Political Quotes

Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.

I grew up in Sydney in a very political household, where we were all for the underdog.

Put three Zionists in a room and they will form four political parties.

And I remember looking at Gray Davis and, you know, Gray is the consummate political operative.

Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.

Grown-up politicians talk to each other across party lines. Over the last few weeks I have had lengthy conversations with Ed Miliband, David Miliband, with Tony Blair, with Peter Mandelson... talking about Europe, talking about political reform.

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

There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time.

What I've found is that there is a tremendous interest in these issues, across the political spectrum, sort of left-right terms we used to describe people don't really hold here exactly.

The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.

It's important to feel beautiful; it's political to feel beautiful.

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

I don't see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately right wing, and loyal to the political framework and its corporate interests.

Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.

South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections.

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.

When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist.

We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.

We felt that although they were patchy, there was a tremendous political energy in the Henry plays.

I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.

The US and the European Union needs to help in the translation of the demand for democracy into a political will.

There was never in my mind a desire to give in on the subject of freeing the political prisoners.

We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have to build political support for every step.

Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.

In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience.

It's too simplistic to advance the notion of the autonomy of art as a reason for turning away from the public. You can have autonomy and simultaneously have connections with the social and political world.

When I die, I don't want my demise to be used as a political rally, and that's what happened yesterday.

I am not political as a person.

What do you call a co-worker these days? Neither teammate nor confederate will do, and partner is too legalistic. The answer brought from academia to the political world by Henry Kissinger and now bandied in the boardroom is colleague. It has a nice upper-egalitarian feel, related to the good fellowship of collegial.

I don't think Fox News or Rush Limbaugh need Clinton it turns out. I think there's a hunger out there for - whether it's on the left or right - a more lively and provocative type of political journalism. I think Salon and Fox on the other side have both benefited from that.