Political Quotes
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I didn't decide to run for president to start a national crusade for the political reforms I believed in, or to run a campaign as if it were some grand act of patriotism. In truth, I wanted to be president because it had become my ambition to be president.
John McCain -
A large majority of Americans believe that corporations exert too much influence on our daily lives and our political process.
Jim McGovern
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But I'm not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when something becomes a political movement. What I'm interested in is emotions.
Bjork -
I've been through so many different political races.
Mary Fallin -
The Chinese government since 1979 has been very successful in economic development, and successful enough, simply by surviving, in the realm of political development.
William C. Kirby -
Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.
Clancy Brown -
Amazon is famously run by studying and responding to its own data; yet when it comes to promotions, decisions are often subjective and guided by human emotions and petty political dynamics.
Brad Stone -
I like that Ben & Jerry's is willing to speak out about social and political issues that aren't always safe - but are the right thing to do.
Jerry Greenfield
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In September 2008 - as Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy and AIG, the world's biggest insurance company, accepted a federal bailout - Senator John McCain of Arizona, in what was widely viewed as a political move, suspended his presidential campaign and called on Obama to rush back to Washington for a bipartisan meeting at the White House.
Andrew Ross Sorkin -
I reiterated our hope that negotiations over the United Kingdom's exit from the E.U. will be conducted in a smooth and orderly and transparent fashion and preserve as closely as possible the economic and political and security relationships between the U.K. and E.U.
Barack Obama -
I just want to be a nice girl from the Midwest - I don't want to have to act like a heavy to be taken seriously, and I resent that I have to be so pushy and political sometimes just to do my job.
Cindy Crawford -
Actually, I think I come at things a whole different way from most people, and, you know, sometimes political answers are one way to solve the problem, and sometimes there are better ways to do it.
Craig Benson -
A fine line separates Chinese intellectuals and professors from the political gangsters who protect them.
Ai Weiwei -
Mr. Ware has no right to discharge any of his laborers on account of their political opinion.
Charles E. Merrill
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Shared Sino-American global security goals would not mean that one partner dictates to the other. U.S.-PRC differences will persist, and on the Asian regional level they can even be a source of mutual irritation. Nor should it mean that we ignore the basic differences between our political systems and values.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.
John Arbuthnot -
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
Ernest Hemingway -
There's political content in almost every song we've ever written on some level. It colors everything.
Aaron Dessner The National -
I don't believe in politics. I'm an anarchist, I guess you could say. I think people could be just fine looking after themselves.
Woody Harrelson -
When you see the political parties squabble, if a baby is not allowed to be born, all the other issues do not come into play.
Alveda King
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The difference between a reporter, a newspaper columnist, a paid speaker, a television personality, a radio talk show host, a blogger, a movie producer, a publicist, and a political strategist, is growing less - and not more - distinct.
George Packer -
A mother-in-law is better than a single and childless political persona, though.
Vladimir Zhirinovsky -
I think all movies are political. The ones that are not political intentionally are the worst, and have the worst politics, I think.
Celine Sciamma -
Being born, especially being born a person of color, is a political act in itself.
Andres Serrano