Political Quotes

The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.

For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.

Our flag is not just one of many political points of view. Rather, the flag is a symbol of our national unity.

At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means.

No man should have a political office because he wants a job.

I think almost every political leader is always told that the next speech they make is the most crucial one.

I think you will see a lot of strains develop in the political process that will result in violence everywhere in the country - but it's controllable, it's workable and it will lead to a much better future for these people.

My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.

Individual rights always go along with the interests of the society. I want to add that in Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one is arrested or jailed for his or her speech or point of view. They are put in jail because they violated the law.

One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.

I feel the whole issue has been a witchhunt from day one as part of a broader Republican political agenda.

There is no private domain of a person's life that is not political, and there is no political issue that is not ultimately personal.

Political movements always belong to the young.

I have reaffirmed my political will to work towards national unity.

This gets back to the fundamental lesson of political survival that Bill Clinton taught me, which is if you make it about the American people's lives instead of your life, you're going to be okay.

What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists.

Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.

I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.

As Governor, I could think of only one way to unify our State that was made up of so many different climates, political beliefs and people, and that was our music.

It's impossible, I think, however much I'd become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don't think I'd ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.

I am an artist and a political being as well.

There was just this amazing individuality. It's just a whole different world of optimism and fearlessness, women taking off their bras and dancing around naked, and a political hopefulness and involvement.

This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no other.

Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.

As someone who's been covering presidential campaigns since the 1950s, I have no delusions about political reporting. Candidates bargaining access to get the kind of news coverage they want is nothing new.

I was raised on the values of speaking up and making a positive difference in a very political family that believed in the importance of public service.

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

I would hope to inspire in my listeners a feeling of freedom - of speech, thought and political activity.

I was doing political cartoons and getting angry to the point where I felt I was going to have to start making and throwing bombs. I thought I was probably a better cartoonist than a bomb maker.

Obama's view of the tax code is inherently political: Whom can we hit next? Energy companies, jet owners, bankers? Instead, the question should be how to promote economic efficiency by raising revenue without trying to manipulate corporate or personal behavior.