Political Quotes - Page 83

As to my political faith- I have never voted. My father was a Democrat, my mother a Republican, and I am an Episcopalian.

Men still have to be governed by deception.

To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.

I was never informed in advance about the start of the war or about foreign political developments.

The nation demands a movement which has written upon its banner the internal and external national freedom that it will act as if it were the spiritual, social and political conscience of the nation.

I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.

I never forget that I live in a house owned by all the American people and that I have been given their trust.

One thing that makes France different from other countries is the tradition of social solidarity. People from all backgrounds and political positions are willing to contribute for services and protection of society as a whole - but on the condition that money is being spent effectively and that everyone is paying their part.

The accretion of dangerous power does not come in a day. It does come, however slowly, from the generative force of unchecked disregard of the restrictions that fence in even the most disinterested assertion of authority.

When the United States was in control of counternarcotics, the US governments used drug trafficking for purely geopolitical purposes .... The US uses drug trafficking and terrorism for political control .... We have nationalised the fight against drug trafficking.

The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative.

Feminism is a belief that although women and men are inherently of equal worth, most societies privilege men as a group. As a result, social movements are necessary to achieve political equality between women and men, with the understanding that gender always intersects with other social hierarchies.

Donald Trump's fought maybe the greatest political machine in the history of the world.

In scientific matters there was a common language and one standard of values; in moral and political problems there were many. … Furthermore, in science there is a court of last resort, experiment, which is unavailable in human affairs.

Feminism has led the way in demystifying personal relations, forcefully insisting they are political to the core.

The things you refuse to meet today always come back at you later on, usually under circumstances which make the decision twice as difficult as it originally was.

All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if only for an hour.

Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

I don't want to be disrespectful of the president of the United States, but as a political person, one of the things I appreciated about this president, in the past year especially, is he is a fantastic candidate.

Politics are not the task of a Christian.

Embryonic stem cell research wears no political stripes - it is embraced by conservatives, liberals, Democrats, Republicans, and Independents.

And though the philosopher may live remote from business, the genius of philosophy, if carefully cultivated by several, must gradually diffuse itself throughout the whole society, and bestow a similar correctness on every art and calling.

When the American people look at the political process play out, they hear all the spinning and all the doctrinaire language, and they still walk away with the belief that they're not being represented in Congress, that there's no trust in the executive branch.

Obama has not accomplished a key mission: sell his own successes and keep his own (political) troops fired up and ready to go.