Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Eno

All music has political dimensions because it suggests a way of being.

Bobby Seale

To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.

Billy Bragg

My theory is this; I'm not a political songwriter. I'm an honest songwriter.

Billy Bragg

All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations.

Billy Bragg

I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all.

Billy Connolly

Don't vote, it only encourages them.

Boris Yeltsin

We want peace and a political solution to the situation in Chechnya

Jane Goodall

Chimpanzees can be quite political.

Dennis Prager

In a lifetime of observing and participating in political debate, I have seen a lot of meanness.

Deng Xiaoping

To get rich is glorious.

Arthur Henderson

One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of the world.

Arlen Specter

It's a rarity when someone takes a political risk in Washington today in the public interest.

Arlen Specter

Big money is ruining the political system.

Barbara Ehrenreich

The nation was not founded by habitual groupthinkers. But it stands a fair chance of being destroyed by them.

A politician is like quicksilver: if you try to put your finger on him, you find nothing under it.

Boss Tweed

The way to have power is to take it.

Barbara Kruger

If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.

This question will be resolved at a political level.

Bashar al-Assad

Whether you call it terrorism or resistance, and whether you like Hamas or not, it is a political entity that no one can ignore.

Bashar al-Assad

The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy.

Barbara Mertz

Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.

Augusto Pinochet

We have no political prisons. We have political internal exiles.

Arthur Miller

A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence.

Ayrton Senna

It's important that the drivers stay together, because in difficult moments we have each other. If we are not together the financial and political interests of the organisers and constructors come to the fore.

Yes, it was taken as a political visit.

Eddie Redmayne

They're such hierarchical things, film sets, they're sort of mini societies. Often they're incredibly political places.

Aristotle

. . . Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

Ben Hecht

Socially, a journalist ranks somewhere between the madam of a whorehouse and a bartender. but spiritually he ranks with Galileo, for he knows the world is round.

Elizabeth Emken

I don't care what the political establishment says, Republican, Democrat - I'm a problem solver.

Elizabeth Edwards

Everybody makes personal decisions that are right for them and if you're in political life, you're used to having those analyzed.

Eliot Spitzer

The Republican argument that raising the debt ceiling encourages additional future spending is logically irresponsible. The debt ceiling has to be raised to authorize spending already approved by Congress. Despite that fallacy, the GOP has been able to score political points with its argument.

Abdul Kalam

What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.

We need to be a voice that's not tied to any political interest.