History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.
Milton Friedman

Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.
Milton Friedman

There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.
Alexis de Tocqueville

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.
Harry S. Truman

It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.
Harry S. Truman

Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left. It's totally dishonest.
David Ogilvy

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

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.
George Bernard Shaw

Political courage is not political suicide.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
Woodrow Wilson

The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.
Woodrow Wilson

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.
Woodrow Wilson

No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
Vladimir Lenin

To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
Calvin Coolidge

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.
Margaret Thatcher

All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
Indira Gandhi

My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.
Indira Gandhi

During a political campaign everyone is concerned with what a candidate will do on this or that question if he is elected except the candidate; he's too busy wondering what he'll do if he isn't elected.
Everett Dirksen

It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
Lyndon B. Johnson