Political Quotes - Page 177

In Europe it is particularly important that we build good relations to everyone who holds political responsibility because Europe can only be build together.

He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.

White House political adviser Karl Rove was one of Robert Novak's sources for the 2003 disclosure of a CIA operative's identity, according to a story published today in "Duh" magazine.

I enjoy being around people who disagree with me; and I enjoy being in non-political contexts and activities.

There are, perhaps, few men who can for any length of time enjoy office and power without being more or less under the influence of feelings unfavorable to the faithful discharge of their political duties.

In many points in history films and filmmakers have been banned for political reasons- that's how annoying they can be to oppressing systems, how dangerous.

It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.

Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.

We live in a world where there is a need for pluralistic institutions and for recognizing different types of freedom, economic, social, cultural, and political, which are interrelated.

Political Islam is not a homogeneous bloc.

The making of a human likeness on film is a political act.

If somebody's gonna stab me in the back, I wanna be there.

Political correctness is an intellectual sickness. It means lying when telling the truth is not expedient. It is a disgusting habit and yet it is so widespread and so common that it is considered to be normal.

We live in a world in which celebrity recognition, media access, and power translate very quickly into political power and indeed economic power.

Any extreme political creed brought only darkness in the long run; it lit up nothing. The best politics were those of caution, tolerance and moderation, Angus maintained, but such politics were, alas, also very dull, and certainly moved nobody to poetry.

To model our political system upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character.

Is it not time to awake from the deceitful dream of a golden age, and to adopt as a practical maxim for the direction of our political conduct, that we, as well as the other inhabitants of the globe, are yet remote from the happy empire of perfect wisdom and perfect virtue?

It may safely be received as an axiom in our political system, that the state governments will in all possible contingencies afford complete security against invasions of the public liberty by the national authority.

Pose a political threat to Business As Usual, and sooner or later, mostly sooner, someone will try to kill you.

My film is intentionally political. And I think that's really the issue.

It is important to eliminate the stigma created by American imperialism and its allies regarding the Cuban political system. That stigma must be eliminated. You may think that there are no direct elections in Cuba. I am going to tell that they are direct and you can compare our process with any other country including the United States.

Wherever we turn we find that the real obstacles to peace are human will and feeling, human convictions, prejudices, opinions. If we want to get rid of war we must get rid first of all of its psychological causes. Only when this has been done will the rulers of the nations even desire to get rid of the economic and political causes.

[There is] a duty in refusing to cooperate in any undertaking that violates the Constitutional rights of the individual. This holds in particular for all inquisitions that are concerned with the private life and the political affiliations of the citizens.

I do feel more myself in America. I can regress there, and they have roller-coaster parks.

In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers.