Political Quotes
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I ran for political office in the Hamptons once in a war I was having with the village. I came in, there were four people running, and I came in around third. It was over my food market - they arrested me. I just wanted to go for office because I thought it would be an interesting to do.
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The economic prerequisites for the socialist revolution are fully matured in the US. The political premises are likewise far more advanced than might appear on the surface.
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Lauryn Hill is quite political and is very bold and isn't afraid of wearing her heart on her sleeve, and same with Bjork, except she is a little bit more kind of fragile.
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Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time.
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I am convinced that my dark-horse candidacy helped pave the way for women and members of underserved communities to seek political office.
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It's so hard to predict the political environment. I think that business can't sit on the sidelines and just watch. I think we need to be a force for the values that we believe in. We need to partner with government and regulators.
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My idea of art is, you write something that makes people feel so strongly that they get some conviction about who they want to be or what they want to do. It's morally useful not in a political way, but it makes your heart bigger; it's emotionally and spiritually empowering.
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A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
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When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
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The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.
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There is no private domain of a person's life that is not political, and there is no political issue that is not ultimately personal.
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The whole idea of 'Death Line' was to kind of highlight class distinctions in England more than to make a scary movie, and I just kind of wrapped my political treatise of the class distinctions in England in this movie.
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And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups.
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Clothes are a big part of a free society, I think, and what you wear is so indicative of the political climate you're living in.
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I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
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Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.
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I am a student of stupidity. I am a political reporter.
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My parents realized the dangers of raising a daughter in a social, political, and legal climate that was growing increasingly oppressive toward women and girls. Although they fled to London when I was just three weeks old, the challenges facing women's rights in Iran became ingrained in my social consciousness.
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The Zionist movement gave political expression to our claim to the land of Israel. And in 1922, the League of Nations recognized the justice of this claim.
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My arrest in Egypt happened in 2002, and I was convicted to five years as a political prisoner.
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I feel like comedy is important, and I think political satire can be really important.
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During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
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Slander was about liberals’ methods, Treason was about the political consequences of liberalism, and Godless is about the underlying mental disease that creates liberalism.
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Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
