Political Quotes - Page 47

Are we prepared to take on the enormous political power of the billionaire class or do we continue to slide into economic and political oligarchy?

It's important that the drivers stay together, because in difficult moments we have each other. If we are not together the financial and political interests of the organisers and constructors come to the fore.

It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.

The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single greater whole.

I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong

As for Hitler, his professed religion unhesitatingly juxtaposed the God-Providence and Valhalla. Actually his god was an argument at a political meeting and a manner of reaching an impressive climax at the end of speeches.

Our flag is not just one of many political points of view. Rather, the flag is a symbol of our national unity.

The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.

It is not what your supporters, friends or your political adversaries call you that matters. What is important is what you think you must do in the interests of the country, which put you in such position, such post as the Head of the Russian State.

To my mind this makes psychedelics central to any political reconstruction, because these are the only force in nature that actually dissolve linguistics structures; lets the mechanics of syntax to be visible, allows the possibility for rapid introduction and spread of new concepts; gives permission for new ways of seeing; and this is what we have to do, we have to change our minds.

Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.

One might plausibly contend that Congress violates the spirit, if not the letter, of the constitutional doctrine of separation of powers when it exonerates itself from the impositions of the laws it obligates people outside the legislature to obey.

Modern candidates seem to have to live with political matters all the time. In my father's time, a politician's home was still his castle.

In a land of freedom we are held hostage by the tyranny of political correctness.

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

The worst thing a politician can be is dull. At least I'm interesting.

Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.

The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.

We in the West must bear in mind that the poor countries are poor primarily because we have exploited them through political or economic colonialism.

It is not the business of politicians to please everyone.

It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world.

If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage.

I don't think that what's going on in Bosnia is political activity. It's partly political, but it's partly atavistic as well.

Why would you want to be politically correct when you can be right?

Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.