Political Quotes

No change in the balance of political parties can alter the general determination that no class should be excluded from contributing to and sharing responsibility for the state.

My political views have since I was a kid someway or another reflected the concerns of Tea Party movement.

Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole.

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.

The law requires a paper towel ad to be scrupulously honest, but allows political candidates to lie without reproach. What's wrong with this picture?

Candidate Obama was either exceptionally naive or willfully disingenuous when he vowed to change the way Washington works. The very promise of Hope and Change was rooted in uprooting the Washington modus operandi. But instead of rejecting it, he embraced it all - the secrecy, the closed doors, the political favors, the near-criminal negligence.

I don't have a political bone in my body.

Indeed, Miss Manners has come to believe that the basic political division in this country is not between liberals and conservatives but between those who believe that they should have a say in the love lives of strangers and those who do not.

I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views.

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.

I will always remember and we must all remember that Democrats are our political rivals, not our enemies, and they deserve our respect.

Our ability to effectively engage China and the Arab world rests on shared economic and political interests and mutual understanding.

When you put gas in your car you are making a political statement, because you are supporting the empires that control and continue the destruction of some countries.

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.

An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt.

With that radio I was always swimming with the current political streams in the West. I was never stranded.

A cult is a religion with no political power.

The point is, the political reporters are the ones who no longer understand the ritual they are covering. They keep searching for political meanings in the tepid events when a convention is now essentially a human drama and only that.

Unions should not be lapdogs to a political party, they should be watchdogs for their members' interests.

Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually ceased to be a Marxist, and a culture that was becoming more Marxist by the day.

Logic, sometimes has very little to do with political action.

Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana, because that is what we are talking about.

Believe me, the intellectual revolution is going on, and that has to come first before you see the political changes. That's where I'm very optimistic.

I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.

A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

Governors of both political parties face a stark choice between unpopular tax increases and drastic cuts in Medicaid, education, public safety and other essential services.

It's possible that the 2012 general-election race will be the least overtly religious one since 1972, the last campaign before Roe v. Wade and the rise of Jimmy Carter brought evangelicalism into the political mainstream. That's because faith remains a complicated issue for Obama, who is still wrongly thought to be a Muslim in some quarters.

So the same cultural and political issues that divided us in 1968 are still dividing us.

Americans are sick and tired of political gamesmanship.

Nobody ever won an election by spitting at his political opponents.