Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Hope

I don't do a lot of political jokes. Too many are getting elected.

Benjamin Whichcote

Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.

Bob Geldof

Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it's empirically so.

Charlton Heston

Political correctness is just tyranny with manners. I wish for you the courage to be unpopular. Popularity is history's pocket change. Courage is history's true currency.

Calvin Coolidge

There is only one form of political strategy in which I have any confidence, and that is to try to do the right thing and sometimes be able to succeed.

Fatos Nano

We will rebuild Albania without Berisha as a political factor.

Without a political solution things will get worse. The situation is deteriorating in the remote areas.

Wilson was right when he called us a relentless political machine, and we will be in the Prop. 75 fight.

Bertrand Russell

Almost all education has a political motive.

Bertrand Russell

Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events.

We know it is the result of the political system in our country, because our society is sliding more and more into illegality.

I think I'll return to politics. I have some political visions. I don't know what they are yet, they're a little foggy.

We are still comfortable. In a BB range, we do have some tolerance for political noise." ()

Joan Allen

I don't have a political bone in my body.

John C. Calhoun

Protection and patriotism are reciprocal.

Mahatma Gandhi

My plea is for banishing the English language as a cultural usurper, as we successfully banished the political rule of the English usurper.

James Surowiecki

Since the Protestant majority in Northern Ireland wants to remain a part of Great Britain, and since Ireland itself has shown little interest in reunification, the IRA's prospects for success through political channels have always been limited.

James P. Cannon

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.

James McGreevey

As I climbed the electoral ladder - from state assemblyman to mayor of Woodbridge and finally to governor of New Jersey - political compromises came easy to me because I'd learned how to keep a part of myself innocent of them.

James McGreevey

Of all my false identities, the strategies in my campaign to be accepted, being a sworn Republican is the hardest to explain. In my later political life, I can only be described as a Kennedy Democrat, eager to pursue equitable treatment for the least fortunate.

James Madison

The nation which reposes on the pillow of political confidence, will sooner or later end its political existence in a deadly lethargy.

James Madison

The security intended to the general liberty consists in the frequent election and in the rotation of the members of Congress.

James Madison

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.

James Madison

There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.

John F. Kerry

I figured out Karl Rove's political strategy -- make gas so expensive, no Democrats can afford to go to the polls.

John Donne

Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.

John Oliver

I've always been interested in socially political, or overtly political, comedy.

Joe Klein

I came to political consciousness with John F. Kennedy's magnificent 1961 Inaugural Address. It seemed the start of something fresh and exciting, and it was.

Joe Klein

Political courage requires clarity.

Joe Klein

I've been described as a grizzled political veteran.

Garry Trudeau

Anyone dumb enough to get his political information from a comic strip deserves what he gets at the polls.

Frank Carlucci

The Crown Prince has said he needs to broaden political participation in the governing of Saudi Arabia.

Gaylord Nelson

Reaching a general understanding that sustainability is the ultimate issue will finally bring us face-to-face with the political challenge of forging a sustainable society during the next few decades. It is a challenge we can meet if we have the leadership and the political will to do so.