Political Quotes - Page 227

My interest in political philosophy was rather casual until I met Hayek.

If China don't free up the political side, its economic growth will come to an end - while it is still at a very low level.

I know of no example in time or place of a society that has been marked by a large measure of political freedom, and that has not also used something comparable to a free market to organize the bulk of economic activity.

Well, killing me makes no sense because Georgia already has a Western-educated political class.

Those mutually opposed manifestos are written with the same eloquence, they breathe the same virtuous indignation, and one is just as sincere as the other; that is to say both of them are equally brazen in their lies, and it is only fools who are deceived by them. Sensible persons, all those who have had some political experience, do not even take the trouble of reading such manifestos.

All poetry is political, to some degree.

America's political system is superior to the crony corrupt corrupt capital system in Russia in every way.

When Donald Trump does his talking, he - he doesn't tiptoe around the thousand new rules of political correctness.

Hillary Clinton and her husband set up a private foundation called the Clinton Foundation. While she was secretary of state, the Clinton foundation accepted tens of millions of dollars from foreign governments and foreign donors. Now y'all need to know out there, this is basic stuff, foreign donors and certainly foreign governments cannot participate in the American political process.

Politics isn't something that really interested me; I, of course, care about what's going on in the world, but so much of political discourse now is not necessarily about doing what's right.

I have no political ambitions whatsoever. My ambitions are all about what XL can become.

By and large, people are sort of technologically averse in the political space.

There are so many similarities between a startup venture and a political campaign - the rhythm, the tempo, the hours, the intensity.

And I remember looking at Gray Davis and, you know, Gray is the consummate political operative.

Politicians are masters of sounding like they agree with you.

It's easy to talk about our system not functioning. It's actually functioning exactly the way we've designed it to function by giving so much power to the political parties, which all of our, you know, leading founders - Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison - all said don't create political parties like the ones we have now. We did it, and we're paying a very high price for it.

I have made on occasion posters and things like that for political reasons but not my work.

One of the reasons that I went to Mexico aside from the Maya and the pre-Columbian aspect of it was that I wanted to work with [Diego] Rivera, which I did, on a mural that he was painting at the time. But at some point I realized that I wasn't going to be a political artist, it just wasn't in my repertoire.

Very early on I was interested in doing political art, but it was not feminist political art.

I use to watch like maybe three or four movies, five days out of the week. I was a movie buff, but I really didn't know what it was like behind the scenes, or the whole political process of it.

It's hard to change adults, and it's hard to change it from a political position or a perceived political position.

When I did 'Battlestar Galactica' it was the first time I really understood science fiction. That was a very political drama, but set in spaceships so people didn't really take it seriously. But some really fascinating things were explored in that.

The good news is, the cake is baked. Barack Obama will not be reelected president.

Sarah Palin is a compelling political figure.

While I am reluctant to cite sexism as a political issue, sexism certainly can exist.