Top Political Quotes Collection - Page 3

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Image of Richard Burr
The best way to reduce emissions and pollution is not through partisan political theater but through developing consensus on areas that will bring about effectual change.
- Richard Burr
Collection: Political
Image of Robert Higgs
Once a bureau is created, its staff becomes a tenacious political interest group, well placed to defend its budget and to make a case for expanding its activities.
- Robert Higgs
Collection: Political
Image of Daniel J. Mitchell
Politicians generally do the right thing only when all other options are exhausted.
- Daniel J. Mitchell
Collection: Political
Image of Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
There are no small steps in great affairs.
- Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
Collection: Political
Image of Dick Morris
The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television.
- Dick Morris
Collection: Political
Image of Dick Morris
The greater informational levels of the voters, their decreasing inhibitions in expressing disagreement, and their greater preference for Jeffersonian direct involvement, all make the need for a 'permanent campaign' to sell a president's policies all the more crucial.
- Dick Morris
Collection: Political
Image of Dick Morris
Take whatever position you want, but do take a position, because once you do, ample money awaits you on either side.
- Dick Morris
Collection: Political
Image of Dick Morris
Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side, one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say.
- Dick Morris
Collection: Political
Image of Adolf Eichmann
My political sentiments inclined toward the left and emphasized the socialist aspects every bit as much as nationalist ones.
- Adolf Eichmann
Collection: Political
Image of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
It is the intense spirituality of India, and not any great political structure or social organisation that it has developed, that has enabled it to resist the ravages of time and the accidents of history.
- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Collection: Political
Image of Allan A. Lamport
If somebody's gonna stab me in the back, I wanna be there.
- Allan A. Lamport
Collection: Political
Image of Gaylord Nelson
It was truly an astonishing grassroots explosion, ... The objective was to get a nationwide demonstration of concern for the environment so large that it would shake the political establishment out of its lethargy.
- Gaylord Nelson
Collection: Political
Image of Bernard Crick
The plain truth is that what holds a free state together is neither general will nor a common interest, but simply politics itself.
- Bernard Crick
Collection: Political
Image of Bernard Crick
The political process is not tied to any particular doctrine. Genuine political doctrines, rather, are the attempt to find particular and workable solutions to this perpetual and shifty problem of conciliation.
- Bernard Crick
Collection: Political
Image of Alasdair MacIntyre
A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and revolutionaries who revive old doctrines, while their conservative and reactionary opponents are the inventors of new ones.
- Alasdair MacIntyre
Collection: Political
Image of Armando Iannucci
It almost seems like anyone who doesn't seem political in any way is at an advantage. It's almost like anti-politics. A stage where anyone who acts - and it is an act - as if they have nothing to do with the way that daily politics works is lauded as some kind of superstar human being.
- Armando Iannucci
Collection: Political
Image of Jonathan Rauch
If every negotiation is conducted in public, then the minute one person says, well, what if we try this, next thing you know, the interest groups have piled all in, and the political opponents have shot it to pieces.
- Jonathan Rauch
Collection: Political
Image of Murray Kempton
A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.
- Murray Kempton
Collection: Political
Image of Harold Rosenberg
The big moment came when it was decided to paint...Just To Paint. The gesture on the canvas was a gesture of liberation, from Value- political, aesthetic, moral.
- Harold Rosenberg
Collection: Political
Image of Russell B. Long
There are but three political-economic roads from which we can choose... We could take the first course and further exacerbate the already concentrated ownership of productive capital in the American economy. Or we could join the rest of the world by taking the second path, that of nationalization. Or we can take the third road, establishing policies to diffuse capital ownership broadly, so that many individuals, particularly workers, can participate as owners of industrial capital. The choice is ours.
- Russell B. Long
Collection: Political
Image of Joseph Nye
Money and donations are an important part of our political system. They are hard power.
- Joseph Nye
Collection: Political
Image of Donald J. Boudreaux
Politicians will pander to special-interest groups eager to gain at the public expense.
- Donald J. Boudreaux
Collection: Political
Image of Cleve Jones
When you lose the gayborhoods, you lose the political power that comes when you're concentrated in precincts, and you also lose the cultural vitality.
