Political Quotes - Page 7

You have to know the past to understand the present.

We need to change the power structure in America, we need to end the political oligarchy.

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

Subversive, ethical, ecological, political, humorous ... this is how I see my duty as a designer.

I have made it clear that future candidates need to be completely understanding that they will be expected to vote pro-choice on any bills.

This we must say, that everything is economics and economic interest as mere satisfaction of physical needs had, have and always will have a subordinate role in a normal human, that beyond this sphere must be differentiated from an order of higher values, political , spiritual and heroic.

A well informed public opinion is essential to the growth of political and social awareness. Only he who is informed can comment intelligently on his nation's development and only by such comments can errors be corrected and progress stimulated

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

Never complain and never explain.

Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.

The [Liberal] federal government's trouble is that they have a wishbone where they should have a backbone.

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.

For those of you who don't understand Reaganomics, it's based on the principle that the rich and the poor will get the same amount of ice. In Reaganomics, however, the poor get all of theirs in winter.

Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.

If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you're half-way to a dictatorship.

Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere.

The debates are part of the unconscionable fraud that our political campaigns have become a format that defies meaningful discourse. They should be charged with sabotaging the electoral process.

A man said to the universe: 'Sir, I exist!' 'However,' replied the universe. 'The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.

Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. Its purpose should be the revival of a working economy in the world so as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

Ethnic differences exist; of course they exist on the African continent. They are not necessarily political differences, however. They don't necessarily cause people to kill each other. They become so-called 'tribalism' when they are politicized in a particular framework. And in post-independence Africa they have been politicized largely by sections of the so-called African elite.

The realization of New Africa can only be possible by the African cultivating spiritual balance, which leads to the practicalization of social regeneration, to realizing economic determination, becoming mentally emancipated, and ushering in a political resurgence.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

The rich will strive to establish their dominion and enslave the rest. They always did...they always will. They will have the same effect here as elsewhere, if we do not, by the power of government, keep them in their proper spheres.