Political Quotes - Page 153

The body must be regarded as a site of social, political, cultural and geographical inscriptions, production or constitution. The body is not opposed to culture, a resistant throwback to a natural past; it is itself a cultural, the cultural product.

The Republican argument that raising the debt ceiling encourages additional future spending is logically irresponsible. The debt ceiling has to be raised to authorize spending already approved by Congress. Despite that fallacy, the GOP has been able to score political points with its argument.

Our politics is very masculine, very aggressive, and it's very polarizing. And the pace of this development has increased in recent years. Erdogan is, in my eyes, the most polarizing politician in recent Turkish political history.

I'm not a political person. I usually beware of political persons. I know many, but I'm not one of them. I have no political ambitions.

With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.

Swift calls discretion low prudence; it is high prudence, and one of the most important elements entering into either social or political life.

I know the media likes to personalize political debates, and I know the government will demonize me.

Getting inequality out there into the consciousness was important. All these political pundits now talking about the 2014 and 2016 elections are talking about inequality.

History should be to the political economist a wellspring of experience and wisdom.

The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by violence when convenient.

Irresponsibility, cowardice, personal vanity, whining and chaos are becoming the maxims of political action. There is a stink in Berlin - a huge one!

War is the matter which fills all history; and consequently the only, or almost the only, view in which we can see the external of political society is in a hostile shape: and the only actions to which we have always seen, and still see, all of them intent, are such as tend to the destruction of one another.

You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.

What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes incarnate in the world?

The economy in Ireland has been rampaging ahead for the last 15 years. Barring an international, political or natural catastrophe, things can only get better for the Irish.

While I do not hesitate to applaud certain aspects of the resolution honoring the sacrifices of our courageous soldiers who are risking their lives in Iraq, I cannot be supportive of capitalizing on these very sacrifices for political gain.

The stage of the development of the productive forces determines the political and ideological superstructure of society which are crystallized into a system of social organization.

When a man once gets a start holding office, it is nearly always necessary to finally choke him off.

Hope is different from optimism. Hope is a tough virtue, not a psychological predisposition. Hope insists on taking facts and reason into account and still insisting that improvement ... is always a real possibility.

[Washington] is the political capital. It's essentially a big office.

Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.

No one should be appointed to political office if he is a seeker after it.

Whatever your personal political feelings are, if you become involved in them publicly you're bound to come out the loser.

They've been changing the cry from "global warming" to "climate change" because there's so little evidence there's actually any warming going on. I believe that as little as a decade from now, global warming will be recognized as one of the greatest swindles in world history. It has so little scientific basis, it can only rationally be considered a political scam.

People are really in despair today in Greece. They are afraid of tomorrow. They suffer. We have 1.2 million people without jobs. So you understand that this crisis cannot leave the political system untouched. Of course we have to change but we have to change in the right way.