Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Bridges

I first got involved with ending world hunger, and I got hip to the facts about it - what a huge problem it was and how it wasn't a matter of not having food or not knowing how to end it, but it was a matter of creating the political will.

George Will

As has been said, standards are always out of date - that is why we call them standards.

George Will

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.

George Will

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.

George Will

Liberalism is wrong because it doesn't work. If a company is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.

George Will

Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.

Jean-Claude Juncker

The use of EU summits to frame political victories or defeats is an annoying habit.

Jim Hightower

Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom.

Jim Hightower

Republicans are so empty-headed, they wouldn't make a good landfill.

Jerry Pournelle

Unrestricted laissez faire capitalism allocates resources in a most efficient way to satisfy human wants without regard to the rationality or morality of those desires.

Jerry Saltz

Many things happened in the sixties, but the period is no more significant, better, or more 'political' than today. It's time to turn the page.

Jens Stoltenberg

The Norwegian response to violence is more democracy, more openness and greater political participation,

Jeffrey Goldberg

There's practical political considerations obviously, but there's also these broader themes, which is like, I don't want to be the manager of the Middle East.

Jill Johnston

Until all women are lesbians, there will be no true political revolution.

Jesse Helms

This is an area where North Carolina does excel. I have known more colorful North Carolina political figures than I have colorless ones.

Jesse Jackson

Humanitarian appeals always help. They penetrate deeper than political tradeoffs.

Jesse Jackson

Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.

Jeffrey Rosen

[Louis] Brandeis had a very distinctive vision of political economy that he persuaded Woodrow Wilson to adopt in the 1912 election and that he largely enacted from the bench.

Jeffrey Sachs

Extreme poverty is the best breeding ground on earth for disease, political instability, and terrorism.

Jeff Flake

This Congress is out of control and in desperate need of adult supervision.

Jean Chretien

Vision is not political rhetoric.

James Carville

I've never seen a candidate - I've never seen a human being - who, with the most limited briefing, can understand the dimensions, the parameters, the nuances of everything of any kind of a policy or political problem.

James Buchan

The prevailing ideology of the modern west - which is political economy - is in the doghouse. Having failed to notice atmospheric pollution, the economists then frightened themselves with the sort of financial crisis they said they had abolished.

James A. Garfield

We are apt to be deluded into false security by political catch-words, devised to flatter rather than instruct.

George C. Wallace

After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.

George C. Wallace

I've seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but I've seen more of them who were paralyzed in the head.

Christine O'Donnell

That's one of the things I like about him, because he's been consistent since he changed his mind.

Christian Lous Lange

Internationalism is a social and political theory, a certain concept of how human society ought to be organized, and in particular a concept of how the nations ought to organize their mutual relations.

Gilbert Highet

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?

Gilbert Gottfried

I just don't accept midgets as human beings. There's only so much political correctness I can accept.

Fran Lebowitz

Perhaps one of the more noteworthy trends of our time is the occupation of buildings accompanied by the taking of hostages. The perpetrators of these deeds are generally motivated by political grievance, social injustice, and the deeply felt desire to see how they look on TV.

George Washington

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

George Washington

I am for free commerce with all nations; political connection with none; and little or no diplomatic establishment