Political Quotes - Page 112

When these political action committees give money, they expect something in return other than good government.

I'm an actor who plays an intriguing character, not a political pundit.

Don't vote, it only encourages them.

I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all.

My theory is this; I'm not a political songwriter. I'm an honest songwriter.

Fox News and Rush Limbaugh have raised ignorance to ideology and stupefied an entire political party. No more roguish and rowdy band of predators ever did more to demean and despoil the democracy on whose carcass they feed.

[Hillary] Clinton is too much into regime change and a little bit too aggressive without knowing what the unintended consequences might be. Yes, we could get rid of Assad tomorrow, but that would create another political vacuum that would benefit ISIS.

You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government.

We are here to let in the light of Liberty upon political superstition.

[It was] the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament which has caused in the colonies hatred of the English and . . . the Revolutionary War.

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

I say that justice is truth in action.

What is important is that a political party articulates the mood of a generation.

Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.

Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

[T]he kingdom of God... is to be a political institution that shall hold sway over all the earth; to which all other governments will be subordinate and by which they will be dominated.

An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?' of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind.

Those who call for censorship in the name of the oppressed ought to recognize it is never the oppressed who determine the bounds of censorship.

Men cannot be treated as units in operations of political arithmetic because they behave like the symbols for zero and the infinite , which dislocate all mathematical operations.

Have you ever seen a candidate talking to a rich person on television?

Political courage is not political suicide.

. . . Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

Narratives are not fixed. We change our narratives for ourselves and we change them not necessarily deliberately. In other words, some people do, some people will constantly reconstruct their biography for external purposes, it's a very interesting political ploy.