Political Quotes - Page 161

In politics, as in fishing, you don't have to be a genius. You just have to be smarter than the fish.

There is an element of delusional obsession in the French political elite's preoccupation with the notion that France is still a global power.

Let's face it: The Jewish community is the most active political community in American society.

I'm the company philosopher and the burr in the saddle. I'm the one who says we need to try harder, improve the quality of our products, become a part of the political process, help elect people who are good for the environment.

Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right.

With a click of the Post Comment button, Netizens can quickly bring down the level of dialogue. Bloggers lob zingers, commenters trade barbs, and bullies target kids in the cyber schoolyard. Mudslinging - a time-honored political tradition - thrives on the Web.

You're going to be accused of every high crime and low misdemeanor there is.

Dressing is a matter of taste, and I've met very few Republicans with good taste.

The Labour Party is going about the country stirring up apathy.

All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war.

The Constitution favors no racial group - no political or social group.

Political parties are complicated coalitions and aren't excessively theoretical.

The great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.

I would hazard the statement that in the broad sense [Ho Chi Minh's] ideas had triumphed, since the communist victory in Vietnam was a consequence of political, diplomatic, and psychological factors more than military ones. That is a tribute to the ideas that he introduced in his life and thought.

George Bush was not elected by a majority of the voters in the United States. He was appointed by God.

We must not waste life in devising means. It is better to plan less and do more.

Letter to the committee in charge of the celebration of the centennial of the American Constitution. I have always regarded that Constitution as the most remarkable work known to me in modern times to have been produced by the human intellect, at a single stroke (so to speak), in its application to political affairs.

The greater concerns in China and Taiwan are on the political side, not on the economic side.

More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.

There's no way in the world you're going to make a political party respectable unless you keep it out of office.

To me, political office should be like jury duty. You should just get a notice in the mail one day and say, 'Aw, sh - , I'm secretary of state next month.

In Russia, we are ready to listen to our partners, ready to listen to appraisals and assessments when it is done in a friendly manner, in order to establish contacts and create a common atmosphere and dedicate ourselves to shared values. But we absolutely will not accept when such things are used as a tool of political struggle. I want everybody to know that. This is our message.

I always had a problem when someone was trying to place sport in social and political context. Sport is a separate and unique kind of human activity, which functions under its own rules and principles. It has nothing to do with the political agenda, and neither it should. When politics interferes with sport, unjust things happen.

For Russia, there is not and there may not be another political option but democracy. However, Russian democracy is... not at all the realization of standards imposed on us from outside.

We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement.