  • Help
  • Political
  • Support

• But while capitalism may be a convenient scapegoat, it did not cause any of these problems. Indeed, whatever one wishes to call the unruly mixture of freedom and government controls that made up our economic and political system during the last three decades, one cannot call it capitalism.

  

  Yaron Brook
  • Up
  • May
  • Freedom

• Being born, especially being born a person of color, is a political act in itself.

  

  Andres Serrano
  • Political
  • Color

• The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation.

  

  E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
  • Party
  • Rest
  • Politics

• Already, China has undermined U.S. foreign policy in efforts to gain access to oil resources in Iran and Sudan. We simply cannot separate the political and economic values of oil.

  

  Jo Ann Emerson
  • Political

• If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Men
  • Education
  • Wisdom

• If I'm watching 'The Real Housewives of Atlanta,' there's a part of that that's just escapism. I'm not watching it with a political lens, but there is a part of me that certain things trigger and pull up, where I'm like, 'Oh, that was really problematic.'

  

  Janet Mock
  • Up
  • Real
  • Political

• I'm not saying to you that every element of segregation and discrimination and second-class citizenship has changed. But in the political sense, the world has changed. People now who want to vote can vote.

  

  John Doar
  • People
  • World
  • Political

• complete political and military control of the Russian side.

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • Control
  • Military
  • Russian

• For the most part, congressional Republicans represent people who are whiter, older and richer than most Americans, and our creaky old political system gives those Americans disproportionate influence over public policy.

  

  Alex Pareene
  • People
  • Political

• Some presidents, such as Bill Clinton and John F. Kennedy, are political sailors - they tack with the wind, reaching difficult policy objectives through bipartisan maneuvering and pulse-taking.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • Political
  • Wind

• [T]he kingdom of God... is to be a political institution that shall hold sway over all the earth; to which all other governments will be subordinate and by which they will be dominated.

  

  B. H. Roberts
  • God
  • Political
  • Earth

• Our enemies are real. But so are the moral questions and long-term political implications of drone strikes.

  

  Bruce Feirstein
  • Long
  • Real
  • Moral

• It's not in the mainstream media, but across towns, it is amazing how there are small groups of people getting together and forming artistic collectives - they may not be being overtly political, but I'd say by channelling their energy into community projects, that's a valid political statement.

  

  Johnny Flynn
  • People
  • May
  • Together

• The United States Jewish population has made many vital contributions in all areas of our society in such ways as helping to develop the cultural, scientific, political and economic life of our country.

  

  Jon Porter
  • Life
  • Country
  • Society

• Among the liberties of citizens that are guaranteed are ... the right to believe what one chooses, the right to differ from his neighbor, the right to pick and choose the political philosophy he likes best, the right to associate with whomever he chooses, the right to join groups he prefers.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Believe
  • Philosophy
  • Liberty

• It is hard to consider women a 'discrete and insular minority', unable to employ the 'political processes ordinarily to be relied upon' when they constitute a majority of the electorate. And the suggestion that they are incapable of exerting that political power smacks of the same paternalism that the Court so roundly condemns.

  

  Antonin Scalia
  • Women
  • Power
  • Political

• Around the world there are certain marital systems, certain physical systems, political systems, social systems, and all those things are kind of turned on their head but represented in various ways within "The Lobster."

  

  Colin Farrell
  • World
  • System
  • Ways

• The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.

  

  Emma Goldman
  • Political

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