Political Quotes

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

~ Barbara Jordan

We need to save the education system. We need to remove education from the framework of the political parties that rule in the State of Israel. We need to increase the allocation of long-term national resources to education and never touch them - no matter what.

~ Aaron Ciechanover

Everything from who sits on your local board of education to the prosecutors and judicial appointments in your area and much more are all impacted by who holds political office.

~ Al Sharpton

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.

~ Woodrow Wilson

Our political machine, composed of thirteen independent sovereignties, have been perpetually operating against each other and against the federal head ever since the peace.

~ Henry Knox

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.

~ Adlai E. Stevenson

We would fight not for the political future of a distant city, rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and security for the peoples of the earth.

~ Neville Chamberlain

The years of the economic depression have been years of political reaction, and that is why the economic crisis has generated a world peace crisis.

~ Arthur Henderson

A sign that a peace association is going adrift is its exclusion of other political parties, with whom it could collaborate effectively on most of the problems besetting the cause of peace.

~ Fredrik Bajer

Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.

~ Tom Lehrer

Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize.

~ Tom Lehrer

We need peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region. It is important to have political and security stability to build up our economic growth.

~ Joko Widodo

My political awakening, if I can be as grand as to call it that, was all about what was happening around me. It wasn't some romantic, patriotic vision of Scotland going back to what it had been 300 years previously.

~ Nicola Sturgeon

I wanted to tell a romantic and dark side of Ottoman history that was also slightly political, saying to the previous generation of writers, 'Look, I'm interested in Ottoman things, and I'm not afraid of it, and I'm doing something creative.'

~ Orhan Pamuk

I have no idea what my best material is. Different people like different things. I'll say this: The political stuff gets the press, but the relationship jokes sell all the seats.

~ Chris Rock

Telecom is a dramatic success in India and our view is, respecting the political process, and respecting the fact that these are sovereign decisions, is that, approaching India as a friend.

~ John W. Snow

I'm not really a musician. I'm a performer, and I love rock n' roll. I've embraced rock n' roll because it encompasses all the things I'm interested in: poetry, revolution, sexuality, political activism - all of these things can be found in rock n' roll.

~ Patti Smith

Poetry can tell us about what's going on in our lives - not only our personal but our social and political lives.

~ Juan Felipe Herrera

The more one reads poetry, the less tolerant one becomes of any sort of verbosity, be that in political or philosophical discourse, be that in history, social studies or the art of fiction.

~ Joseph Brodsky

A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.

~ Seamus Heaney

Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.

~ Terry Eagleton

In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well.

~ Edmund S. Muskie

As long as anger, paranoia and misinformation drive our political debate, there are unhinged souls among us who will feel justified in turning to violent remedies for imagined threats.

~ David Horsey

It isn't enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflect this anger back into, 'How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?'

~ Colin Powell

Whether one admired or was repulsed by the positions he took on matters foreign and domestic, it is undeniable that Reagan's ability to project anger was highly attractive to his most passionate supporters on the far right - and crucial to his political success.

~ Jackson Katz

The Occupy movement found places where people who were feeling that anger could come and share it - and that is, as we all know, extremely important in any political movement. The Occupy sites became a way you could gauge the levels of anger and discontent.

~ Arundhati Roy

That feeds anger, and I mean when we went and at last thank heavens got towards peace in Northern Ireland we went for justice within Northern Ireland as well as using security well, as well as a political settlement, but surely that is the lesson.

~ Clare Short

There's a lot of anger in 'Queen of Denmark,' and that's me getting political.

~ John Grant

Unless and until Barack Obama addresses the full depth of Americans' anger with his full arsenal of policy smarts and political gifts, his presidency and, worse, our economy will be paralyzed.

~ Frank Rich

As with fascism, the rise of Islamic totalitarianism has partly to do with its populist appeal to the class resentments of an economically oppressed population and to anger at political subordination and humiliation.

~ Ellen Willis

There's a difference between an outburst of spontaneous anger, which doesn't have a political objective, and a more measured response that we saw in the Occupy Wall Street movement.

~ David Harvey

We shall never change our political leaders until we change the people who elect them.

~ Mark Skousen

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

~ William S. Burroughs

Activists are generally doers - rather than watching television and thinking about the world they will put there energies into doing something 'active' to change the (political) situation.

~ Ben Edwards

The difference between political terror and ordinary crime becomes clear during the change of regimes, in which former terrorists become well-regarded representatives of their country.

~ Jürgen Habermas

We're all living blinkered lives, and we're not seeing what's going on and looking to change it. I'm not saying that everyone has to make a political statement, but we need to be more aware of what's happening and why.

~ Samantha Morton

You start realizing that maybe you're the one night a month that people have out, and they don't need to hear your political views or how dark you can get. They just want to laugh for an hour and go home. Once I wrapped my head around that, my act evolved accordingly.

~ Billy Gardell

Here in Cameroon, football is our leading political party. It's football alone that that unites us, it's football alone that brings us good things - football is the window into our country - so we don't mess around with it.

~ Roger Milla

What I want is a sort of new political realignment on libertarian/authoritarian lines, and I want a new consensus to emerge of disaffected liberals, classical liberals, dissident minorities like gays, small-state conservatives, libertarians, people who basically want to be left alone.

~ Milo Yiannopoulos

If our system continues without modification involving environmental and social concern, we will face an economic and social breakdown of our outdated monetary and political system.

~ Jacque Fresco