Political Quotes

I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.'

~ Ralph Nader

Being political is an integral part of being Iranian. Our lives are defined by politics.

~ Shirin Neshat

In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.

~ Narendra Modi

I don't like politics. I am not aligned to any political party. I have friends in all political parties.

~ Gautam Adani

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.

~ Frank Luntz

All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.

~ Thomas Sowell

You can't talk about life without talking about politics. You have to have both. If you're just a political person, you're going to burn out. If you, as an artist, are just focused inward, you're going to eventually be irrelevant.

~ Robert Adams

I'm not involved in politics, and I've never had any political role. I've never been in office. I've never taken any public administrative jobs.

~ Isabel Dos Santos

When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of political authority.

~ Michael Ignatieff

Every policy is shaped by two forces: background analysis and foreground politics. The political forces are loud, self-serving and, in the case of energy policy, well known.

~ Donella Meadows

I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.

~ Dan Quayle

The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.

~ Lysander Spooner

All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.

~ August Wilson

I've been offered political shows before, and I don't know anything about politics and I feel uncomfortable making political opinions - there's consequences to them. I often think I'm wrong, so I really don't like getting in political or religious discussions because of the giant possibility that I might be wrong.

~ Norm Macdonald

'The Means' is about power. I have access to political insiders who helped me write a portrait of the real day-to-day in politics, which turned out to be crazier than Wall Street.

~ Douglas Brunt

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.

~ Stephen Leacock

The Tea Party represents stakeholders in the American system; people who were never involved in politics or thought they had to be, yet realized that political corruption and incompetence threatened not only their families, but the future of the nation itself.

~ Tammy Bruce

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

~ Abba Eban

After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.

~ George C. Wallace

To all my political opponents, all and sundry, not only the presidential bets, I would like to offer my hand to friendship.

~ Rodrigo Duterte

The sad fact is that actual artistic oppression - book banning in its many modern forms - is a matter of course in the entertainment industry, especially when the underlying product is declared politically incorrect or runs contrary to the interests of Hollywood's political altar, the Democratic Party.

~ Andrew Breitbart

Nixon has enough to overcome in terms of his legacy and his political history. Now he has to overcome the in-fighting between his daughters. It's so sad. There's another obstacle for him to clear.

~ Monica Crowley

I look at my people, and I look at those who control them - the political elite. And the sad thing is that the elites are just not interested in the welfare of the people.

~ Youssou N'dour

I think the best thing about my short-lived political career was that I saw the interiors of Bihar and UP. That is the real India, and, being an Indian, it was really sad to see our own people living in such dismal conditions. It was a real eye-opener.

~ Sanjay Dutt

Technology is going to revolutionize almost every sector, leading to the demise of many traditional professions. Economic and political power will be determined less by a country's size than by its technological superiority.

~ Klaus Schwab

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

~ George Washington

If our political leaders are to be always a lot of political merchants, they will supply any demand we may create. All we have to do is to establish a steady demand for good government.

~ Lincoln Steffens

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

~ Harry S Truman

No matter where you stand politically - even if you're unsure of what your political ideology is - it is important to take part in the process of shaping our government.

~ Brad Henry

Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.

~ Milton Friedman

Tobacco companies are legally operating entities in Australia. If the Government thinks that they should not make donations to political parties, well then they should ban them operating as legally structured entities in Australia.

~ Julie Bishop

I think the way things have been left after Iraq is that people won't believe the Government of the day, so they have to know that lessons have been learnt and that all political parties and people, whether they were for or against the invasion of Iraq, have learnt lessons.

~ William Hague

Conservatives believe in smaller government and in the power of the electorate. So I think that we're less likely to try to use a dramatic forum to warp people's political views.

~ David Mamet

Too often, Indian tribes are at the mercy of the shifting political winds of State government.

~ Jim Costa

'Dating Game' wasn't social commentary, political analysis, Shakespearean-level drama or even blunt-force comedy. It was just the televised equivalent of meeting someone at a bar. But it appealed to our most basic Darwinian instinct: selecting a good mate. You can't go wrong when a show's premise is hard-wired into human DNA.

~ Seth Shostak

I have a distinct memory, dating back to 1989 or so, of sitting around with my college dorm mates talking about a new term that was popping up everywhere: 'political correctness.'

~ Meghan Daum

The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.

~ Paul Wellstone

I want to be an advocate for the people who don't have time to read the newspaper... or the money to make a political contribution.

~ Richard J. Codey

Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.

~ Horace Mann

Education can also be used as a soft power and as a soft force to transform societies. When I say transform societies it means we can tackle issues in political, social, cultural, economic areas. These are the most important things.

~ Moza Bint Nasser