Political Quotes - Page 209

Putting something in a movie because it's in the news doesn't make it political to me. If you're not going outside the same old, same old, if you're not pushing the envelope, then you're not doing anything. A good movie is a political thing.

Time Rolls On' is my most political piece so far. It's not on my album because people didn't support it.

A wise governor told me a long time ago, political capital you don't get more of by keeping it. You get it by using it.

You have to be a political leader, willing to lose an election if you want to do what's right.

I believe in working together to solve the problems we've got. And we need to get rid of the venom in the political atmosphere in D.C. It's a poisonous atmosphere.

Well, Bill, I don't think you're going to find many shy people that are in the political business.

In order for an act to be a crime, libertarians say, someone must be harmed - there must be a victim. Anything that's peaceful, voluntary, and honest should be tolerated regardless of whether we agree with it. Part of the price of our own freedom is allowing others to be free.

If free will exists, why do the tallest candidates with the best hair usually win elections ?

The arts can bring the heart to the aid of the head, the personal to the political.

The most powerful political voices are those with a different way of seeing and processing the world and the sounds that emanate from it.

The failure of the first Barack Obama administration to really deliver on a new War on Poverty and a new language to explain these societal challenges in some ways provided the fuel that led to the Occupy Movement a few years later. And, while Occupy was a somewhat transitory phenomenon, many of the activist groups that emerged during this period are still out there, and still working on reshaping the political debate around taxes, around welfare, around government assistance to the poor, around debt relief for students, and so on.

That's what I like to call him, "the current president." I find it difficult to say or type his name, George W. Bush. I like to call him "the current president" because it's a hopeful phrase, implying that his administration is only temporary.

I feel like I've always had two selves - the part of me that makes films and the part of me that's political, and they haven't really connected that much. Alias Grace talks about things like class and immigration and women's rights, which felt really good. But especially now, there are pressing things to be said. It's a really scary time in the world. It's a very scary thing to have an American president who openly brags about assaulting women and is openly racist. This isn't a moment to be speaking in metaphors.

Our own GOP machine, the establishment, they who would assemble the political landscape, they're attacking their own front-runner.

If we were real domestic terrorists, shoot, President Obama would be wanting to pal around with us, wouldn't he?

Stand up, speak out, and be bold. Screw political correctness. Never let them tell you to sit down and shut up.

Read the editorial page of your local paper. It introduces you to opinion and can be terrifically provocative and perhaps a great motivating force for you to get involved in your community, regardless of your political ideology.

I don't think it's the court's perceived role to do some explaining of a political nature.

[G]overnment endorsement . . . of religion . . . sends a message to nonadherents that they are outsiders, not full members of the political community, and an accompanying message to adherents that they are insiders, favored members of the political community.

Certainly there are various trans-Islamic political movements, which try to appeal to Muslims in all societies.

As far as ideology or political beliefs are concerned, countries are very different.

The civilities of the great are never thrown away.

In all political regulations, good cannot be complete, it can only be predominant.

Political liberty is only good insofar as it produces private liberty.

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.