Political Quotes

We agreed that we cannot let personal political attacks get in the way of doing the very best we can for California's children.

Neither political party is clean when it comes to tactics that divide our people.

Well, Nigeria has played a constructive role in peacekeeping in various parts of West Africa. But unless and until Nigeria itself is democratic and respects human rights, it too may well be a source of much greater instability as political repression limits the ability of the people of Nigeria to achieve their full potential.

Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political system. It's a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination. That is the ultimate aim.

Once serious political dialogue has begun, the international community can assume that we have achieved genuine progress along the road to real democratisation.

The nature of our two main political parties has changed in the United States.

The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome natural equality; and this achievement is a gain, not only to Americans, but to the world and to civilization.

We've got to figure out a way to cause communities to also want them, the political, organized bodies.

The Americans provide still more advanced military assets and equipment; the Europeans are lagging behind. And eventually it will be difficult to co-operate even if you had the political will to co-operate because of the technological gap.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

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.