Political Quotes - Page 97

If I would want to have a huge audience, I would make American movies, not French movies, because there is a limit of course with French language. If I prefer to shoot in my own language, it is to play with my language, to play in my Paris, and I have complete freedom in France. It's so amazing. If American directors could imagine how free I am, they would have asked for political asylum immediately.

Political rivals attacked me. I was savagely beaten. I was kicked in the face and I lost my eye as a result.

They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another'; a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory.

The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.

Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.

Now the sole remedy for the abuse of political power is to limit it; but when politics corrupt business, modern reformers invariably demand the enlargement of the political power.

The great merit of gold is precisely that it is scarce; that its quantity is limited by nature; that it is costly to discover, to mine, and to process; and that it cannot be created by political fiat or caprice.

The only motive that can keep politics pure is the motive of doing good for one's country and its people.

Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.

This generation, raised on "Eyewitness News," conditioned by the instant replay, and spared the illumination that comes from tedious historical study, tends to be even more ahistorical than most.

It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.

I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.

Politicians are notoriously economically illiterate. And even when they know what would be the right thing, we don't really expect them to do it.

THE REAL PURPOSE OF HOLOCAUST REVISIONISM IS TO MAKE NATIONAL SOCIALISM AN ACCEPTABLE POLITICAL ALTERNATIVE AGAIN.

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.

the rule of Nobody ... is what the political form known as bureaucracy truly is.

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.

A tin horn politician with the manner of a rural corn doctor and the mien of a ham actor

I was an anti-communist before I was political in other ways.

He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.

Majority of the African countries are now enjoying stable governance. Before you talk about economic growth, political stability is key.

When someone who wields political power does something you dislike or disagree with, it's incumbent upon you to object, criticize, and demand a different course. Those who refuse to do so are abdicating the most basic duty of citizenship and rendering themselves impotent.

The political topicality of my October paintings means almost nothing to me, but in many reviews it is the first or only thing that arouses interest, and the response to the pictures varies according to current political circumstance. I find this rather a distraction.

We ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent and susceptible minds, from being too strongly, and too early prepossessed in favor of other political systems, before they are capable of appreciating their own.