Political Quotes - Page 117

He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.

A political philosophy (often called "political science" by practitioners who are not averse from verbal trickery) must deal with contemporary realities. If it does not, if it is charged with "ideals," it is merely a variety of romantic fiction, although it may not be recognized as such.

The US and the European Union needs to help in the translation of the demand for democracy into a political will.

I have allowed the president to pick his political appointees…But I will not sit quietly and let him shred the Constitution.

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy.

I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.

My personal political convictions are rooted in the populist political traditions of western Canada.

I would like to ask all those who have positions of responsibility in economic, political and social life, and all men and women of goodwill: let us be 'protectors' of creation, protectors of God's plan inscribed in nature, protectors of one another and of the environment.

I ask everyone with political responsibility to remember two things: human dignity and the common good.

The Church is not a political power, nor a political party, but rather a moral reality, a moral force.

That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman.

... Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the direction of the whole.

As soon as I set foot in the parliamentary Sinai, I ceased to be in touch with the masses.

The true measure of a city is its soul. This is the restless energy that doesn't wait for political leadership.

The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism.

My fear is that that's what's going to happen with robotics and the military. Importantly, this discussion has to involve not just the scientists, but also the political scientists. It's got to be a multidisciplinary discussion. You can't have it be another repeat of what happened with the people working on the atomic bomb.

The place where the system and people's intentions meet is the political arena.

Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite controversial subjects. Certainly what we did followed on from what was happening with the angry young men in the theatre.

What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists.

The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.

You are Americans. You love this country. Together we are entrusted with the principles that represent mankind's greatest political and social achievement.

It's no coincidence that trust in government is at an all-time low now that the size of government is at an all-time high.

Governments do not necessarily act in the national interest, especially when making detailed microeconomic interventions. Instead, they are influenced by interest group pressures. The kinds of interventions that new trade theory suggests can raise national income will typically raise the welfare of small, fortunate groups by large amounts, while imposing costs on larger, more diffuse groups.

Top IRS officials specifically targeted tea party groups and misled the public about its secret political targeting program led by ex-official Lois Lerner, according to a bombshell new congressional report.

The genius of the Republicans has been how they figured out how to so polarize the middle class that we vote against our own best interests.