Quotes about political
political election politician
The only true allegiance a politician has is to his own re-election. Michelle Malkin
political energy audience
The energy I was sensing in audiences was political energy, as much as anything else. Michael Pollan
political eating eco
Eating is a political act.
political-opinions nuclear-disarmament unity
When are we left-wingers going to learn that we are losing the cultural and political battle with conservatives because we are fractured into narcissistic special-interest groups? Why should an antiwar protestor be so concerned about her dietary identity? The political opinions of vegetarians and meat-eaters are, after all, equally important. And what does it tell us about vegetarians that it would never occur to meat-eaters to carry a sign that reads "Pacifist Pork Chop Lover for Peace" or "Backyard Rib Barbecuer for International Nuclear Disarmament"? Sherman Alexie
political watches three
I use to watch like maybe three or four movies, five days out of the week. I was a movie buff, but I really didn't know what it was like behind the scenes, or the whole political process of it. Michelle Rodriguez
political activist
I and you and everyone else has to be a political activist. Michael Moore
political comedian serious
If you're watching a comedian on television and he's making a political point, I would say he's gotten too serious. Norm MacDonald
political degrees poetry-is
All poetry is political, to some degree. Mike Young
political intellectual way
[Marx's theories] gave me a political and intellectual justification for what I believed in a way that nothing else did. Neil Kinnock
political taste action
My films can be considered political action against the tyranny of good taste. John Waters
political doe produce
Production does not consist in things laboriously made, but in things serviceably consumable; and the question for the nation is not how much labour it employs, but how much life it produces. John Ruskin
political revolution politics
Revolutions are not made for export. Nikita Khrushchev
political vision movement
If the euro zone doesn't come up with a comprehensive vision of its own future, you'll have a whole range of nationalist, xenophobic and extreme movements increasing across the European Union. And, frankly, questions about the British debate on EU membership will just be a small sideshow compared to the rise of political populism. Nick Clegg
political democracy weapons
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness. Niels Bohr
political use principles
The business of a Political Economist is neither to recommend nor to dissuade, but to state general principles, which it is fatal to neglect, but neither advisable, nor perhaps practicable, to use as the sole, or even the principal, guides in the actual conduct of affairs. Nassau William Senior
political suffering imbeciles
The only valid political system is one that can handle an imbecile in power without suffering from it Nassim Nicholas Taleb
political intellectual opponents
Ward Churchill might be more valuable to the opponents of the academic left employed than unemployed. Above all, he can serve as a living window into the intellectual, moral, and political bankruptcy of the left. Mort Kondracke
political politics conservative
Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen. Mort Sahl
political-opinions doubt littles
There is little doubt that the majority of Mr. Mills supporters in 1865 did not know what his political opinions were, and that they voted for him simply on his reputation as a great thinker. Millicent Fawcett
political movement womens-suffrage
What is true of Mr. Mill's influence on the women's-suffrage question is true also of the other political movements in which he took an active interest.
political slavery politics
The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.
political pressure serious
I'm not going to be part of looking at information only partially. I'm not going to be part of just coming to quick conclusions. I'm not going to be part of political pressure to do this or not do that. I'm not going to be part of that. This is serious. Max Cleland
political care messy
Health care, it's going to be political. It's going to be, let's say, the confluence of the politics and the messy implementation. Mark Shields
political abandoned
White working-class voters or working-class voters have felt abandoned, have felt, in many senses, disparaged by the political leadership of America.
political alternatives substance
At the next election he'll offer the British public an alternative that provides weight and substance and seriousness in a political debate that is, frankly, increasingly obsessed with modishness and flim-flam. Paddy Ashdown
political landscape film
There's no social realism in 'Tyrannosaur.' It's not about the social landscape or the political landscape or any of that. It's just about human beings. I never made 'Tyrannosaur' in reference to anybody - I just made it because I had to make my own films. Paddy Considine
political style democracy
Television is democracy at its ugliest. Paddy Chayefsky
political-will talking-politics libertarian-party
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. Plato
political politics doe
A mouse does not rely on just one hole. Plautus
political honor sake
... the good are not willing to rule either for the sake of money or of honor.
political wish citizens
That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman.
political being-positive may
... what we can be positive about is what we have just said, namely that they must be given the right education, whatever that may be, as the surest way to make them behave humanely to each other and the subjects in their charge.
political loyal way
In political life, it is extremely difficult to remain loyal to a friendship when constellations of power or interests are in the way. Martin Schulz