Political Quotes - Page 26

Illegality will never solve the problem of political lawlessness.

I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.

The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.

I think of feminism as more of a political ideology.

But I really resist categories – that naming is a closing down of meaning. Women's art, political art – those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I'm resistant to. But I absolutely define myself as a feminist.

We have no political prisons. We have political internal exiles.

The freedoms which had been so hard won from colonial domination were being crushed by Soviet-inspired and funded military and political forces. Their clear intention was to deprive the people of their democratic freedoms. As history shows, this is what had happened in the Soviet Union and in Cuba, and continues to be the case in other parts of the world.

Self-regulation stands in relation to regulation the way self-importance stands in relation to importance.

There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.

There is nothing that politicians like better than handing out benefits to be paid for by someone else.

When women turn on women, and take cheap shots at their decisions purely to score political points it serves as proof that feminism, as a movement, is dead and no longer relevant or credible.

Terrorists in 6 weeks have been able to command 300 million North Americans to do away with the entirety of their civil liberties that took 700 years to advance from the Magna Carta onward. The terrorists have already won the political and ideological war with one terrorist act. It is mindboggling that we are that weak as a society.

I think the minimum wage will be the centerpiece of the State of Union. I think it should be the centerpiece of the State of the Union. And it should be very focused on that because, as you said, Republicans in the rest of the country are for it.

Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.

Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions.

Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.

Be proud to be a decent American rather than a wanker whipping up fear.

I feel sometimes constrained by the expectation that the work should be solely political. I try to create a type of work that is at the service of my own set of criteria, which have to do with beauty and a type of utopia that in some ways speaks to the culture I'm located in.

Being a part of a political party is something like being a partner in a marriage - work at it and stay loyal to it, and when you can't stomach it any longer, leave it.

As a minister, you shouldn't imagine you know better than the technical experts in your ministry. In the end you're there to apply the political stamp of approval.

Nothing becomes reality in the political life of a nation that was not present in its literature as spirit.

I think the time is right for organizing and to give Blacks more political - the progressive Blacks, you have to make a distinction - participation, more Blacks in more authoritative positions, in more electoral political positions. But we want the right ones.

We have now an American political party and a European one. Not all Americans who vote for the European party want to become Europeans. But it doesn't matter because that's what they're voting for. They're voting for dependency, for lack of ambition, and for insolvency.

The tea party venerates the Constitution while despising the political system it has produced.