Let it be immediately added, however, that this economic independence and prosperity has always been absolutely associated in the American mind with free political institutions.
~ Herbert Croly
While Haiti has recently celebrated more than 200 years of independence from French colonial rule, the citizens of the island remain vulnerable to poverty, poor health, and political chaos.
~ Eliot Engel
As long as the appointment process is transparent and there is a broad mix of political views among the governors of the BBC, I think the public can feel confident that impartiality and independence are just as important to me as they have been to previous incumbents.
~ Gavyn Davies
I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.
~ Samuel Dash
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
~ Anaïs Nin
True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion.
~ Henry Cabot Lodge
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes.
~ Kjell Magne Bondevik
How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?
~ Andrew Sullivan
A political party cannot have a religion. Only individuals can. Otherwise, you'd be exploiting religion, and religion is so supreme that it cannot be exploited or taken advantage of.
~ Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.
~ Friedrich Dürrenmatt
History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be.
~ John Henrik Clarke
Every time I think I know what's right and wrong, I end up being wrong. All I want to do is explore. I want to see what people would do. I say, 'What would this person do in this situation?' and I write it down. I'm not writing manifestos of my political views.
~ Carolyn Chute
It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge.
~ John Oliver
I have to think that I think it's always been a horse race between this administration's temporary political acumen and their completely, utterly, totally bankrupt policies. And they're coming home to roost. It was always a question of time. These guys aren't conservative. These guys are radicals.
~ Bradley Whitford
One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.
~ Thomas Sowell
Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
~ Pat Robertson
Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny it is the political defense of women hating.
~ Andrea Dworkin
One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson's investment theory of politics, as he calls it - very outstanding political economist - which essentially - I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
~ Noam Chomsky
I believe in Las Vegas. I think its best days are ahead of it. But I'm afraid to do anything in the current political environment in the United States.
~ Steve Wynn
Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.
~ Milton Friedman
People didn't vote left or right in the election. They voted for putting an end to all the primitive political history.
~ Fatos Nano
If the Philippines must remain under the control of Spain, they will necessarily have to be transformed in a political sense, for the course of their history and the needs of their inhabitants so require.
~ José Rizal
After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history.
~ Condoleezza Rice
If journalism is the first draft of history, then talk radio provides an early glimpse into how the meaning of political events will be spun for ideological and partisan purposes.
~ Jackson Katz
The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society.
~ Claudio Hummes
In 1987, the United States celebrates the bicentennial anniversary of the constitutional convention that provided the basic rules for the American political order. This convention was one of the very few historical examples in which political rules were deliberately chosen.
~ James M. Buchanan
Both the Obama and Romney campaigns said they pulled all their political ads today in observance of the September 11th anniversary. But politics wasn't very far offstage. The Obama campaign sees foreign policy as an advantage this year.
~ Mara Liasson
The American Right has an amazing ability to lionize leaders whose lives are the precise antithesis of the political values that define their image.
~ Glenn Greenwald
You could easily do a book of Marshawn Lynch's quotes, which have a quite serious political pushback. I think he's really amazing.
~ David Shields
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
~ Mao Zedong
Revolution is about the need to re-evolve political, economic and social justice and power back into the hands of the people, preferably through legislation and policies that make human sense. That's what revolution is about. Revolution is not about shootouts.
~ Bobby Seale
Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.
~ Andrew Jackson
Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
~ Khalil Gibran
The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
~ Walter Annenberg
A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not just those who have the resources to seize political power.
~ Harry Browne
We should recognize that nationalism does not mean discriminating against people of a different nationality. It simply means not allowing such people to seize our political power, for only when we Han are in control politically do we have a nation.
~ Sun Yat-Sen
Impeachment must not be a raw exercise of political power in which the House impeaches whoever it wishes for any reason it deems sufficient. Indeed, it is the solemn duty of all of the members of the House in any impeachment case to exercise their judgment faithfully within the confines established by our Constitution.
~ Charles T. Canady
