Famous Quotes & Sayings

Winston Churchill

At the depths of that dusty soul there is nothing but abject surrender.

Winston Churchill

Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police.

Winston Churchill

A world united is better than a world divided, but a world divided is better than a world destroyed.

Winston Churchill

Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.

Willie Brown

You're going to be accused of every high crime and low misdemeanor there is.

Willie Brown

Dressing is a matter of taste, and I've met very few Republicans with good taste.

William S. Burroughs

All political organizations tend to function like a machine, to eliminate the unpredictable factor of affect - emotion.

William S. Burroughs

If you are asking me what the individual can do right now, in a political sense, I'd have to say he can't do all that much. Speaking for myself, I am more concerned with the transformation of the individual, which to me is much more important than the so-called political revolution.

William J. Brennan

After each perceived security crisis ended, the United States has remorsefully realized that the abrogation of civil liberties was unnecessary.

William Jennings Bryan

The great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.

Woodrow Wilson

By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary,' one who won't go at all.

Woodrow Wilson

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Will Self

Political activists of all stripes are usually a wacky bunch, and never more so than in a system like Britain's, where power is effected via the quiescence of the electorate as much as its convictions.

Will Self

That tertiary education is under a sustained assault by a political and - it often seems - social consensus that equates all education with training for increased productivity, only makes academe a still more promising environment for a contrarian.

Will Rogers

Political elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste.

Will Rogers

A politician is just like a pickpocket; it's almost impossible to get him to reform.

Will Rogers

We elect our Presidents, be they Republican or Democrat, then start daring 'em to make good.

Will Rogers

They are each good when they are out, and each bad when they are in.

Will Rogers

Politicians are dumb, but they can count to 50% plus one.

Will Rogers

Be a politician; no training necessary.

Will Rogers

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Will Rogers

I belong to no organized political body. I am a Democrat.

Will Rogers

You've got to be (an) optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one

Will Rogers

Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.

Wes Craven

But I made him the Deputy Secretary for Homeland Security because that added an element of political espionage.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

There is an element of delusional obsession in the French political elite's preoccupation with the notion that France is still a global power.

Ziggy Marley

Using political tools to change social conditions won't work.

Youssou N'Dour

I want to use my music to deliver a political message and sometimes to denounce, but I don't want to be a politician.

William Hazlitt

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

Wendell Phillips

Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.

Wendell Phillips

Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress.

Wendell Phillips

Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half.

Vladimir Lenin

The political form of a society wherein the proletariat is victorious in overthrowing the bourgeoisie will be a democratic republic.