- Cleve Jones
Collection: Political
Image of Chanakya
Till the enemy's weakness is known , he should be kept on friendly terms.
- Chanakya
Collection: Political
Image of Jeffrey Rosen
[Louis] Brandeis had a very distinctive vision of political economy that he persuaded Woodrow Wilson to adopt in the 1912 election and that he largely enacted from the bench.
- Jeffrey Rosen
Collection: Political
Image of Rosalynn Carter
I had already learned from more than a decade of political life that I was going to be criticized no matter what I did, so I might as well be criticized for something I wanted to do.
- Rosalynn Carter
Collection: Political
Image of David Souter
It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it.
- David Souter
Collection: Political
Image of David Souter
It is impossible, maybe undesirable, to take partisanship out of the political process.
- David Souter
Collection: Political
Image of Robin Lane Fox
Alexander was not the first Greek to be honoured as a god for political favour.
- Robin Lane Fox
Collection: Political
Image of Gunnar Myrdal
Generally speaking, the less privileged groups in democratic society, as they become aware of their interests and their political power, will be found to press for ever more state intervention in practically all fields.
- Gunnar Myrdal
Collection: Political
Image of Lars-Erik Nelson
The enemy isn't conservatism. The enemy isn't liberalism. The enemy is bulls**t.
- Lars-Erik Nelson
Collection: Political
Image of Jeff Flake
This Congress is out of control and in desperate need of adult supervision.
- Jeff Flake
Collection: Political
Image of Alastair Campbell
The junk food of political journalism...all reshuffle stories are crap.
- Alastair Campbell
Collection: Political
Image of Clement Attlee
Why does Mosley always speak as though he were a feudal landlord abusing tenants who are in arrears with their rent ?
- Clement Attlee
Collection: Political
Image of Clement Attlee
The press lives on disaster.
- Clement Attlee
Collection: Political
Image of Jerry Pournelle
Unrestricted laissez faire capitalism allocates resources in a most efficient way to satisfy human wants without regard to the rationality or morality of those desires.
- Jerry Pournelle
Collection: Political
Image of Joan Wallach Scott
All of my work in some way or another speaks to political issues according to the upbringing that I had, which was deeply rooted in principles.
- Joan Wallach Scott
Collection: Political
Image of Marshall Fritz
The Left/Right scale is a misleading way of comparing political systems. It doesn't measure anything.
- Marshall Fritz
Collection: Political
Image of Melvin Van Peebles
Hollywood desires money but they could not stand the political content.
- Melvin Van Peebles
Collection: Political
Image of Peter Wilson
Those who claim absolutism is merely a myth are right that it has been misused simply as a byword for political centralisation.
- Peter Wilson
Collection: Political
Image of Frank Chodorov
Perhaps the removal of trade restrictions throughout the world would do more for the cause of universal peace than can any political union of peoples separated by trade barriers.
- Frank Chodorov
Collection: Political
Image of Jens Stoltenberg
The Norwegian response to violence is more democracy, more openness and greater political participation.
- Jens Stoltenberg
Collection: Political
Image of Mike Cloud
The problem isn't the abuse of power; it's the power to abuse.
- Mike Cloud
Collection: Political
Image of Mike Cloud
Politicians are masters of sounding like they agree with you.
- Mike Cloud
Collection: Political
Image of Caleb Carr
The definition of terrorism is killing civilians with the intent of changing their political affiliation.
- Caleb Carr
Collection: Political
Image of Dalton Camp
Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.
- Dalton Camp
Collection: Political
Image of Henry Hyde
There are so many women on the floor of Congress, it looks like a mall
- Henry Hyde
Collection: Political
Image of Douglas J. Futuyma
In the broadest sense, evolution is merely change, and so is all-pervasive; galaxies, languages, and political systems all evolve. Biological evolution ... is change in the properties of populations of organisms that transcend the lifetime of a single individual.
- Douglas J. Futuyma
Collection: Political
Image of Henry Clay
The measure of the wealth of a nation is indicated by the measure of its protection of its industry; the measure of the poverty of a nation is marked by the degree in which it neglects and abandons the care of its own industry, leaving it exposed to the action of foreign powers.
- Henry Clay
Collection: Political