Political Quotes - page 6

The most important political task facing the out-of-power party- the Democrats for now- is creating a villain to run against. It's certainly easier than developing some grand new ideas or policies on which to campaign. (Pat Sajak)
In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world. View quote
A. J. P. Taylor
Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred. View quote
Jacques Barzun
The backwardness of our religious and social developments is undoubtedly holding back the development of the intellectual and political levels. View quote
Carroll Quigley
Nowadays, you cannot be a very Effective political figure without Having a demonstrable sense of humor. People take to it. View quote
Robert Orben
I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols. View quote
Aldous Huxley
My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy. (Benjamin Disraeli)
The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty. View quote
John Maynard Keynes
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser. View quote
Albert Einstein
My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized. View quote
Albert Einstein
It is not a sensible or intelligent response for us in Europe to ridicule American arguments and parody their political leadership. View quote
Tony Blair
In a political sense, there is one problem that currently underlies all of the others. That problem is making Government sufficiently responsive to the people. If we don't make government responsive to the people, we don't make it believable. And we must make government believable if we are to have a functioning democracy. View quote
Gerald Ford
Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
As we peer into society's future, we -- you and I, and our government -- must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way. View quote
Neale Donald Walsch
Unions should not be lapdogs to a political party, they should be watchdogs for their members interests. View quote
Andy Stern
The only compensation, gained through the influence of nongovernmental organizations, consisted in slightly broadening for private individuals the possibility of access and appeal to the agencies enforcing the Covenant concerned with civil and political rights. (Rene Cassin)
Democracy in the sense of political equality and majority rule is by no means the most desirable, that is, optimal solution for all kinds of associations. View quote
Robert A. Dahl
Religious power, which, as I have already said, frequently identifies itself with political power, has always been a protagonist of this bitter struggle, even when it seemingly was neutral. View quote
Salvatore Quasimodo
It's too simplistic to advance the notion of the autonomy of art as a reason for turning away from the public. You can have autonomy and simultaneously have connections with the social and political world. View quote
Thom Mayne
There's a problem with political polling in that you have so much pressure to do what your client wants you to do and say what your client wants you to say. I've never felt that pressure. I am independent of the political parties. View quote
Frank Luntz