Political Quotes - Page 95

I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning.

We see pluralism: We can see that there are different ideological and political positions in Russia. If the authoritarianism finally ends, we will have real competition.

If Abu Nidal is a terrorist, then so is George Washington.

The nation no longer stands for the enlightenment tradition, but rather for military-political hegemony and the total commodification of life.

As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office.

The elections are the greatest symbol of participation and political reform.

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.

If you do not force political freedom, economic freedom will be stymied sooner or later.

I hope I make films where you walk away . . . with work to do, arguments to have, things to worry about, things to care about. In that sense, I would regard what I do as political.

I'm not a Republican because I grew up rich, but because I didn't want to spend the rest of my life poor, waiting for the government to rescue me.

The only true allegiance a politician has is to his own re-election.

U.N. Women was created due to the acknowledgement that gender equality and women's empowerment was still, despite progress, far from what it should be. Transforming political will and decisions, such as the Member States creating U.N. Women, into concrete steps towards gender equality and women's empowerment, I think is one of the main challenges.

Even though the crime rate has dropped in recent years, the United States has more police per capita then any other nation in the world.

The most powerful ideologies are not those that prevail against all challengers but those that are never challenged because in their ubiquity they appear as nothing more than the unadorned truth.

The guiding principle of ruling elites was--and still is: When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed.

Hollywood desires money but they could not stand the political content.

The politician is an acrobat. He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does.

Let others make war, you happy Austria marry, for kingdoms given to others by Mars, Venus will give to you.

The big problem is to find suitable hats. I don't care for them all that much, but you have to wear them in politics.

Where two Greeks are gathered together, there will be at least three political parties represented, and possibly more.

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.

Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.

Do the rhetorical quarrels of bourgeois political parties have anything to do with the interests of the humble and downtrodden?

I wish you would stop and seriously consider, as a broad and long-term feminist political strategy, the conversion of women to a woman-identified and woman-directed sexuality and eroticism, as a way of breaking the grip of men on women's minds and women's bodies, of removing women from the chronic attachment to the primary situations of sexual and physical violence that is rained upon women by men, and as a way of promoting women's firm and reliable bonding against oppression. . . .

We, the monarchs, are undoubtedly constants in a constantly changing world. Because we have always been there, but also because we do not get involved in everyday politics. We are aware of the political changes in our societies, but we don't comment on them. This is where we assume a unique position.