Political Quotes - Page 254

Americans tend not to distinguish between political rhetoric and real intentions, which can lead to great misunderstanding.

The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done.

A lot of artists say, I'm not political. People are afraid of this word.

I want to be the president for all Americans, regardless of your political beliefs, where you come from, what you look like, your religion.

I'm very proud that I was a Goldwater Girl. And then my political beliefs changed over time.

I made policy decisions based on what I thought was right that keep Americans safe and to protect U.S. interests abroad. No wild political attacks by Donald Trump is going to change that.

Before it was emails, it was Benghazi, and the Republicans were stirring up so much controversy about that. And I testified for 11 hours, answered their questions. They basically said yeah, didn't get her. We tried. That was all a political ploy.

I don't think you could find any person in political life today who has been subjected to more attacks and had more money spent against her by special interests, among whom you have named a few, than I.

Look at what I've done my entire life. I have been working on behalf of civil rights, women's rights, human rights for years and I know how challenging it is to change our political system and I have the highest regard for those who have put themselves on the line.

The need for peace in Northern Ireland goes well beyond political stability. It now speaks to regional Europe and even global stability.

Acting alone, minorities can never achieve the majorities necessary for political change.

I've been really at the highest levels of American political life.

I feel like my political beliefs are rooted in the conservatism that I was raised with.

What is it we are hating? It goes beyond politics. I suppose that my fascination with [Margaret Thatcher] is not just with her political record but with her as a phenomenon.

Those peculiar social sensibilities nourished by our own peculiar political principles, while they enhance the true dignity of a prosperous American, do but minister to the added wretchedness of the unfortunate; first, by prohibiting their acceptance of what little random relief charity may offer; and, second, by furnishing them with the keenest appreciation of the smarting distinction between their ideal of universal equality and their grind-stone experience of the practical misery and infamy of poverty.

No, Blitz. That's oversimplifying it.

Our mass media have little difficulty in selling particular interests as those of all sensible men. The political needs of society become individual needs and aspirations, their satisfaction promotes business and the commonweal, and the whole appeals to be the very embodiment of Reason.

Liberalism should be found not striving to spread bureaucracy but striving to set bounds to it. True liberalism seeks all legitimate freedom first in the confident belief that without such freedom the pursuit of all other blessings and benefits is vain. That belief is the foundation of all American progress, political as well as economic.

... after you have once ridden behind a motorcycle escort, you are never the same again

The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.

The essential nature of a democracy compels it to insist that individual power of all kinds, political, economic, or intellectual, shall not be perversely and irresponsibly exercised.

An excessive preponderance of an idealistic mood is harmful to society: it creates daydreaming, political Don Quixotism, hope for heavenly intervention. This is an undeniable truth--but it is also true that every extreme is harmful.

Americans are sick and tired of political gamesmanship.

It is probably safe to say that over a long period of time, political morality has been as high as business morality.

The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.