Political Quotes

It doesn't matter what country or what political system you are from. Space brings you together.

~ Valentina Tereshkova

You can't allow the forces of political correction to shut you up. I mean, why are people afraid to say, 'Merry Christmas?' Give me a break. If people don't like it, yeah, they can go do something else.

~ Ben Carson

I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.

~ Sara Paretsky

One thing about D.C. that's funny to me is that you end up running into famous political figures who you've seen on television who you think are not real until you see them.

~ Maz Jobrani

The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.

~ Woodrow Wilson

Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.

~ E. O. Wilson

It was my dream to come to Oxford and study political science.

~ Stormzy

I say you don't need religion, or political ideology, to understand human nature. Science reveals that human nature is greedy and selfish, altruistic and helpful.

~ Michael Shermer

I wasn't a major in political science for nothing, so I understood the politics of beauty and the politics of race when it comes to the fashion industry.

~ Iman

The problem is that once we focus on economic policy, much that is not science comes into play. Politics becomes involved, and political posturing is amply rewarded by public attention.

~ Robert J. Shiller

I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.

~ Bianca Jagger

My father was a professor of political science and also a young politician fighting for democracy in Kenya, and when things got ugly, he went into political exile in Mexico.

~ Lupita Nyong'o

I've finished 12th standard from Poddar International and enrolled for B.A. in political science in Cambridge University, London. It's a correspondence course, and I'll go to London for my exams once a year. That way, I can devote more time to films.

~ Hansika Motwani

Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!

~ Honoré De Balzac

Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history.

~ Jill Lepore

I'd like to see people pay attention to the science of hip hop. The knowledge part, the political side of what hip hop could do, or where hip hop is gonna go. I always say it's gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.

~ Afrika Bambaataa

Sense About Science is much more than an innocent fact-checking service. It is a spin-off of a bizarre political network that began life as the ultra-left Revolutionary Communist Party and switched over to extreme corporate libertarianism when it launched 'Living Marxism' magazine in the late eighties.

~ Zac Goldsmith

I thought I'd grow up to be a teacher, or maybe run for political office.

~ Jake Shimabukuro

I was born on a farm. My strength has nothing to do with political apparatus. I get my strength from nature, from flowers.

~ Ariel Sharon

The French Revolution will be found to have had great influence on the strength of parties, and on the subsequent political transactions of the United States.

~ John Marshall

My strength never came from political echelons, it came from the family. And from the fields and the lands and the flowers and everything I see there. My strength came from there.

~ Ariel Sharon

Neither India nor Russia perceives a threat from the strength of the other. Each sees a benefit for itself in the increased political and economic strength of the other.

~ Atal Bihari Vajpayee

I reserve the right to survey the national political landscape for candidates at all levels who reflect a proper understanding of our national security, economic security, and family security - the ideals of social conservation, the heart and strength of our country.

~ Jeff Fortenberry

Europe has a lot of strength. We need to pool that strength, and I am very much in favour of that - more of a deeper political union.

~ George Papandreou

I have not the smarts or patience for political office.

~ Henry Rollins

In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.

~ Ida B. Wells

I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity.

~ Mads Mikkelsen

True equality means holding everyone accountable in the same way, regardless of race, gender, faith, ethnicity - or political ideology.

~ Monica Crowley

In my opinion, the battles over birth control and Planned Parenthood are primarily neither political nor religious. This is an issue of equality for women. This is an issue of women's rights: Planned Parenthood is the most important private provider of reproductive health care for women in the United States.

~ Karen Decrow

Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.

~ B. R. Ambedkar

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

~ Mikhail Bakunin

I think when you're talking about marriage equality and race, people very quickly start to get into their political corners: their ideology comes to the forefront, and they get into this platform argument that they're used to making, which really doesn't have anything to do with the day-to-day basics of what is being talked about.

~ Jeff Nichols

Within loyalism and the UVF, there are clearly people who are not just aggravated by the issue around flags or parades. They're aggravated by me and Sinn Fein being in government. They're opposed to the political institutions - there's an inability of a minority within loyalism to accept the concept of equality.

~ Martin Mcguinness

Transgender folks have been part of the push for LGBT equality from the beginning, and we've spoken with loud and intelligent voices and have found political and personal success and advancement all over the world.

~ Chelsea Manning

I've praised Obama's record on same-sex equality as enthusiastically as anyone: it's one area where his record has been impressive. I understand, and have expressed, the emotional importance for LGBT Americans of his marriage announcement as well as its political significance.

~ Glenn Greenwald

If supporters of equality for women want to vote for the best candidate, they must look to a person regardless of gender and must disregard the gender of political opponents.

~ Karen Decrow

The rights of one sex, political and otherwise, are the same as those of the other sex, and this equality of rights ought to be fully recognized.

~ Leland Stanford

The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

~ Arthur Hugh Clough

Earlier feminists were almost universally pro-choice and have dominated political debate until now. Having access to abortion was viewed as the only way women could have full equality with men, who, until recently, couldn't get pregnant.

~ Kathleen Parker

I don't see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately right wing, and loyal to the political framework and its corporate interests.

~ Thom Yorke