Political Quotes
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The government and the church are two different realms of service, and those in political office have to face a subtle but important difference between the implementation of the high ideals of religious faith and public duty.
Jimmy Carter
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For future politics, I don't know what it holds, but if there's a possibility that the people want me to do another political office, again, maybe I'll do it.
Vance McAllister
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I will not ever run for political office. I can assure you.
David Petraeus
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The political process is rough and tumble by definition, and being grounded in faith in a Higher Power has proven helpful in navigating the difficult terrain.
Hakeem Jeffries
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Success should stem from entrepreneurial creativity, not political connectivity.
Foster Friess
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Women's struggle for equality worldwide is about more than equality between men and women. Our struggle is about reversing the trends of social, economic, political, and ecological crisis - a global nervous breakdown! Our struggle is about creating sustainable lives and attainable dreams.
Bella Abzug
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Two successive commissioners in London police were fired by the mayor that came into office. That doesn't mean the police in London is not independent and does not exercise powers. Ultimately it is the political executive that has to answer.
P. Chidambaram
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
Jackson Katz
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I took a political stance early on, but I don't think my work is overtly political. I respond to events.
Kara Walker
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When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance.
Oscar Niemeyer
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I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.
Naguib Mahfouz
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Mexico has experimented with political change since the late 1980s.
Enrique Pena Nieto
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The introduction of political pluralism often quickly led to bad results.
Omar Bongo
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It was a pleasure to meet President Obama and Michelle. I'm not a political person, but I admire what he has done.
Patricia McBride
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I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s spirit - audacious and irreverent, yet passionately engaged and committed to social change.
Camille Paglia
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Christians who have influence in political life must feel as individuals responsibility in front of their own faith. And the duty of encouraging laws that are not in contradiction with the Commandments comes within the mission of the Church.
Karl Lehmann
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People listen to what their political leaders are telling them, and my view is both that Trump is tapping into some racially ugly attitudes, but also that he is leading people to racially ugly attitudes.
J. D. Vance
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Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.
Gao Xingjian
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As a Christian, I'm passionately opposed to American pretensions that we have special standing with God; to political office-seekers who play on our religious differences; and to the religious arrogance that says, 'Our truth is the only truth.'
Parker Palmer
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When the Taiwan Relations Act passed in 1979, our biggest concern was preventing the use of military force against Taiwan. Little did we know that our friends on Taiwan could so effectively use the space created by our friendship to revolutionize their political system.
Sam Brownback
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My parents, particularly my father, had been used by commentators, political journalists and political commentators, to attack me, and the collateral damage was the reputations of my father and my mother.
Karl Rove
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Religious ideas, supposedly private matters between man and god, are in practice always political ideas.
Christopher Hitchens
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Your race and gender don't change, but you can choose to change your political affiliation at will.
John Podhoretz
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Enough to using Texas as a political laboratory for testing far-right ideas. Enough to using Texas as a workshop for fattening the wallets of their special interest friends and supporters. And enough of politicians listening only to each other, rather than real Texans.
Wendy Davis