Political Quotes

You can't do anything that's not political in this time and age.

I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production.

Political debate with liberals is basically impossible in America today because liberals are calling names while conservatives are trying to make arguments.

The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.

You know as a scientist that both were developed completely independently of each other in the laboratories. And only afterward were the political situations contrived out of which they could be justified.

The rule of law should be upheld by all political parties. They should neither advise others to break the law, nor encourage others to do so even when they strongly disagree with the legislation put forward by the government of the day.

The absence of political personalities in the government will help rather than hinder a solid base of support for the government in parliament and in the political parties because it will remove one ground for disagreement.

In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties.

I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs.

Hatred is not contained in political thinking. Any hatred worked up against the public enemy is non-political, and always shows some weakness in the internal political situation.

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

Our arguments - and those of hundreds more Venezuelans suffering the same injustice - are clear and forceful: political disqualification violates laws in Venezuela and throughout the continent.

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution.

It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.

It is true that traditional Christianity is losing some of its appeal among Americans, but that is a religious, not political, matter. It is worth remembering that the Jeffersonian 'wall of separation' between church and state has always been intended to protect the church from the state as much as the state from the church.

In spite of our poverty and our economic dependence, we do not have to give in, neither because we are sometimes abandoned nor because of the wish of some nations to impose their economic or political models.

In France, that let down the barriers more than a hundred years ago, the feeling of antipathy is still strong enough to sustain an anti-Jewish political party.

There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action.

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.

Europe has a lot of strength. We need to pool that strength, and I am very much in favour of that - more of a deeper political union.

'American Dad' is, by its nature, much more political.

Now that I'm a political pundit, I have the ability to influence people.

Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.

On the contrary a film can promote the idea of change without any political message whatsoever but in its form and language can tell people that they can change their lives and contribute to progressive changes in the world.

Teaching was my transition from student life to working life. In those days, our system of education was a little different. The number of students in each class was huge. I think in political science general, which I taught, it was around 100.

Why, so soon as French Canadians, who are in a minority in this House and in the country, were to organise as a political party, they would compel the majority to organise as a political party, and the result must be disastrous to themselves.

I believe in Las Vegas. I think its best days are ahead of it. But I'm afraid to do anything in the current political environment in the United States.

If I were running to be somebody, there are a lot of easier sombodies to be. After all, running against the incumbent governor of your own party in your home state is not the next logical step in a political life.