Political Quotes - Page 52

Our political debates today are corrosive and not reflective of the belief that Abe Lincoln espoused back in his day: that we are a great country because we are a good country.

Because of my political views, I've been targeted as a lightning rod, someone who's too far out there.

Getting fit is a political act - you are taking charge of your life.

I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.

I'm a far cry from politically correct, because I don't really care what the political views are. I don't care what the people say. I'll say my opinion. That will always make you controversial.

I've always been a searcher, you know, a hunter. I'm certainly not the only one. They say actors shouldn't get political and everything, but you can't separate yourself. You can't disconnect yourself from anything.

Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.

The only quality needed for an MP is the ability to write a good letter.

The God of Exodus is the God of history and of political liberation more than he is the God of nature.

I just don't accept midgets as human beings. There's only so much political correctness I can accept.

All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.

In a well-functioning democracy, citizens have the option of voting their political masters out of office. Not so in most companies.

The state itself becomes more and more identified with the interests of those who run things than with the interests of the people in general.

I was a man who was lucky enough to have discovered a political theory, a man who was caught up in the whirlpool of Cuba's political crisis...; discovering Marxism...was like finding a map in the forest.

A war not only arises, but derives its nature , from the political ideas, the moral sentiments, and the international relations obtaining at the moment when it breaks out. This amounts to saying:;: try and know why and with the help of what you are going to act; then you will find out how to act.

The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him.

A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.

I really only respect the Arab culture. I ain't really trying to pay no attention to, ya know, these little people in political positions and executive positions that ain't Arab culture oriented people because a lot of the times, what are you really showing all of this concern for?

Our modern lifestyle is not a political creation. Before 1700, everybody was poor as hell. Life was short and brutish. It wasn't because we didn't have good politicians; we had some really good politicians. But then we started inventing - electricity, steam engines, microprocessors, understanding genetics and medicine and things like that. Yes, stability and education are important - I'm not taking anything away from that - but innovation is the real driver of progress.

Creation comes before distribution -- or there will be nothing to distribute.

I do not respect the Dalai Lama. He's a political power broker. The Dalai Lama is not honorable to me.

It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.

Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it.

Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.