Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Camus

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.

Clint Eastwood

If somebody's dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they're gonna have to take what they get.

Danny Strong

I wouldn't say I'm a political junkie. I follow it. I read a few articles every day.

David Frum

Nobody ever won an election by spitting at his political opponents.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.

Don Rickles

Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that.

Claire McCaskill

The political system loves the extremes, it doesnt so much show a lot love for the moderates.

Dylan Moran

The American political machinery is awesome to behold in its scale and expense and waste and madness. It's the greatest circus on Earth I suppose.

E. B. White

Americans are willing to go to enormous trouble and expense defending their principles with arms, very little trouble and expense advocating them with words. Temperamentally we are ready to die for certain principles (or, in the case of overripe adults, send youngsters to die), but we show little inclination to advertise the reasons for dying.

Aneurin Bevan

The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

Aneurin Bevan

Listening to a speech by [Neville] Chamberlain is like paying a visit to Woolworth's, everything in its place and nothing above sixpence.

Aneurin Bevan

It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.

Aneurin Bevan

I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

Aneurin Bevan

Damn it all you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.

Anatole France

It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.

Chuck Klosterman

[On political correctness:] Any intended message mattered less than the received message, and every received message could be interpreted in whatever way the receiver wanted.

Christopher Morley

Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.

Angelina Jolie

We need the political will, and that often comes from the will of the people. So if celebrities or personalities can help to educate the people - not influence them, not tell them (what to do) - just tell them the truth about what's happening and let them form their own opinion, that will strengthen them and they will push their politicians.

Anna Lindh

We need a reform of the Security Council. It must be perceived as truly representative by all the 191 member states, to uphold the credibility and legitimacy of the UN as the main political arena.

Anna Deavere Smith

I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators 'the haute couture of language.'

Andrew Sullivan

How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?

Andrew Cuomo

Once you start saying, 'Let's talk political, my own politics, my own aspirations,' it can become not just distracting in that it takes time, but it can become confusing and frustrating, and is this now a political agenda or a governmental agenda.

Andrew Cuomo

Lesson from Pataki's success is: Use the political moment.

Ambrose Bierce

DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment.

Ambrose Bierce

PICKANINNY, n. The young of the "Procyanthropos", or "Americanus dominans". It is small, black and charged with political fatalities.

Ambrose Bierce

Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

Ambrose Bierce

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

Alphonse de Lamartine

France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.

Aesop

He collected audiences around him, and flourished and exhibited and harangued.

Aesop

Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.

Alex Gibney

What a terrible world it would be if we only did films that were poster boards for political causes.

E. O. Wilson

Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.

Drew Carey

I've got to say that I don't see myself as some sort of political type like Alec Baldwin or Barbra Streisand. I don't want to come across like that. I'd be embarrassed if that was the way I came across.