Political Quotes - Page 244

It's a matter of fact that Senator Obama has spent more money on negative ads than any political campaign in history.

Don't let anyone tell you otherwise - not our political opponents, and certainly not a disingenuous filmmaker, who would have us believe.

It seems to me that President Carter has earned his place as if not the worst president in history, the worst president of the 20th Century.

Gold is a relic from a time when government's were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now.

I always read the papers, the political bits.

I've never voted. I've never voted yet although I could have voted for the last ten years.

In my case I've never not been political, though religion tended to overshadow it in my acid days.

I was trying to say something about Christianity, the idea that you have to be tortured to attain heaven. I didn't believe that.

We're not disinterested in politics. It's just that politicians are disinteresting.

I've always been politically minded, you know, and against the status quo.

On one hand we go like hell for every terror cell we can find, we penetrate it, we destroy it. On the other hand, there is a much bigger need for a political solution.

It was a charming fantasy of romantics that the spies would stop spying, that political conflict would end and politicians would tell the truth. Unfortunately that has not been the case.

Questions about political theatre always overlook America's most powerful and effective political theatre, which is always thriving: the American musical. The politics is conservative but, to my mind, effective and insidious.

I remember Stanley Benn remarking that one needed to be a certain age to engage with problems in political philosophy - I think he had in mind a certain breadth of understanding and experience - and so my political interests developed more slowly than the others.

I see ethical considerations as having a certain priority in our interactions - passing judgment on our political and legal processes.

The experience of being disastrously wrong is salutary, no economist should be denied it, and not many are.

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Increasingly in recent times we have come first to identify the remedy that is most agreeable, most convenient, most in accord with major pecuniary or political interest, the one that reflects our available faculty for action; then we move from the remedy so available or desired back to a cause to which that remedy is relevant.

The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt.

Leadership is more important than people's political career at times.

I was listening to this interview with fiction writer George Saunders the other day, and he said something about how the role of a writer is to build a more detailed world. I think it applies to what Gord Downie is doing with his body of work, which is to build a more detailed world and there's something really political about that.

The golden rule has no place in a political campaign.

In Germany there's something about rock music much more political than it really is - like everything you were doing was an indictment of the American culture. I read an interview with one of the members of Sebadoh. He was saying he had just got back from touring Germany for the first time in five years or whatever, and one of the interviewers asked him, "Why aren't you still relevant?"

It's pretty standard fare in political discourse. You misconstrue what somebody said. You isolate a statement, you lend your interpretation to it and then feign moral outrage. And Democrats have been doing it for years.

I think that all of the cyber attacks that are taking place, but particularly this - the Russian one, had a profound impact on the American system, on our political process, on our - it invaded the space of our election. The releasing on a regular basis of one party's stolen emails had an impact, and I think that other things also had an impact.