Political Quotes - Page 63

Believe me, the intellectual revolution is going on, and that has to come first before you see the political changes. That's where I'm very optimistic.

The political establishment, they don't know what to do about Trump because they said, oh, the immigration thing will kill him. First, they said he'll never run, and then he ran. Then they said he'll never file his financial disclosures. He filed and on time. Then they said, he's going to fall flat on his face.

If Communism goes, I've still got the U.S. House of Representatives.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

You show me a polluter, I'll show you a subsidy. I'll show you a fat cat using political clout to escape the discipline of the free market and force the public to pay his production costs.

We will reverse course on the heavy hand of regulation, discarding Dodd-Frank and any other regulations that advance a political agenda at the expense of jobs and investment on Main Street.

The Democratic Party is the party that opened its arms. We opened them to every nationality, every creed. We opened them to the immigrants. The Democratic Party is the party of the people.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.

Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it's how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.

What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism.

Globalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support.

The stimulus was a case of political patronage, corporate welfare, and cronyism at their worst.

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.

It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.

It's all very well for us to sit here in the west with our high incomes and cushy lives, and say it's immoral to violate the sovereignty of another state. But if the effect of that is to bring people in that country economic and political freedom, to raise their standard of living, to increase their life expectancy, then don't rule it out.

What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If voters care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots.

I am a great believer in planning- economic, social, political, military, total world planning.

My father was not a political animal.

Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy civic-military and political-military relationships.

I almost became a political journalist, having worked as a reporter at the time of Watergate. The proximity to those events motivated me, when I wound up doing philosophy, to try to use it to move the public debate.

Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.

Perhaps...the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

We shall never change our political leaders until we change the people who elect them.