Political Quotes

I thought I was really a radical, political person, which of course I am not.
Lena Dunham

Person, Thought, Radical

I am not a particularly political person, but, as a Tribeca resident, the commodification of September 11th is offensive to me.
Lena Dunham

Person, Offensive, September

But, you know, I'm sorry, I think democracy requires participation. I mean, I don't want to proselytize but I do feel some sort of duty to participate in the process in some way other than just blindly getting behind a political party.
John Cusack

Sorry, Mean, Democracy

If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage.
Katharine Graham

Knowledge, Far, Public

The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.
Gerald R. Ford

America, Again, Election

Because countries often have differing political and economic systems, agreements are needed to protect those invested in trade.
David Suzuki

Often, Economic, Needed

Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don't always reflect or act on that knowledge.
David Suzuki

Knowledge, Real, Act

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.
Daniel Webster

Greatest, Evils, Currency

What drew me to politics in the first place was the fact that I wanted to have a place to take a stand and use my voice to express what I believed in. But I've no longer got any political aspirations. I feel that as a politician, fifty per cent of people would hate you before you even left the house.
Jon Bon Jovi

Politics, Hate, Before

There's nothing in the First Amendment that even remotely talks about spending money for political contests, and to say that an individual can spend as much of his or her own money as he or she wants constitutionally without any limitation, I think is just absurd.
Arlen Specter

Money, Nothing, Her

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

Today, Someone, Public

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

Education, Nature, Knowledge

I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view.
Margaret Atwood

Off, Interested, View

I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement.
Jose Saramago

Social, Imagine, Outside

I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces.
Dan Rather

Great, Down, Pressure

From the streets of Cairo and the Arab Spring, to Occupy Wall Street, from the busy political calendar to the aftermath of the tsunami in Japan, social media was not only sharing the news but driving it.
Dan Rather

Busy, Spring, Social

Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people; it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Marriage, Romantic, Two

Well, I'm not a member of the permanent political establishment, and I've learned quickly these last few days that if you're not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a candidate unqualified for that reason alone.
Sarah Palin

Good, Alone, Learned

I'm entitled to my political opinions, and I get to vote because I'm an American.
David Mamet

Vote, American, Opinions

If you're writing an opinion piece, it's your job to write your opinion. If, on the other hand, you wrote a novel, as Virginia Woolf tells us, it would be inappropriate if you let your novel be influenced by your political opinions.
David Mamet

Job, Writing, Opinion

I look back on my liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder - as another exercise in self-involvement - rewarding myself for some superiority I could not logically describe.
David Mamet

Another, Liberal, Wonder

The so-called assault weapons ban is a hoax. It is a political appeal to the ignorant. The guns it supposedly banned have been illegal for 78 years. Did the ban make them 'more' illegal? The ban addresses only the appearance of weapons, not their operation.
David Mamet

Ignorant, Guns, Appearance

The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.
David Mamet

Peace, Power, Government

The prevailing ideology of the modern west - which is political economy - is in the doghouse. Having failed to notice atmospheric pollution, the economists then frightened themselves with the sort of financial crisis they said they had abolished.
James Buchan

Crisis, Said, Themselves

Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.
Daisaku Ikeda

History, Science, Humanity

A skillful playwright might have a good time with the story of the assassination of President William McKinley, and especially with the three most flamboyant political figures involved: Mark Hanna, Theodore Roosevelt, and Emma Goldman.
Russell Baker

Time, Good, Story

I use many different gadgets connected with computers; I use PCs, laptops and a Palm Pilot. I also use the Internet to visit websites, especially within Polish-language Internet. I usually go to political discussion groups and sites - of course, as I use my real name, people never believe that they are chatting with me!
Lech Walesa

Computers, Real, Different

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.
Susan Sontag

Fear, Real, Sense

And another thing is that I think as a church whenever we become politically driven, we alienate at least 50 percent of the people that God called us to reach with our political orientations.
T. D. Jakes

God, Become, Another

Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.
Mao Zedong

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