Political Quotes - Page 145

As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to start painting in the social background on a scale which eventually became panoramic.

My father, one of the great entrepreneurs and philanthropists of this state, taught me that capital - monetary or political - is to be used to benefit others. I intend to continue that tradition.

To be clear. I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy.

How much of our literature, our political life, our friendships and love affairs, depend on being able to talk peacefully in a bar!

There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is as indispensable to a good condition of human affairs, as protection against political despotism.

In this age, the mere example of nonconformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service.

The reduction of political discourse to sound bites is one of the worst things that's happened in American political life.

The great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than the furnace blast, is all in very deed for this -- that we manufacture everything there except men.

Your race and gender don't change, but you can choose to change your political affiliation at will.

I grew up in Sydney in a very political household, where we were all for the underdog.

But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth the trouble put in.

Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions.

Political suicide can end a career.

Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin are sowing the seeds of hatred and division, and there is no need for this hostility in our political discourse.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict.

Technology, under all circumstances, leads to planning; in its higher manifestations it may put the problems of planning beyond the reach of the industrial firm. Technological compulsions, and not ideology or political will, will require the firm to seek the help and protection of the state.

I react pragmatically. Where the market works, I'm for that. Where the government is necessary, I'm for that. I'm deeply suspicious of somebody who says, 'I'm in favor of privatization,' or, 'I'm deeply in favor of public ownership.' I'm in favor of whatever works in the particular case.

There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.

It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly.

I feel like musicians have such a precarious place in the political discourse, because musicians are, sort of just by nature, people-pleasers.

I figured out Karl Rove's political strategy -- make gas so expensive, no Democrats can afford to go to the polls.

I'm an idealist without illusions.

They that possess the prince possess the laws.

Democrats were simply hoping to win some political points by getting their outlandish rhetoric published in the newspapers and heard on the talk shows.