Political Quotes

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.

Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.

I have never run for political office, but every night I am reaching out to millions of Americans on the radio and I am deeply concerned that the middle class of the United States is being sold out to multi-national corporations with a globalist agenda.

The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

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

I'm not a political thinker, but I've just always thought of myself as a Labour supporter. I was a great fan of Tony Blair. He sent me a letter before I swam the Channel to wish me luck.

I wouldn't characterize my work, however, as directly political.

It's a technical, fairly difficult job that has no particular political connotations, so I doubt there are any big campaign contributors dying to be on the Fed. And remember, it doesn't pay very well, certainly by Republican standards.

A generation ago, or two, when there were three channels, plus PBS, and when you needed - when you needed 15 million people to make a living, the media could focus on the broad country. And most people had no choice about getting political information. It was there at 6:30 whether you wanted it or not.

The United States Jewish population has made many vital contributions in all areas of our society in such ways as helping to develop the cultural, scientific, political and economic life of our country.

People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs people of self-esteem.

The electronic media introduced this idea to the larger audience very, very quickly. We spent years and years and years meeting with activists all over Europe to lay the groundwork for a political response, as we did here.

We have come to the edge of the abyss and now it is time for a bold step forward. There is a political view that the tougher you are, the more credible you are.

Through leadership of the fight against French colonialism, Ho Chi Minh had made a name for himself in the international political arena.

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.

'W.' is not necessarily a political film, but it was sort of a contrasting reality for me to get into George W. Bush as a character because of how I felt about his administration before I started making the film.

As long as the appointment process is transparent and there is a broad mix of political views among the governors of the BBC, I think the public can feel confident that impartiality and independence are just as important to me as they have been to previous incumbents.

Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.

I think that white women are more apt to read laterally. So I think there's some strong identification for women, and their political and social positions, and minorities. I think that the political power of, let's say, the average Indian man and a white woman are pretty equal.