Famous Quotes & Sayings

Evgeny Morozov

Personalization can be very useful in some contexts but very harmful in others. Searching for pizza online, it's probably OK to keep showing the same pizza shop as your No. 1 choice. I don't see any big political consequences out of that.

Jack Kevorkian

[Persons] who are recognized as citizens in any one state of the Union [have] the right to enter every other state, whenever they pleased... full liberty of speech in public and in private upon all subjects upon which its own citizens might meet; to hold public meetings upon political affairs, and to keep and carry arms wherever they went.

Irving Kristol

The major political event of the twentieth century is the death of socialism.

Harrison Ford

The environment has become a political, polarizing issue.

Guy Pearce

Working on a studio picture, I can't help but be aware of all the political stuff that's going on. I have to work to be able to survive, in a sense.

Glenn Greenwald

[N]othing is less reliable than unchecked claims from political officials that their secret conduct is justified by National Security Threats and the desire to Keep Us Safe.

Glenn Greenwald

When someone who wields political power does something you dislike or disagree with, it's incumbent upon you to object, criticize, and demand a different course. Those who refuse to do so are abdicating the most basic duty of citizenship and rendering themselves impotent.

Glenn Greenwald

American political culture quickly and always outpaces any attempt to satirize it.

Glenn Greenwald

History shows that the mere existence of a mass surveillance apparatus, regardless of how it is used, is in itself sufficient to stifle dissent. A citizenry that is aware of always being watched quickly becomes a compliant and fearful one.

Harry Browne

The problem with politics isn't the money; it's the power.

Harry Browne

A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not just those who have the resources to seize political power.

Harry Browne

Politicians are notoriously economically illiterate. And even when they know what would be the right thing, we don't really expect them to do it.

Ollanta Humala

I'm a victim of an anti-democratic campaign, a political ambush.

Jack Kornfield

The quieting of our mind is a political act.

J. J. Abrams

Approaching any movie with a three in the title you know you are not going to get a political polemic. You are not going to get some sort of political statement or ultra-deep message.

Frank Murkowski

it's more of a political problem than a waste problem.

Madeleine M. Kunin

Political success is often dependent on the ability to be heard above the din of controversy and debate and to set a course with one's own compass.

Lytton Strachey

Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole complexion of her social life, completely aristocratic.

Lou Dobbs

[I talk politics with Ted Turner] quite often. Usually with a great deal of excitement, because he has one political view and I have another. Despite our politics,we've agreed to be friends.

John Gokongwei

I dont usually make political comments, because I am a businessman, not a politician.

John F. Kennedy

I'm an idealist without illusions.

John F. Kennedy

Will Rogers once said it is not the original investment in a Congressman that counts; it is the upkeep.

John F. Kennedy

A rising tide (in the economy) lifts all boats.

Jonathan Gruber

Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage,

Jonah Goldberg

[American] liberalism today sees no realm of human life that is beyond political significance, from what you eat to what you smoke to what you say.

Jonah Goldberg

Someone once noted that a 'gaffe' in Washington is when a politician accidentally tells the truth.

Jon Stewart

I don't approve of political jokes; I have seen too many of them get elected.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science.

Paul Tsongas

That's a good question. Let me try to evade you.

Martin Cruz Smith

To capture the human cost of fallen empire with all its horror and absurdity, Sheets offers the right combination: the political insight of a top reporter and the power of a novelist.

Martin Amis

At its grandest, political correctness is an attempt to accelerate evolution.

Philippe Falardeau

I studied political science and international relations and had the intention of becoming a journalist or work in foreign affairs. I had no intention of making a film.

Pope Francis

For her part, the Church always works for the integral development of every person. In this sense, she reiterates that the common good should not be simply an extra, simply a conceptual scheme of inferior quality tacked onto political programmes. The Church encourages those in power to be truly at the service of the common good of their peoples.