Political Quotes - page 8

When people say 'let's do something about it', they mean 'let's get hold of the political machinery so that we can do something to somebody else.' And that somebody is invariably you. (Frank Chodorov)
All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates. View quote
Frank Chodorov
From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power - a power increasingly based upon the strength of money and those material things money can purchase. View quote
Alex Campbell
Being born, especially being born a person of color, is a political act in itself. View quote
Andres Serrano
I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion. View quote
Andrew Greeley
But the issue of sexual harassment is not the end of it. There are other issues - political issues, gender issues - that people need to be educated about. View quote
Anita Hill
I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it. View quote
Bianca Jagger
I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early '70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire. View quote
David Zucker
In historical and constitutional terms, the recent political status vote in Puerto Rico was a necessary but obviously not decisive step on the road of self-determination leading to full self-government. View quote
Dick Thornburgh
ALEC is one great organization, I think, for growing future political leaders. View quote
Don Nickles
The U.S. views Morocco as an important friend, and we applaud your political and economic reforms that culminated with the recent parliamentary elections that were widely reported to have been conducted in a fair and open manner. (Donald Evans)
Illegality will never solve the problem of political lawlessness. View quote
Emanuel Celler
I don't want to be disrespectful of the president of the United States, but as a political person, one of the things I appreciated about this president, in the past year especially, is he is a fantastic candidate. View quote
Ed Gillespie
The last eight years have created a lot of deep-seated hostility. People take political decisions very personally, and today there is a constant, ongoing attack, with one side or the other being maligned. View quote
Fred F. Fielding
Look at what the Omar of Qatar is doing, for example - the King of Morocco, Jordan, Bahrain. There are reform movements taking place, efforts to broaden the political participation of the populations of the region. View quote
Frank Carlucci
Look at the number of cop shows and lawyer shows and forensics shows... I think there could be room for two quite different examinations of the same political office. View quote
Geena Davis
The interest which lay behind Federalism was that of well-to-do citizens in a stable political and social order, and this interest aroused them to favor and to seek some form of political organization which was capable of protecting their property and promoting its interest. View quote
Herbert Croly
The combination of Federalism and Republicanism which formed the substance of the system, did not constitute a progressive and formative political principle, but it pointed in the direction of a constructive formula. View quote
Herbert Croly
As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry. View quote
Kenneth Koch
Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could. View quote
Lord Mountbatten
When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power. (Maggie Gallagher)
Our ability to effectively engage China and the Arab world rests on shared economic and political interests and mutual understanding. View quote
Rick Larsen
But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating. View quote
Robert McChesney
The nature of our two main political parties has changed in the United States. View quote
Roger Mahony
John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university. View quote
Russell Banks