Political Quotes

A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.

I was considering running for political office.

The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.

I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s spirit - audacious and irreverent, yet passionately engaged and committed to social change.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.

Who, then, will govern? The answer must be, Man - for we have no angels in the shape of men, as yet, who are willing to take charge of our political affairs.

One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.

But no, I'm not political. My obligation is to pull the lever and elect somebody who's going to make life a little better for everybody, especially those who don't have as much good fortune as others.

Already, China has undermined U.S. foreign policy in efforts to gain access to oil resources in Iran and Sudan. We simply cannot separate the political and economic values of oil.

After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history.

My father was not a political animal.

The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.

And judging what is appropriate or not appropriate for a country, I think it is important in particular in judging what is the appropriate economic policy framework, one should take into account the overall political environment and the institutional framework within which economic policy operates.

In spite of our poverty and our economic dependence, we do not have to give in, neither because we are sometimes abandoned nor because of the wish of some nations to impose their economic or political models.

Even in political considerations, now-a-days, you have stronger motives to feel interested in the fate of Europe than in the fate of the Central or Southern parts of America.

In the political world, the only position I have is voter. I'm not a spokesman for anything.

Living in Washington, you can't take politics too seriously. I draw the line at honesty. I have no time for political hacks who say things they don't believe because they get paid to.

The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage.

I don't view myself as a political leftie. I view myself as a storyteller who is fair to both sides.

What we heard today was not fiscal leadership from our Commander-in-Chief, what we heard today was a political broadside from our Campaigner-in-Chief.

I've been through so many different political races.

We want to assert the very principle that truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.

Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.

Similarly, gender-equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparency are among the indispensable elements that are the imperatives of democratization.

Where there is a sufficient social movement of self-reliant communities, there can be political change. There must be political change.

Barack Obama is many things; among them, he is a tough and even ferocious political warrior.

I can tell you that too much money is corrupting American politics. Don't blame the American public. The U.S. Supreme Court has a lot to answer for, because it has made it impossible for Congress to reduce the corrupting influence of money on American political life.

I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research.

People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven't given much thought to the connections.