Political Quotes

We ain't gonna fight no reactionary pigs who run up and down the street being reactionary; we're gonna organize and dedicate ourselves to revolutionary political power and teach ourselves the specific needs of resisting the power structure, arm ourselves, and we're gonna fight reactionary pigs with international proletarian revolution.

~ Fred Hampton

Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.

~ Henry A. Wallace

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.

~ José Saramago

Unless we do things in this country to slow down our population, slow down our birth control, provide better water for people, provide power for people, we're gonna find out that the next wars are not going to be fought over diamonds, gold and political things.

~ Evel Knievel

Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness.

~ Robert Casey

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.

~ Maggie Gallagher

I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.

~ Elia Kazan

Power is action the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

~ Honoré De Balzac

There was no instruction to be thankful that the Christians were special people, chosen people. There was no nationalistic, political or ethnic superiority to be thankful for.

~ John Clayton

In El Salvador, when neighbors were disappeared, tortured or killed, people doubted their own knowledge of the victims, and worried there must have been some secret guilt involved to deserve such punishment! That's how political terror succeeds.

~ Mimi Kennedy

Schools still operate as if all knowledge is contained in books, and as if the salient points in books must be stored in each human brain - to be used when needed. The political and financial powers controlling schools decide what these salient points are.

~ Sugata Mitra

If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage.

~ Katharine Graham

Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don't always reflect or act on that knowledge.

~ David Suzuki

The counterculture has nothing to do with Dolce & Gabbana having a 'Hippy Summer' or something. Street kids, and kids who want to live in any sort of counter-cultural experience other than what's being presented by the mainstream media or political climate, or 'normal' cultural climate, are never going to look like that.

~ Chris Robinson

When political leaders fail to denounce anti-Semitic violence and slurs, the void is not only demoralizing to the victims, but silence actually enables the wrongdoing. Silence by elected officials in particular conveys approval - or at least acquiescence - and can contribute to a climate of fear and a sense of vulnerability.

~ Chris Smith

I think leadership is knowing what you want to achieve and then purposefully and sensibly taking steps to achieve it, remembering always that you have got to bring people with you if you are seeking to be a successful political leader.

~ Tony Abbott

People more than ever since I can remember are concerned about being out of step and out of line with their political party and won't cross over. There is nobody, man or woman, who wants to be left out, and people are fearful of that. People are fearful of their leadership as well.

~ Gary Ackerman

What we heard today was not fiscal leadership from our Commander-in-Chief, what we heard today was a political broadside from our Campaigner-in-Chief.

~ Paul Ryan

The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.

~ Michael Pollan

Inspiration is an underexamined part of political life and presidential leadership.

~ George Packer

In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights.

~ Samantha Power

School boards can be a steppingstone to higher forms of political leadership.

~ Wendy Kopp

I do think the U.S. has a moral and political leadership role to play.

~ Elizabeth Esty

The nation's chronic weakness is its political system, which is nearing dysfunction. If the U.S. can elect better political leadership, it should be able to manage problems better than most competitors.

~ David Ignatius

We have to reform the entire political process. It's got to start with leadership by example.

~ Chris Gibson

I don't think one party has a bad vision over the other party. I have no doubts that every Indian and every Indian political leadership would like to see this country get to a much better level. We would all like to see inclusive growth.

~ Baba Kalyani

There are certain skills that business people have that are - that are, in fact, helpful in - when it comes to being in political leadership.

~ Rick Santorum

I've never worried about payback. People are hungry for leadership that's not afraid of political consequence.

~ Wendy Davis

At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means.

~ Gerry Adams

Too often, advances in civil rights or women's rights are undermined by wrong-headed legislation or weak-kneed political leadership.

~ Mike Quigley

Despite the increasingly presidential style of political leadership in our country, teamwork is essential.

~ Bob Ainsworth

The country has sorted itself ideologically into the two political parties, and those partisan attachments have hardened in recent years. It will take an extraordinary event and act of leadership to break this partisan divide. I thought 9/11 might provide such an opportunity, but it was not seized.

~ Thomas E. Mann

We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded.

~ Neil Sheehan

Even today with the public's growing interest in food and diet issues, politicians rarely include food as part of their political platforms.

~ Jose Andres

I think one of the saddest things that's happening to literature is that it's getting over-simplified by this diet of simple political ideas.

~ Arundhati Roy

In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed.

~ John Rawls

I have a lot of stands on a lot of political issues. I'm very big on campaign finance reform. I still think most Americans aren't aware of how the dumping of big corporate dollars and private donor dollars has totally corrupted the political system and taken it away from them.

~ Morgan Fairchild

Wall Street has too much wealth and political power.

~ Charlie Munger

Chancellor Angela Merkel and Wolfgang Schaeuble, her finance minister, are right to oppose fiscal and bank unions without political union.

~ Edmund Phelps

But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating.

~ Robert Mcchesney