Political Quotes

It became evident to me that there was a very serious political element at work. I know that the term impeachment was bandied about. I do not believe, however, that the word was used with the ferocity it was more recently or that it was in the Nixon years.

Here in Cameroon, football is our leading political party. It's football alone that that unites us, it's football alone that brings us good things - football is the window into our country - so we don't mess around with it.

Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

We're not a political band. We don't want to tell people what to do or what to think. We just want to tell them to think.

The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language that we use about politics, it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties.

We could have a political movement going if it had been properly organized but the Monarchy's done itself enormous damage possibly beyond the point of long-term recovery.

Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political - legislative and administrative - decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself.

For longer than I've been involved in the political process, the Republican establishment has claimed to want to provide an alternative for the black community, yet party elite refuse to show up for the game.

We all know that in war the political and military factors have to complement each other.

So was it a political mistake for Obama to put so many eggs in the health-care-reform basket? Well, a negative decision from the Supreme Court will certainly make it appear so.

You don't have to be a political genius to sniff the smell of blood in the water.

Long Island is shaped the way it is largely because of Robert Moses. Long Island is a perfect example of how political power shapes people's lives every day.

There are no doubts that, the situation in the country today, indicates that there is much more work to do in the process of reforming the political economy and improving the quality of life of our people and communities.

In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.

Judges must be free from political intervention or intimidation.

We are on the lookout for criminal and terrorist activity but we do not - nor will we ever - monitor ideology or political beliefs. We take seriously our responsibility to protect the civil rights and liberties of the American people, including subjecting our activities to rigorous oversight from numerous internal and external sources.

Iran's continued, widespread persecution of ethnic minorities, human rights defenders and political prisoners is a disgrace and stands as a shameful indictment of Iran's leaders.

America is a country ready to be taken, in fact, longing to be taken by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.

Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.

I'm usually put off by performers when they get political.

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.

Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.

What I see as the greatest threat to America is that the American people will put political pressure on their leaders to pull out of Iraq before we should.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

Dialogue is the basis of Indian culture, and we don't want to make any enemies. Political and ideological adversaries, perhaps, but not enemies.

The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong for us to pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men.

And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups.

Most politicians - those people who live, eat and breathe politics - like to sit around and talk about politics and tell political war stories. Reagan didn't do that. His war stories were movie war stories and Hollywood war stories. He loved that.

Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions.