Political Quotes - Page 168

Both the Obama and Romney campaigns said they pulled all their political ads today in observance of the September 11th anniversary. But politics wasn't very far offstage. The Obama campaign sees foreign policy as an advantage this year.

Every collectivist assumes a different source for the collective will, according to his own political, religious and national convictions.

That wall, embodied in the First Amendment, is perhaps America's most important contribution to political progress on this planet.

The political objective of universal capitalism is maximum individual autonomy, the separation of political power wielded by the holders of public office from economic power held by citizens, and the broad diffusion of privately owned economic power.

Among the most urgent political priorities of our age is the separation of economy and state.

Everything done by the state is ultimately done by means of aggression, which is to say violence or the threat of violence against the innocent.

Only a country that feels invulnerable can afford political turmoil as entertainment.

It's very hard to impose your beliefs or a specific message about any given movie. I think that audiences always extract what they want from a film even if something isn't overtly political. They may or may not get it, and it's hard to control that.

Education, they [philosophers] felt, is the only answer to the always pressing question, to the political question par excellence, of how to reconcile order which is not oppression with freedom which is not license.

I am not a particularly political person, but, as a Tribeca resident, the commodification of September 11th is offensive to me.

We want the best possible relations with Russia, of course. But at the same time, we are very vigilant when it comes to the German-Russian relationship. The reasons for this bilateral pipeline through the Baltic Sea were purely political.

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Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking.

The International Brigade was not formed to protect freedom and democracy. It was founded as a tool of of the Comintern, to promote the interests of the Soviet Union - and thereby of Joseph Stalin, the butcher of millions. It made political sense for the International Brigade to recruit non-communists - useful fools was what Lenin had called such people in an earlier manipulation of gullible decency - but of course most were then vetted by the NKVD, the Soviet Union's secret police.

Chris Rock does the political thing really well, but that never worked for me.

I need to say how I feel.aIf you were a political person before, and you just happened into a movie, to stop being a political person makes no sense. I always laugh and say, 'Dudes, if I have to choose, I'm a political person first. I would never do another movie again and be completely happy.' I need to say how I feel.

My rage and sense of alienation as to how women have been written, have allowed themselves to be written, in so many ways, has political roots.

Just because you have political beliefs or feminist beliefs, you don't have to like everybody, you don't have to like everything.

If you decide to become a political actor, then the things that you say and you do become subject of public scrutiny and comment.

The stuff that I've been doing lately is political. It's not always about people who are super famous movie stars. The fact that people are still taking a chance and listening to the blacklist episodes is really exciting.

If you look at the history of the FBI, it has become effectively America's political police.

Any sort of political correctness needs to be swept out of the way

And I've been incredibly lucky to have a long career in journalism that has given me a front-row seat to some of the most important moments in modern American political life.

Ours was not a political household, when I was growing up.

What would it mean if we lived in a world in which no one held out for the possibility of substantial political equality, or for a full cessation of colonial practices - if no one held out for those things because they were impossible?