Political Quotes
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All my economic ideas as developed over twenty-five years can be summed up in the words: agricultural-industrial federation. All my political ideas boil down to a similar formula: political federation or decentralization.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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Political art - not always a contradiction in terms - can destroy institutions, or eat away at them.
Joe Haldeman
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It's very simple. If the American people care about a lot of things including corruption in government, then, in fact, if you use the power to appoint in order to do political business, to clear fields, to save your party money and so on, if it's not a crime - and I believe it is - it certainly is business as usual, politics of corruption.
Darrell Issa
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Tonight was a great opportunity to take on the political status quo that has given us trillion dollar deficits and put millions out of work. Our objective was to inject some common sense into the conversation among Republicans at a time when business-as-usual simply won't work.
Gary Johnson
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I take policy seriously; I'm not just trying to be a political hack.
Dave Brat
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My definition of feminism is a social, political, economic system by which all genders are valued, respected, and can live dignified lives.
Alicia Garza
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The fear of a work becoming dated is one of the most effective tools for keeping people from writing political work.
Tony Kushner
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Regardless of our political stance, we cannot afford to perpetuate the Western car-centric model.
Jens Martin Skibsted
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As we celebrate 75 years of the minimum wage, we must also recognize that it is no longer achieving its potential impact in our economy or for America's working families. Every American deserves the chance to build a better life for his or her family - and raising the minimum wage will provide that opportunity.
Tom Harkin
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There are a certain number of extreme behaviours led by fundamentalists who are using their religion for political ends and use extremist techniques.
Jean-Francois Cope
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During his long political career, my father was always active in communicating the Christian gospel from the evangelical perspective,...
Preston Manning
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Are we, in this age of civilization and political progress... to roll back the whole current of human thought, and again return to the mere brute force which prevails between beasts of prey, as the only method of settling questions between men?
Jefferson Davis
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Obviously when it comes to the question of telling stories about other people's lives in a situation as political as South Africa, you get to be political.
Athol Fugard
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There is a need for financial reform along ethical lines that would produce in its turn an economic reform to benefit everyone. This would nevertheless require a courageous change of attitude on the part of political leaders.
Pope Francis
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I believe - and so do most Puerto Ricans - that the ideas that will prevail in the new century will be those similar to the basic principles of commonwealth, of national reaffirmation, and political and economic integration among the peoples of the world.
Anibal Acevedo Vila
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I understand that, for some, everything is political.
Blake Farenthold
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The initial attraction of a political convention was that often the outcome was not preordained. There was at least some element of surprise. But, now it's like tuning in to a movie where you already know the plot and the ending. It's just not that interesting.
Mark McKinnon
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On 'The Soup,' we were never a political show.
Joel McHale
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The Universal Declaration... as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations...it not only crystallizes the political thought of our times on these matters, but it has also influenced the thinking of legislators all over the world.
Dag Hammarskjold
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Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.
Fritz Sauckel
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Our world is utterly saturated with fear. We fear being attacked by religious extremists, both foreign and domestic. We fear the loss of political rights, a loss of privacy, or a loss of freedom. We fear being injured, robbed or attacked, being judged by others, or neglected, or left unloved.
Brendan Myers
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With the conception that the Revolution was only a means of securing political power, it was inevitable that all revolutionary values should be subordinated to the needs of the Socialist State; indeed, exploited to further the security of the newly acquired governmental power.
Emma Goldman
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We can trust our doctors to be professional, to minister equally to their patients without regard to their political or religious beliefs. But we can no longer trust our professors to do the same.
David Horowitz
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Bond is the longest-running franchise ever and there's a reason for that: they are action movies but they are also touched by current events without being political or too serious.
Javier Bardem