Top Political Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Political quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Tracey Ullman
I'm usually put off by performers when they get political
- Tracey Ullman
Collection: Political
Image of Philip Gourevitch
The piled-up dead of political violence are a generic staple of our information diet these days, and according to the generic report all massacres are created equal: the dead are innocent, the killers monstrous, the surrounding politics insane or nonexistent...The anonymous dead and their anonymous killers become their own context. The horror becomes absurd.
- Philip Gourevitch
Collection: Political
Image of John Derbyshire
Politics, as any observer of the modern world knows, is the enemy of economics, everywhere and always.
- John Derbyshire
Collection: Political
Image of John Derbyshire
Biophobia is as much a part of a politician's basic equipment as a sharp suit.
- John Derbyshire
Collection: Political
Image of John Waters
My films can be considered political action against the tyranny of good taste.
- John Waters
Collection: Political
Image of Henny Youngman
I'm offended by political jokes. Too often they get elected.
- Henny Youngman
Collection: Political
Image of Mark Russell
The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
- Mark Russell
Collection: Political
Image of Laurence J. Peter
Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.
- Laurence J. Peter
Collection: Political
Image of Kenneth R. Miller
The American creationist movement has entirely bypassed the scientific forum and has concentrated instead on political lobbying and on taking its case to a fair-minded electorate... The reason for this strategy is overwhelmingly apparent: no scientific case can be made for the theories they advance.
- Kenneth R. Miller
Collection: Political
Image of Robert Peel
I have read all that has been written by the gravest authorities on political economy on the subject of rent, wages, taxes, tithes.
- Robert Peel
Collection: Political
Image of Harry Dean Stanton
I've always been a searcher, you know, a hunter. I'm certainly not the only one. They say actors shouldn't get political and everything, but you can't separate yourself. You can't disconnect yourself from anything.
- Harry Dean Stanton
Collection: Political
Image of David Petraeus
Political progress will only take place if sufficient security exists.
- David Petraeus
Collection: Political
Image of Stanley Hauerwas
Another hallmark of Christianity is that salvation is not individualistic-it's not something one person receives for himself or herself. Salvation is the reign of God. It is a political alternative to the way the world is constituted. That's a very important part of the story that has been lost to accounts of salvation that are centered in the individual. But without an understanding that salvation is the reign of God, the need for the church to mediate salvation makes no sense at all.
- Stanley Hauerwas
Collection: Political
Image of Andrew Young
Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got
- Andrew Young
Collection: Political
Image of Rick Perry
We're at the end of an era of failed leadership. We have been led by a divider [Barack Obama] who has sliced and diced the electorate, pitting American against American for political purposes.
- Rick Perry
Collection: Political
Image of K.J. Parker
In politics, it's what isn't said that matters.
- K.J. Parker
Collection: Political
Image of Jane Bryant Quinn
Where you stand should not depend on where you sit.
- Jane Bryant Quinn
Collection: Political
Image of Michael Parenti
When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed.
- Michael Parenti
Collection: Political
Image of Michael Parenti
You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when you stray that you feel the restraining tug.
- Michael Parenti
Collection: Political
Image of Arundhati Roy
The trouble is that once you see it, you can't unsee it. And once you've seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out. There's no innocence. Either way, you're accountable.
- Arundhati Roy
Collection: Political
Image of William J. Brennan
After each perceived security crisis ended, the United States has remorsefully realized that the abrogation of civil liberties was unnecessary.
- William J. Brennan
Collection: Political
Image of Tacitus
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges.
- Tacitus
Collection: Political
Image of Tacitus
Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
- Tacitus
Collection: Political
Image of N.K. Jemisin
We can never be gods, after all--but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.
- N.K. Jemisin
Collection: Political
Image of Larry Niven
There is no cause so good or noble that it will not attract fuggheads; and the fuggheads will get all the press.
- Larry Niven
Collection: Political
Image of Frederic Bastiat
When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages what is useful, applauds falsehood and smothers truth under indifference or insult, a nation turns its back on progress and can be restored only by the terrible lessons of catastrophe.
- Frederic Bastiat
Collection: Political
Image of Al Yankovic
If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.
- Al Yankovic
Collection: Political
Image of Jeffrey Sachs
Extreme poverty is the best breeding ground on earth for disease, political instability, and terrorism.
- Jeffrey Sachs
Collection: Political
Image of Bill O'Reilly
There is a point where political correctness becomes an acid that erodes freedom.
- Bill O'Reilly
Collection: Political
Image of Barbara Mertz
Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.
- Barbara Mertz
Collection: Political
Image of Margaret Thatcher
It is not the business of politicians to please everyone.
- Margaret Thatcher
Collection: Political
Image of Aneurin Bevan
Damn it all you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.
- Aneurin Bevan
Collection: Political
Image of Gustavo GutiƩrrez
The God of Exodus is the God of history and of political liberation more than he is the God of nature.
- Gustavo GutiƩrrez
Collection: Political
Image of James Bovard
The first step in saving our liberty is to realize how much we have already lost, how we lost it, and how we will continue to lose it unless fundamental political changes occur.
- James Bovard
Collection: Political
Image of James Bovard
Dependency is the highest political good - at least for politicians. Since the 1930s, politicians have striven to leave no vote unbought.
- James Bovard
Collection: Political
Image of Jon Stewart
I don't approve of political jokes; I have seen too many of them get elected.
- Jon Stewart
Collection: Political
Image of Harry S. Truman
Term limits would cure both senility and seniority- both terrible legislative diseases.
- Harry S. Truman
Collection: Political
Image of Garry Trudeau
Anyone dumb enough to get his political information from a comic strip deserves what he gets at the polls.
- Garry Trudeau
Collection: Political
Image of William E. Simon
The nation ought to have a tax system which looks like someone designed it on purpose.
- William E. Simon
Collection: Political
Image of Carl Schmitt
The specific political distinction to which political actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy.
- Carl Schmitt
Collection: Political
Image of Carl Schmitt
A world state which which embraces the entire globe and all of humanity cannot exist. The political world is a pluriverse, not a universe.
- Carl Schmitt
Collection: Political
Image of Tom G. Palmer
Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions.
- Tom G. Palmer
Collection: Political
Image of Tim Pawlenty
You can stick a fork in Barack Obama. Politically, he's done. The main way we can screw this up is if we choose the wrong Republican.
- Tim Pawlenty
Collection: Political
Image of Goldwin Smith
Ottawa - a sub-arctic lumber-village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit.
- Goldwin Smith
Collection: Political
Image of George P. Shultz
If they are too big to fail, make them smaller.
- George P. Shultz
Collection: Political
Image of Thomas Reed
They could do worse, and they undoubtedly will.
- Thomas Reed
Collection: Political
Image of Thomas Reed
Politics is mostly pill-taking.
- Thomas Reed
Collection: Political
Image of Glenn Greenwald
History shows that the mere existence of a mass surveillance apparatus, regardless of how it is used, is in itself sufficient to stifle dissent. A citizenry that is aware of always being watched quickly becomes a compliant and fearful one.
- Glenn Greenwald
Collection: Political
Image of Glenn Greenwald
When someone who wields political power does something you dislike or disagree with, it's incumbent upon you to object, criticize, and demand a different course. Those who refuse to do so are abdicating the most basic duty of citizenship and rendering themselves impotent.
- Glenn Greenwald
Collection: Political
Image of Mark Waid
A superhero is someone who, at some point or in some way, inspires hope or is the enemy of cynicism. Even if you bog it down with political allegory, or even if you're doing celebrity allegory. You still need to take the cynical out of it.
- Mark Waid
Collection: Political