Political Quotes
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Though I do believe that when you live in political times it is inevitable that your art be political, I also think we need to start making activists celebrities rather than trying to make celebrities to be activists.
Maya Hawke -
This issue is not economic but political. I hope that all market participants interested in maintaining stable and reasonable world energy prices will finally make the right decision.
Vladimir Putin
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Marx's theories gave me a political and intellectual justification for what I believed in a way that nothing else did.
Neil Kinnock -
The most important political office is that of the private citizen.
Louis D. Brandeis -
The polarization of Congress; the decline of civility; and the rise of attack politics in the 1980s, the 1990s, and the early years of the new century are a blot on our political system and a disservice to the American people.
Edward Brooke -
I venture to say that every man who is not presumably incapacitated by some consideration of personal unfitness or of political danger is morally entitled to come within the pale of the Constitution.
William E. Gladstone -
Ideas are indeed the most dangerous weapons in the world. Our ideas of freedom are the most powerful political weapons man has ever forged.
William O. Douglas -
You cannot read the Bible and ignore the political realm.
Tony Evans
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I want people to start getting involved in voting for the Senate, Congress and local elections. I just want to see us get involved more in the political process especially when you see things like police brutality going on and different people complaining about the sheriffs whether it's in Ferguson or Missouri.
Charlamagne Tha God -
A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'
William Francis Buckley -
Am I right in saying that the locust of this problem is simply that judges in America are half political animals and half oracular demigods?
Dahlia Lithwick -
Triteness of content has not necessarily hurt ideologies in the past. There are very few original or profound ideologies on the political scene.
Brian Reynolds Myers -
'Fair' is one of the most dangerous concepts in politics. Since no two people are likely to agree on what is 'fair,' this means that there must be some third party with power - the government - to impose its will. The road to despotism is paved with 'fairness'.
Thomas Sowell -
I learned that the political is above the legal, that's why when my advisors tell me, Evo, what you are doing is illegal, I say, if it is illegal, then do it legal, you have studied for that".
Evo Morales
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Let the people decide whom to vote for, who has more authority. And only people, only our citizens, are able to place the final emphasis, voting for this or that person or political force, or rejecting it. That's democracy.
Dmitry Medvedev -
'Political junkies' and liberals will watch MSNBC, and angry, old right-wingers will watch Fox.
Alex Pareene -
We need... a much more competent and honest government. Economic reform and political reform must go hand in hand. Without the one there cannot be the other.
Jeffrey Sachs -
The anonymity issue is a big question. As long as people can disguise cyber attacks and as long as there is a sort of question mark over who is responsible, then the problem will continue to exist. And of course what happens in response to that is that there is a move to try and refashion the Internet so that anonymity is impossible, which of course leads to fears among all sorts of groups - civil rights groups, NGOs, and political parties - that the Internet is going to be used simply as a method of control. So these are very sensitive issues.
Misha Glenny -
Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.
George Bernard Shaw -
I think race and racism is probably the most studied social, economic, and political phenomenon in this country, but it's also the least understood.
Alicia Garza
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Are we all clear that we want to build something that can aspire to be a world power? In other words, not just a trading bloc but a political entity. Do we realise that our nation states, taken individually, would find it far more difficult to assert their existence and their identity on the world stage.
Romano Prodi -
We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life.
Max Lerner -
I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life.
Pete Seeger -
Any piece of art, when you're putting it on a certain platform, if the platform becomes a political place, you can manipulate things.
M.I.A.