Political Quotes

• We must now face the difficult task of moving towards a single economy, a single political entity .. For the first time since the fall of the Roman Empire we have the opportunity to unite Europe.

  

  Romano Prodi
  • Opportunity
  • Moving
  • Difficult

• ABC forbids political activity by journalists.

  

  Bill Dedman
  • Political

• Let me see: art and activism. I can always fall back on, "the question should be, what isn't political? Everything you do is political, even if it's abstract. You're making a political statement even if it's unwittingly." I think so much of art is unconscious anyway, the artist doesn't know the real reason they're doing it. They're just kind of going along with it intuitively.

  

  Eric Drooker
  • Artist
  • Statement
  • Activism

• A large part of the present anxiety to improve the education of girls and women is also due to the conviction that the political disabilities of women will not be maintained.

  

  Millicent Fawcett
  • Girl
  • Anxiety
  • Conviction

• I had never supported a political figure - and I went out and supported Obama.

  

  Will Ferrell
  • Political
  • Figures

• I don't set out to transmit a message. I don't write with a political point of view. There are no religious overtones. Looking back at my books, I can say, 'Oh, yes, it is there.' But it's not in my mind when I write.

  

  Lois Lowry
  • Mind
  • Political
  • Religious

• Essential to the self-image of conservatives is the notion that they are enemies of an established orthodoxy, insurgents against the dogmatic political correctness that predominates on the Left.

  

  Jacob Weisberg
  • Political

• It is clear that the photo ID requirement is not a solution to a problem but is instead a political ploy to prevent traditionally disenfranchised populations from voting for the candidates of their choice.

  

  Marc Veasey
  • Political

• Sometimes people say to me, 'Well, what was the difference between Kosovo, which was a successful intervention, and Iraq and Afghanistan that have been so difficult?' And the answer is perfectly simple. In Kosovo, you have, after the removal of the loss of its regime, you had a process of political and economic reconstruction that took its part without the intervention of terrorism. If you had the intervention of terrorism, by the way, it would have been extremely difficult there - but we didn't.

  

  Tony Blair
  • People
  • Simple
  • Sometimes

• It is not what your supporters, friends or your political adversaries call you that matters. What is important is what you think you must do in the interests of the country, which put you in such position, such post as the Head of the Russian State.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Country

• What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If voters care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots.

  

  Newt Gingrich
  • Political
  • Purpose

• Whatever the final outcome in Iraq, our men and women in uniform should stand tall with pride for a job well done. It was our political leaders - of both parties and both presidencies - who failed us.

  

  Kathleen Troia McFarland
  • Men
  • Women
  • Done

• Democracy is our most valuable possession. Upholding it is our duty and our responsibility. This means a continuous, decisive and self-confident argument; it means effort and endeavor to reach compromise and long-lasting consensus. These form the cornerstones of the only form of political system that can guarantee freedom.

  

  Wolfgang Thierse
  • Responsibility
  • Democracy
  • Argument

• 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
  • Country
  • Political
  • Racism

• America is experiencing an Islamist cultural-political offensive designed to undermine and destroy our civilization.

  

  Newt Gingrich
  • America
  • Political

• I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth.

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • Men
  • Mean
  • Voting

• A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience.

  

  Stanley Baldwin
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Vision

• It's just as political, what you do in the bedroom is just as political as what you do in public.

  

  Christopher Bollen
  • Political
  • Bedroom

• I felt like there wasn't a political discourse. I felt like there was just one set of values, and any one set of values was wrong; that there should at least be room for conversation.

  

  Cecily McMillan
  • Values
  • Conversation
  • Rooms

• Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part of the globe for which there has ever been anything like political freedom: the typical state of mankind is tyranny, servitude, and misery.

  

  Milton Friedman
  • Freedom
  • Mankind
  • Misery

• The Israel stories were really hard for me to write, because I think that my book is very much about politics, but it isn't political. It really was important for me to not have a political agenda at all, because I have a hard time stomaching any political fiction that feels message-y.

  

  Molly Antopol
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Political

• Our only political stance is this: listen to these teachers.

  

  Charles Best
  • Political

• Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree - very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.

  

  Stanley Baldwin
  • Tree
  • Giants
  • Dictatorship

• One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends.

  

  Caryl Rivers
  • Engineering
  • Century
  • Invention

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