Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Hughes

Nevertheless, what was made in the hope of transforming the world need not be rejected because it failed to do so – otherwise, one would also have to throw out a good deal of the greatest painting and poetry of the nineteenth century. An objective political failure can still work as a model of intellectual affirmation or dissent.

Robertson Davies

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

Robert Peel

I have read all that has been written by the gravest authorities on political economy on the subject of rent, wages, taxes, tithes.

Robert Louis Stevenson

We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.

Saul Alinsky

Radicals must be resilient, adaptable to shifting political circumstances, and sensitive enough to the process of action and reaction to avoid being trapped by their own tactics and forced to travel a road not of their choosing.

Tom Hayden

We're looking at a quandary here where Bernie's [Sanders] the winner on a moral and even a political basis. He's made history, and she's the winner on the mathematical basis.

Tom Hanks

The average movie set is the least political arena on Earth. Nobody bothers talking about politics because, one, we all love the job so much. You don't talk about current events. You talk about old show business stories and whether or not there's gonna be French onion dip at the craft services table that day.

Tom Coburn

The longer a politician bears power, the more he is controlled by that power.

Tom Coburn

We can achieve much greater representation through term-limited members.

Tom Coburn

When I came to Washington, I was troubled to observe so many similarities between the behaviors of drug-addicted patients and my political colleagues. In Washington power is like morphine.

Tim Dorsey

Our political process appears to be a toxic dance of mutually assured destruction that takes all the citizens down with you, and that can't be right. So I've prepared a little experiment.

Samuel Adams

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

Sal Albanese

It's an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest actually working on political campaigns.

S. I. Hayakawa

The language we share is at the core of our identity as citizens, and our ticket to full participation in American political life. We can speak any language we want at the dinner table, but English is the language of public discourse, or the marketplace and of the voting booth.

Russell M. Nelson

Throughout the world, the family is increasingly under attack. If families fail, many of our political, economic, and social systems will also fail.

Russell M. Nelson

The temptation to be popular may prioritize public opinion above the word of God. Political campaigns and marketing strategies widely employ public opinion polls to shape their plans. Results of those polls are informative. But they could hardly be used as grounds to justify disobedience to God’s commandments!

Romano Prodi

Are we all clear that we want to build something that can aspire to be a world power - not just a trading bloc, but a political entity?

Ron Paul

Only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions.

Ron Paul

Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions, i.e. support the free market, individual liberty and the end of welfare and affirmative action.

Ron Paul

Each of us should choose which course of action we must take; education, conventional political action, or even peaceful civil disobedience to bring about necessary changes, but let it not be said that we did nothing.

Sam Rayburn

I like power and I like to use it.

Thomas A. Edison

I consider Paine our greatest political thinker. As we have not advanced, and perhaps never shall advance, beyond the Declaration and Constitution, so Paine has had no successors who extended his principles.

Simon Bolivar

Republican democracy is overperfect and demands political virtues and talents far superior to our own.

Simon Cameron

An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Sidney Hook

Noam Chomsky skittles and skithers all over the political landscape to distract the reader’s attention from the plain truth.

Sidney Hillman

Politics is the science of who gets what, when, and why.

Taki Theodoracopulos

I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language.

Tony Blankley

I've always found that avoiding insanity is useful in life - which in American politics sometimes puts one in the minority.

Tony Blankley

A Diogenesian search for an honest person would rarely lead to the author of a memoir.

Thomas Malthus

It has been said, and perhaps with truth, that the conclusions of Political Economy partake more of the certainty of the stricter sciences than those of most of the other branches of human knowledge.

Thomas Merton

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

Thomas Merton

By my monastic life and vows I am saying no to all the concentration camps, the aerial bombardments, the staged political trials, the judicial murders, the racial injustices, the economic tyrannies, and the whole socioeconomic apparatus which seems geared for nothing but global destruction in spite of all its fair words in favor of peace.

Thomas Carlyle

Coining "Dismal Science" as a nickname for Political Economy