Political Quotes

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.

American agents... are the only persons authorized to hold councils of a political nature.

You are Americans. You love this country. Together we are entrusted with the principles that represent mankind's greatest political and social achievement.

My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility.

Certainly, the murder of civilians for political statement did not just begin on September 11, 2001.

In the past 20 years and more since China embarked on the road of reform and opening up, we have moved steadfastly to promote political restructuring and vigorously build democratic politics under socialism.

I use to watch like maybe three or four movies, five days out of the week. I was a movie buff, but I really didn't know what it was like behind the scenes, or the whole political process of it.

I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one.

I've been very fortunate to work for great people - so even when the political process gets ugly, I find inspiration in the people around me.

One of the special characteristics of New York is that it is different from a London or a Paris because it's the financial capital, and the cultural capital, but not the political capital.

I meet many people, I talk with them, like a TV show host. I show what's going on with Greenpeace, interesing political things, I have artists, musicians and bands.

For me, and maybe for many religious kids of the '60s, the church lost relevance the more it became a surrogate in the movement for social and political change.

One has to explain to people that the EU in this form is the answer both to 1945 and to the 21st century, in a dramatically altered world with new heavyweights, and that Germany benefits from the continued integration of Europe in political, economic and societal ways. And, of course, that means the Germans will have to pay.

A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.

I was considering running for political office.

The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.

I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s spirit - audacious and irreverent, yet passionately engaged and committed to social change.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.

Who, then, will govern? The answer must be, Man - for we have no angels in the shape of men, as yet, who are willing to take charge of our political affairs.

One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.

But no, I'm not political. My obligation is to pull the lever and elect somebody who's going to make life a little better for everybody, especially those who don't have as much good fortune as others.

Already, China has undermined U.S. foreign policy in efforts to gain access to oil resources in Iran and Sudan. We simply cannot separate the political and economic values of oil.

After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history.