Political Quotes - Page 140

Because we believe that our ethnic group, our society, our political party, our God, is better than your God, we kill each other.

Where do politicians come from? Why, they come from Uranus!

The one thing government has which we (you or I or any corporation) DON'T have, is the ability to use deadly force to accomplish its goals.

For achieving good governance political will is necessary. Good governance is a political process. Though role of civil society is critical, without political will and political process, sustainable good governance cannot be achieved.

I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.

I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.

I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.

Political technology determines political success.

The one instrument that has relative political autonomy is monetary policy. Central banks do not need to go to Congress to get approval for an interest rate hike.

Corporations are people, my friend.

Sure, things could always have been done better, but I just wish people would drop their political hammers for a few weeks, as happened in 2001, and work on the problem at hand

I try not to put anything political on the forefront of what I'm trying to do creatively. At the same time, I do think it's wonderful when I hear people say that it's inspirational that I'm an Indian woman on camera. My life is very diverse, and my friends are a diverse group of people.

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.

I also love the makers of South Park, because they're political, strong, and they're making all of these comments that would get you shot for if you did it in a drama.

For millenia, man remained what he was for Aristotle: a living animal with the additional capacity for a political existence; modern man is an animal whose politics places his exitence as a living being in question.

The thing I fear most is fear.

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

The Federalists also used bribes, intimidation, and fraud against opponents of the Constitution.

Conservative pundits have a remarkable amount of free speech.

If sexual intercourse, as the poets tell us, began in 1963, it was another decade and a half before the American political system began to take notice.

So the result was that as one approached a political convention for most of the 19th century and for most of the 20th century until the 1960's, part of the drama was the fact that you didn't know ultimately who was going to be the nominee at the end of that convention week.

First of all, there's no mention of political parties in the Constitution, so you begin American history with not only no political conventions but also no parties.

We're an ideal political family, as accessible as Disneyland.

Even when conservatives have all the marbles, they still act as if they're under siege. Now that they are under siege, it is no time for them to act as if they're losing their marbles.

If freedom in the imagination is a privilege, it's one I believe everyone should have, as a basic human right. I also believe that poems not only make meaning, but are more often than not engaged in some way with our deepest human issues, be they personal or societal or political.