Political Quotes

We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people.

~ Helmut Kohl

Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.

~ Robert Casey

Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that.

~ Don Rickles

Down the road, I'll probably have a kid or two or three. And there will probably be political events or spiritual things to comment on, and humor.

~ Alanis Morissette

The comics that are just conversing with you up there and drawing on their own life, yeah, I guess so. I guess some do political humor, some do topical humor, but the ones that I like, the ones that are appealing to me, were guys who were just talking to you about their life.

~ Ray Romano

Both conservatives and liberals watch 'Parks and Recreation,' and they each think the show is for them, which is really cool. 'SNL' was totally different. It was exciting because everyone was paying attention. Political humor works when people know what you're talking about.

~ Amy Poehler

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.

~ David Zucker

There's such a rich history in 'SNL' of political humor, and I think audience members expect that from us.

~ Sasheer Zamata

Lesbian humor isn't trying to sell anything, it doesn't have to sell out. Coming out as a lesbian onstage is still a very political act; if it weren't, more women would do it.

~ Kate Clinton

The day that the balance between the two sections of the country - the slaveholding States and the non-slaveholding States - is destroyed is a day that will not be far removed from political revolution, anarchy, civil war, and widespread disaster.

~ John C. Calhoun

The critical importance of honest journalism and a free flowing, respectful national conversation needs to be had in our country. But it is being buried as collateral damage in a war whose battles include political correctness and ideological orthodoxy.

~ Juan Williams

Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and greed are destroying the middle class of America.

~ Bernie Sanders

In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Construction of the first gas pipeline system was started during the 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, and for all those years, from the 1960s until this day, Russia has been fulfilling its contract obligations in a very consistent and reliable way, regardless of the political situation.

~ Vladimir Putin

No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.

~ A. J. P. Taylor

I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.

~ P. D. James

Science fiction has always been a means for political comment. H.G. Wells' 'The War of the Worlds' wasn't about a Martian invasion - it was a critique of British colonialism, and... 'The Time Machine' is really an indictment of the British class system.

~ Robert J. Sawyer

I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.

~ Siegfried Sassoon

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

~ Carl Von Clausewitz

Let us wage a moral and political war against war itself, so that we can cut military spending and use that money for human needs.

~ Bernie Sanders

The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.

~ George Mcgovern

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.

~ Carl Von Clausewitz

Our failure as a society to properly acknowledge and confront the psychological, social, and political effects of white privilege has perpetuated racial inequality and race-based political resentments.

~ Tim Wise

Primarily affecting low-information voters and members of the mainstream media, Obama Worship Syndrome attributes impossible capabilities to Obama's political opponents, finds excuses for every Obama failure in everyone around him and praises the president as the finest politician - nay, human being - of our time.

~ Ben Shapiro

If China stood on an equal basis with other nations, she could compete freely with them in the economic field and be able to hold her own without failure. But as soon as foreign nations use political power as a shield for their economic designs, then China is at a loss how to resist or to compete successfully with them.

~ Sun Yat-Sen

The failure of the White House and Congress to seriously address the nation's fiscal situation is certain to broaden the belief among many voters that the U.S. political system is broken.

~ Ron Fournier

Trump's biggest failure as a political leader is that he sees the worst in people, and he encourages the worst in people.

~ J. D. Vance

That's the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand, failure follows. The anger is OK, but it has to serve the interests of the heart, frankly.

~ Berkeley Breathed

As is well known, 'McCarthyism' was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: Accusations of Communist taint, without factual basis; bogus lists of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion.

~ M. Stanton Evans

The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings.

~ Millicent Fawcett

I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.

~ Nelson Mandela

I try not to name too many labels - not because it's not cool, but because it starts getting political.

~ Nelly

Tobey's a mellow, cool guy. He's just a good guy. I know that's not the answer you want, and I don't mean that as the political thing to say, but he's a nice guy.

~ Neil Patrick Harris

Corporate communications will become a high-tech art, just as political communication is for Obama.

~ Tina Brown

I've worked very hard in this book to keep the lines of communication open. I don't want to turn someone away from this information for partisan political reasons.

~ Jared Diamond

I really think that music itself, being one of the greatest possible vehicles for mass communication, should be probed to its extremes, to see how effective it can actually become, which is one of the reasons why I became also interested in presenting political points of view.

~ Ruben Blades

Politics is a matter of human transaction. I consider absolutely everything political, because all fiction involves relationships between people, and relationships between people always include matters of power, of equity, of communication.

~ Deborah Eisenberg

Political columnists and sports pundits are rewarded for being overconfident.

~ Daniel Kahneman

The Tour de France would make a great movie. Drugs, corruption, political chicanery, guys risking their lives - everything you need for a great sports drama.

~ Asif Kapadia

One of the remarkable things about Donald Trump is that he didn't just beat the Progressive establishment - he also beat the Conservative establishment. Two political tribes that dominated Washington for half a century were defeated in the space of one election campaign.

~ Milo Yiannopoulos